Assistance to Student Refugees in Southern Africa

A/RES/41/136View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1987.

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?

12 subjects

Botswana Educational Assistance Eswatini Inter-Agency Cooperation Lesotho Namibian Refugees Refugee Assistance South African Refugees Southern Africa Student Refugees Territorial Asylum Zambia

What’s in this document?

10 operative paragraphs

Takes note with satisfaction of the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees;

Expresses its appreciatio'n to the Governments of Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Zambia for granting asylum and making educational and other facilities available to the student refugees, in spite of the pressure which the continuing influx of those refugees exerts on facilities in their countries;

Also expresses its appreciation to the Governments of Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Zambia for the cooperation which they have extended to the High Commissioner on matters concerning the welfare of these refugees;

Notes with appreciation the financial and material support provided for the student refugees by Member

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States, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, other bodies of the United Nations system and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations;

Requests the High Commissioner, in co-operation with the Secretary-General, to continue to organize and implement an effective programme of educational and other appropriate assistance for student refugees from Namibia and South Africa who have been granted asylum in Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Zambia;

Urges ali Member States and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to continue contributing generously to the assistance programme for student refugees, through financia! support of the regular programmes of the High Commissioner and of the projects and programmes, including unfunded projects, which were submitted to the Second International Conference on Assistance to Refugees in Africa, 124 held at Geneva from 9 to 11 July 1984;

A/so urges ali Member States and ali intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to assist the countries of asylum materially and otherwise to enable them to continue to discharge their humanitarian obligations towards refugees;

Appeals to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the United Nations Development Programme and ali other competent United Nations bodies, as well as other international and nongovernmental organizations, to continue providing humanitarian and development assistance so as to facilitate and expedite the settlement of student refugees from South Africa and Namibia who have been granted asylum in Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Zambia;

Calls upan 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 co-operation with the Secretary-General, to continue to keep the matter under review, to apprise the Economic and Social Council, at its second regular session of 1987, of the current status ofthe programmes and to report to the General Assembly at its forty-second session on the implementation of the present resolution.

120A/41/511. 121 Resolution 3452 (XXX), annex. 122 A/41/706.

121 A/41/55.1

124 See A/CONF.125/1, para. 3l 125 A/41/515.

lch A/41/514

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