A series of resolutions aimed at providing greater assistance and protection to migrants was adopted here today at the third conference of non-governmental organizations interested in migration.
A resolution adopted today called on the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and other interested inter-governmental agencies to cooperate in the removal of difficulties encountered by refugees in obtaining immigration visas because of minor offenses committed under wartime conditions.
A second resolution called for concerted action to remove obstacles in the way of refugees belonging to professional groups who are blocked from obtaining permits to practice their professions in the country of resettlement.
A third resolution called on governments which have not yet ratified the convention on refugees which was approved in 1951 to do so as quickly as possible so that the convention may enter into effect in as many countries as possible.
The conference also called on the UN. and specialized agencies to prepare a compilation of the basic national laws and regulations of major countries of immigration on the admissability of migrants. It proposed that its interim committee arrange for a comparative analysis of these laws. The conference also asked the International Labor Organization to study establishment of service to supply information to the non-governmental organizations.
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