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.
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