Assistance to Student Refugees in Southern Africa

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1984.

What other versions does this mandate have?

11 versions · 1981–1991

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/45/171

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1991	A/RES/45/171	Assistance to student refugees in southern Africa	—	—
1990	A/RES/44/157	Assistance to student refugees in southern Africa	—	—
1989	A/RES/43/149	Assistance to student refugees in southern Africa	—	—
1988	A/RES/42/138	Assistance to student refugees in southern Africa	670	76%Compare
1987	A/RES/41/136	Assistance to student refugees in southern Africa	634	92%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

8 subjects

Botswana Eswatini Lesotho Refugee Assistance South African Refugees Southern Africa Student Refugees Zambia

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

Conscious of thc burden placed on the limited ti.nancial, material and administrative resources ofthe host countrics bv thc incrcasing num bcr of student refugees,

.tppreciat111g thc efforts ofthe host countries to deal with their student rcfugce populations. with thc assistance of thc international rnmmunity.

L /,'ndorscs the assessments and recommcndations contained in the rcport of the Secretary-General and commcnds him and the lJnited Nations High Commissioncr for Refugecs for their efforts to mobilize resourccs and organize the programme of assistance for student rcfugecs in thc host countries of southern Africa:

Hxpresscs 1/s apprcciation to the Governments of Botswana, Lesotho. Swaziland and Zambia for granting asylum and making educational and other facilities available to the student refugees. in spitc of thc pressure which thc continuing in flux of those rcfugces cxerts on facilities 111 thcir countric,

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A/so expresses its apprccwlion to the Govemments of Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Zambia for the cooperation which they have extended to the Secretary- General and to the High Commissioner on mattcr\ conceming the welfare of those refugccs:

Notes with appr<'Ciation thc financia] and material support provided for the studcnt refugccs by Membcr States, the Office of thc Unitcd Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, other bodics of the U nitcd Nations system and intergovemmental and non-governmental organizations;

Requests the Sccretary-(jcncral. in co-operation with the High Commissioner, to continue to organize and implement an effective programmc of cducational and other appropriate assistancc for 5tudcnt refugccs from Namibia and South Africa who havc taken asylum in Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Zambia:

Urges ali Member States and intcrgovcrnmcntal and non-govemmental organizations to continuc contributing generously to the assistancc programmcs for student refugees, through financia] support of thc regular programmcs ofthe High Commissioner. ofthc projects identified in thc report of the Secretary-General and of the projects and programmes, including unfunded projccts, which will be submitted to the Second lntcmational Confercncc on Assistance to Refugees in Africa, to be held at Gcneva in July 1984:

A/so urges ali Member States and ali intcrgovernmental and non-govcmmental organizations to assist thc countries of asylum materially and othcrwisc to cnablc them to continue to discharge thcir humanitarian obligations towards refugees:

Appeals to the Office of the Unitcd Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. the United Nations Dcvelopment Programme and the United Nations EducationaL Scientific and Cultural Organization. as well as other international and non-govemmental organizations. to continue providing humanitarian and development assistancc to expedite the settlement of student refugees from South Africa who have been granted asylum in Botswana. Lesotho. Swaziland and Zambia:

Calls upon ali agencies and programmes of the United Nations system to continue co-operating with the Secretary-General and the High Commissioner in the implementation of humanitarian programmes of assistance for the student refugees in southern Africa:

Requests the High Commissioner, in eo-operation with the Secretary-General, to continue to keep the mattcr under review, to apprise the Economic and Social Council, at its second regular session of 1984, ofthc current status of the programmes and to report to the General Assembly at its thirty-ninth session on the implementation of the present resolution.

100th plcnar_1' meeting

16 Dcccmhcr 1983

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97 Resolu!Ion 217 A (111).

9"See l:CN.4,l'!X.14-t·:C,..\Suh.~ l4X.'4\ ami Corr.l. ,·hap '\XI. 98Resolution 2200 A (XXII. annex.

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