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{{Infobox treaty
| name                =Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees
| long_name           =
| image               =Refugeeconvention.PNG
| image_width         =300px
| caption             ={{legend|#00ff00|parties to only the 1951 Convention}}
{{legend|#ffff00|parties to only the 1967 Protocol}}
{{legend|#007500|parties to both}}
{{legend|#b2b2b2|non-members}}
| type                =
| date_drafted        =
| date_signed         =31 January 1967
| location_signed     =New York
| date_sealed         =
| date_effective      =4 October 1967
| condition_effective =
| date_expiration     =
| signatories         =19
| parties             =Convention: 145<ref name=convrat>{{cite web|url=http://treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDetailsII.aspx?&src=UNTSONLINE&mtdsg_no=V~2&chapter=5&Temp=mtdsg2&lang=en#Participants|title=Chapter V – Refugees and Stateless Persons|date=22 July 2013|accessdate=22 July 2013|publisher=[[United Nations Treaty Series]]}}</ref><br />Protocol: 146<ref name=convrat />
| ratifiers           =
| depositor           =[[Secretary-General of the United Nations]]
| language            =
| languages           =English and French <br><small>(Chinese, Russian and Spanish)</small>
| wikisource          =
}}

The '''Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees''' is a key treaty in international [[refugee law]] which entered into force on 4 October 1967. 146 countries are parties to the Protocol.

Where the 1951 [[United Nations]] [[Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees]] had restricted refugee status to those whose circumstances had come about "as a result of events occurring before 1 January 1951", as well as giving States party to the Convention the option of interpreting this as "events occurring in Europe" or "events occurring in Europe or elsewhere", the 1967 Protocol removed both the temporal and geographic restrictions. This was needed in the historical context of refugee flows resulting from decolonization. However, the Protocol gave those [[sovereign state|states]] which had previously ratified the 1951 Convention and chosen to use the geographically restricted definition the option to retain that restriction.

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://legal.un.org/avl/ha/prsr/prsr.html Introductory note] by [[Guy Goodwin-Gill|Guy S. Goodwin-Gill]], procedural history note and audiovisual material on the ''Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees'' in the [http://legal.un.org/avl/historicarchives.html Historic Archives of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law]
* [http://legal.un.org/avl/ls/Goodwin-Gill_IML.html Lectures] by [[Guy Goodwin-Gill|Guy S. Goodwin-Gill]] entitled ''International Migration Law  – A General Introduction'' and ''Forced Migration – The Evolution of International Refugee Law and Organization'' in the [http://legal.un.org/avl/lectureseries.html Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law]
* [http://www.unhcr.org/protection/basic/3b73b0d63/states-parties-1951-convention-its-1967-protocol.html Ratifications]
* [http://www.unhcr.org/3b66c2aa10.html Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees of 31 January 1967 - English text]

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