Title	Article 31 of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees: Non-Penalization, Detention and Protection [Global Consultations on International Protection/Second Track]
Publisher	UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Author	Guy S. Goodwin-Gill
Publication Date	1 October 2001
Topics	1951 Refugee Convention | Global Consultations on international protection | Illegal entry | Immigration Detention
Cite as	UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Article 31 of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees: Non-Penalization, Detention and Protection [Global Consultations on International Protection/Second Track], 1 October 2001, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/3bf9123d4.html [accessed 22 June 2017]
Comments	This expert paper was presented at a round table on the issue, in the context of the Global Consultations on International Protection, which were organized by UNHCR in 2000-2002. A final version of this paper has been published in Refugee Protection in International Law: UNHCR's Global Consultations on International Protection (edited by Erika Feller, Volker Türk and Frances Nicholson, Cambridge University Press, 2003) and is available here. More information on this publication is available on UNHCR's website.