| A legislative initiative was signed on 7 October 2004 by the Chairman of the Parliamentary Commission on Human Rights and by a group of Members of Parliament to amend the Law on the Status of Refugees with a view to introduce complementary forms of protection and aligning some existing provisions with the norms of international law.
The proposed amendment put forward by UNHCR in close co-operation with the Parliamentary Commission on Human Rights, the Migration Department and the Main Directorate for Refugees concerned introduction of Humanitarian Protection as a form of complementary protection and adjustment of the provisions on additional exclusion and cancellation clauses which go beyond the 1951 Convention. |