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On the interpretation and application of Article 1F(a) of the 1951 Convention.

This paper's overall purpose is to identify the current gaps in protection mechanisms for trafficked persons, particularly trafficked children, as well as ways to address these lacunae. The study provides background research and information on three connected issues: i) the protection challenges that arise out of existing state mechanisms for identifying trafficked persons; ii) the establishment of a national referral system that guarantees assessment of the needs for international protection of persons identified as trafficked (including their entitlement to protection against refoulement under international refugee and/or human rights law); and iii) procedures adopted to address the special protection needs of trafficked children.

This paper considers the potential contribution that regularized labour migration could make to UNHCR's understandings of durable solutions for refugees. It considers the limits of the three traditional durable solutions. It also looks into the potential benefits regularised labour migration could offer to UNHCR's durable solutions framework. Further, it considers the obstacles to the implementation of solutions base on regularised labour, particularly state resistance and the susceptibility of such labour migrants to fluctuations in economic demand.

This paper centres on two main substantive parts: one on displacement and gender equality, the other on the right to a nationality, questions of statelessness and gender equality. These parts explain the many facets of the gender dimensions of and influences on displacement and statelessness, drawing out the impact of gender inequality on women’s access to and enjoyment of their human rights in these contexts and identifying relevant CEDAW provisions at issue and how they apply.