A House with Two Rooms - The Advocates for Human Rights

(LX) (1994). In its Resolution on Voluntary
Repatriation of African Refugees, the OAU called
upon Member States to “Launch a campaign to
encourage the refugees to return to their countries,
of their own free will…” Organization of African
Unity, Resolution on Voluntary Repatriation of
African Refugees, CM/Res.399 (XXIV) (1975).
In the Resolution on Africa Refugee Day, the
Organization also called upon States to “[a]ccept and
abide scrupulously by the international agreements
and the OAU Convention on Refugees, particularly
as regards the voluntary nature of repatriation…”
Organization of African Unity, Resolution on
Africa Refugee Day CM/Res.398 (XXIV) (1975).
In the Addis Ababa Document, the OAU called
upon States to “actively promote voluntary
repatriation, respect the principle of voluntariness in
repatriation…” Addis Ababa Document, supra note
20, rec. 5(ii).
70 African Charter, supra note 57, art. 12(2).
71 OAU Refugee Convention, supra note 9, art. 6.
72 Id. art. 6.
73 Id. art. 3 (describing prohibition of subversive
activities). Article 6 “Travel Documents” is subject
to the conditions set forth in Article 3 of the
convention. Id. at 6.
74 ICESCR, supra note 2, art. 13(2)(b).
75 The Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education,
Annual Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to
Education, Katarina Tomaševski, submitted pursuant to
Commission on
Human Rights resolution 2001/29, at 1, delivered
to the Economic and Social Council, U.N. Doc. E/
CN.4/2002/60 (Jan. 7, 2002).
76 Id. 32.
77 African Commission on Human and Peoples’
Rights, Resolution on Human Rights Education, /
Res.6(XIV)93, The African Commission on Human
and Peoples’ Rights meeting at its Fourteenth
Ordinary Session in Addis Ababa, 1 - 10 December,
1993 at 3 (1993).
78 U.N. High Comm’r for Refugees: Basic Facts, http://
www.unhcr.org/basics.html (last visited June 12,
2009).
79 1951 Refugee Convention, supra note 6.
80 U.N. High Comm’r for Refugees, Agenda for Protection
28 & 12, (3rd ed. 2003). See also Declaration,
African Parliamentary Conference: Refugees in
Africa: The Challenges of Protection and Solutions,
563
Appendix C
Cotonou, BENIN, 1-3 June 2004 [hereinafter
Refugees in Africa]. Full conference report including
Cotonou Declaration and Programme of Action
available at http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/
vtx/publ/opendoc.pdf?tbl=PUBL&id=425e7ab14.
81 Ninette Kelley, International Refugee Protection Challenges
and Opportunites, 19 int’l j. refugee l. 401, 415
(2007).
82 Id.
83 Id.