The two ket human rights standards linked to refugee protection are the right to seek and enjoy asylum as guaranteed in the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and the non-discrimination principle as embodied in Article 26 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and the 1951 Refugee Convention. Whereas the right to seek asylum grants the possibility to access another territory and thereby, in principle, offers a safe haven from persecutors, the prohibition against discrimination constitutes an important precondition of real protection in the country of refuge. In any protection regime, these two elements will be the core of the analysis.

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