To link to this article, copy this persistent link: (Jul 02,
2008) Twenty-eight years after acceding to the United Nations
Convention on Refugees, on June 5, 2008, Nicaragua approved the
Law on Protection of Refugees. The legislature passed the Law by
a nearly unanimous vote. The Law mandates the creation of a
National Commission for Refugees (CONAR), which will be in
charge of studying each application and granting the status of
"refugee" to those persons it considers meet the legal
requirements. The representative of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees for Mexico, Central America, and the
Caribbean, Kevin Allen, stated that the new Nicaraguan statute
is one of the most modern in the region. He pointed out the
importance for the country to finally have a legal framework
regulating the status of refugees. (Ary Pantoja, Aprueban Ley de
Protección a Refugiados, EL NUEVO DIARIO, June 3, 2008,
available at http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni.) |Author:||Norma
Gutierrez More by this author| |Topic:||Immi