ISLAMABAD: Speakers at and advocacy session "Are Registered Afghans Living in Pakistan 'Refugees in the real sense?'"
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organised by Community Appraisal and Motivation Programme (CAMP) on Thursday said the term "refugee" did not reflect the actual legal status of the Afghans living in Pakistan.
CAMP recently launched a baseline research report titled "Legal Status in Pakistan for Registered Afghans", which deals with the legal status of the registered Afghans in Pakistan. Some of the issues addressed in this study include evolution of their legal status over time; the international human rights and domestic legal and institutional framework governing them as non citizens in the absence of refugee law; their experiences in the Pakistani legal system, the types of remedies they have pursued for their problems and their sources of information on the law.
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