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14. Calls upon the international community, including States and the Office
of the High Commissioner and other relevant United Nations organizations, within
their respective mandates, to take concrete action to meet the protection and
assistance needs of refugees, returnees and displaced persons and to contribute
generously to projects and programmes aimed at alleviating their plight, facilitating
durable solutions for refugees and displaced persons and supporting vulnerable local
host communities;
15. Reaffirms the importance of timely and adequate assistance and
protection for refugees, returnees and displaced persons, also reaffirms that
assistance and protection are mutually reinforcing and that inadequate material
assistance and food shortages undermine protection, notes the importance of a
rights- and community-based approach in engaging constructively with individual
refugees, returnees and displaced persons and their communities so as to achieve
fair and equitable access to food and other forms of material assistance, and
expresses concern in regard to situations in which minimum standards of assistance
are not met, including those in which adequate needs assessments have yet to be
undertaken;
16. Also reaffirms that respect by States for their protection responsibilities
towards refugees is strengthened by international solidarity involving all members
of the international community and that the refugee protection regime is enhanced
through committed international cooperation in a spirit of solidarity and burden- and
responsibility-sharing among all States;
17. Further reaffirms that host States have the primary responsibility to
ensure the civilian and humanitarian character of asylum, calls upon States, in
cooperation with international organizations, within their mandates, to take all
measures necessary to ensure respect for the principles of refugee protection and, in
particular, to ensure that the civilian and humanitarian nature of refugee camps is
not compromised by the presence or the activities of armed elements or used for
purposes that are incompatible with their civilian character, and encourages the
High Commissioner to continue efforts, in consultation with States and other
relevant actors, to ensure the civilian and humanitarian character of camps;
18. Condemns all acts that pose a threat to the personal security and
well-being of refugees and asylum-seekers, such as refoulement, unlawful expulsion
and physical attacks, calls upon States of refuge, in cooperation with international
organizations, where appropriate, to take all measures necessary to ensure respect
for the principles of refugee protection, including the humane treatment of
asylum-seekers, notes with interest that the High Commissioner has continued to
take steps to encourage the development of measures to better ensure the civilian
and humanitarian character of asylum, and encourages the High Commissioner to
continue those efforts, in consultation with States and other relevant actors;
19. Deplores the continuing violence and insecurity which constitute an
ongoing threat to the safety and security of staff members of the Office of the High
Commissioner and other humanitarian organizations and an obstacle to the effective
fulfilment of the mandate of the Office and the ability of its implementing partners
and other humanitarian personnel to discharge their respective humanitarian
functions, urges States, parties to conflict and all other relevant actors to take all
measures necessary to protect activities related to humanitarian assistance, prevent
attacks on and kidnapping of national and international humanitarian workers and
ensure the safety and security of the personnel and property of the Office and that of
all humanitarian organizations discharging functions mandated by the Office, and
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