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75 years after its adoption, the Refugee Convention remains as critical as ever for the protection of refugee and asylum-seeker rights: UN, IACHR and regional human rights experts

GENEVA (24 June 2026) – In commemoration of World Refugee Day, the Platform of Independent Experts on Refugee Rights (PIERR), a group of independent UN and regional human rights experts, marks this 75th anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention and recalls the critical importance of the Refugee Convention and other human rights instruments for the protection of refugees and asylum-seekers.

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European Commission Youth4Regions Programme 2026 for young aspiring journalists (Fully Funded to Brussels, Belgium)

Application Deadline: 7 July, 2026 23:59 CET. Applications are now open for the 2026 European Commission Youth4Regions Programme. Youth4Regions is the European Commission programme helping journalism students and young journalists to discover what the EU is doing in regions. The Youth4Regions journalism competition invites young aspiring journalists to submit original works on projects co-funded by...

Opportunities For Africans·12h ago·1m
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