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McGill Law Journal ~ Revue de droit de McGill THE 1969 AFRICAN REFUGEE CONVENTION: INNOVATIONS , MISCONCEPTIONS , AND OMISSIONS Marina Sharpe* * D.Phil. candidate and Trudeau Scholar, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. The au- thor is grateful to Professor Guy Goodwin-Gill for his feedback on a draft of this paper and to two anonymous McGill Law Journal referees for their insightful comments. © Marina Sharpe 2012 Citation: (2012) 58:1 McGill LJ 95 ~ Référence : (2012) 58 : 1 RD McGill 95 This paper provides a critical overview of the 1969 African refugee convention, beginning with a survey of its legal innovations. It then addresses the most misunderstood of them—the unique refugee definition—in depth, with an emphasis on dispelling the common misconcep- tion that it is particularly expansive. Finally, it investigates the 1969 Convention’s silence re- garding refugees’ civil and political, and socio- economic rights, and how it works as the “re- gional complement” to the 1951 global refugee convention in that regard. Cet article donne un aperçu critique de la convention sur les réfugiés africains de 1969, débutant par un survol de ses innovations juri- diques. Il aborde ensuite la plus incomprise d'entre elles—son unique définition de réfugié— en profondeur, en mettant l'accent sur la dissi- pation de l'idée fausse, mais très répandue, que cette définition est particulièrement large. En- fin, l’article examine le silence de la Convention de 1969 sur les droits civils et politiques ainsi que socio-économiques des réfugiés, et la façon dont elle fonctionne comme le complément « ré- gional » à la convention mondiale des réfugiés de 1951 à cet égard.
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THE 1969 AFRICAN REFUGEE CONVENTION: INNOVATIONS, MISCONCEPTIONS, AND OMISSIONS

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