المركز القانوني للاجئين في القانون الدولي الخاص

Abstract EN

The concept of asylum developed with the development of international protection for refugees.

As it was initially limited in the 1951 Refugee Convention to the events that occurred before January 1951, and this time limitation was abolished in the protocol of the agreement in 1967.

Moreover, the African Asylum Convention of 1969 expanded the concept of asylum to include refugees from the Partial or total occupation, or external aggression and victims of environmental hazards.

The Refugee Convention has stipulated special provisions for the entry of refugees and its application is an exception to the law of entry of aliens.

Under the Refugee Convention, the refugee enjoys rights that sometimes he is like an ordinary alien, and at other times it guarantees him treatment better than that prescribed for them.

As refugees are exempted from the condition of reciprocity and from being subject to the measures taken by the state against the persons and funds of the nationals of the state to which they belong by their nationality, the issuance of personal documents and passports, the transfer of funds, and the non punishment of the refugee for entering the territory or staying in it illegally if certain conditions are met, and equating in a third category between the refugee and the nationals of the host state "the principle of national treatment".

In a fourth case, it stipulated the principle of the most favored nation where refugees enjoy the best care accorded to the best sponsoring state in the host country.

These provisions are limitations on the state’s authority to regulate the rights of foreigners, but the application of the Refugee Convention is very weak.

The Refugee Convention provides provisions for the expulsion of foreigners and these provisions are restrictions on the state’s authority to remove Foreigners.

there is no asylum law in Egypt, and therefore the international convention on refugees must be applied in priority to the laws regulating the status of foreigners.