is important that each claim is assessed and that both types of status are explicitly recognized.88 49. Best State practice ensures that Palestinian refugees recognised under Article 1D are properly recorded and separately registered in national asylum statistics. E. Regional refugee instruments 50. Palestinian refugees are, like all other asylum applicants, entitled to apply for refugee status pursuant to any applicable regional refugee instruments, should they be in countries in which these apply.89 F. Refugee status and subsidiary or complementary protection 51. Palestinians found not to fall within the scope of Article 1D could have their claims for protection considered under Article 1A(2). Should they not fall within either provision, they are entitled, like all other asylum applicants, for any national or regional forms of subsidiary or complementary protection; and also to benefit from protection under international human rights law. 88 UNHCR, Handbook on Protection of Stateless Persons, 30 June 2014, http://www.refworld.org/docid/53b676aa4.html, para. 78. 89 See, Organization of African Unity, Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa, 10 September 1969, 1001 UNTS 45, http://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6b36018.html; Cartagena Declaration on Refugees, Colloquium on the International Protection of Refugees in Central America, Mexico and Panama, 22 November 1984, http://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6b36ec.html. 20

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