Mr. President. on September 30. the Committee on Foreign Relations reported the Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees to the Senate and recommended that the Senate advise and consent to its accession. As Laurence A. Dawson. Acting Deputy Director. Office of Refugees and Migration Affairs stated in his testimony before the committee: The protocol is a human rights document. The human rights which it covers for the refugees involved are of the most crucial and the most important type. They are literally the difference between life and death for many of them. They are in all cases the difference between the opportunity to live in dignity as a decent. selfsupporting. selfrespecting human being. or else in the absence of such opportunity. to languish in camps or otherwise in a state of dependency. At this time in world history when we are seeing refugees being created by various outbreaks of strife and tension. It is particularly important that the United States give its formal approval to provisions contained in this protocol for the protection of the human rights of refugees. One only has to look at the Middle East. Biafra.
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