d. Family Unity

  Treaties International International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 16 December 1966, 999 U.N.T.S. 171, Arts. 17, 23.Convention on the Rights of the Child, 20 November 1989, 1577 U.N.T.S. 3.Soft LawFinal Act of the United Nations Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Status of Refugees and Stateless Persons, 189 U.N.T.S. 37, 1951, Section IV B on the Principle of the Unity of the Family.UNHCR, ‘Handbook on Procedures and Criteria for Determining Refugee Status under the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees’, HCR/IP/4/Rev.1, 1979, paras. 181–188.UNHCR EXCOM, ‘Family Reunion’ Conclusion No. 9 (XXVIII), 1977.UNHCR EXCOM, ‘Family Reunification’ Conclusion No. 24 (XXXII), 1981UNHCR DocumentsUNHCR, ‘Agenda for Protection’, October 2003.UNHCR, ‘UNHCR Guidelines on Reunification of Refugee Families’, July 1983.UNHCR, ‘Global Consultations on International Protection, Geneva Expert Round Table’, 8–9 November 2001.ReadingsCoreK. Jastram, and K. Newland, ‘Family Unity and Refugee Protection’, in E. Feller, V. Türk, and F. Nicholson (eds), Refugee Protection in International Law: UNHCR’s Global Consultations on International Protection (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 555–603.