of religious practice (Article 4), association (Article 15),

access to courts (Article 16), employment (Articles 17-19), Welfare and education (Articles 20-24), freedom of movement

(Articles 26-28) and finance (Articles 29-30).

5. However, States only have an obligation to provide asylum to refugees who are in their territory and who do not safe “ek? asylum elsewhere, In general, this means that we only consider

applications for refugee status from asylum-seekers in the UK arrived directly from the country where they were being

prosecuted.

Pers

The UK has also ratified the following intruments:

Agreement relating to Refugee Seamen, 1957

6.

(a)

(b)

Protocol to (a), 1973

(c)

(d)

1961

(e)

1980 European Agreement on the Transfer of Responsibility

for Refugees

Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, 1954

Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness,

(f) 1959 European Agreement on the Abolition of Visas for

Refugees

In addition, Council of Europe Recommendation 293 of 1961, deals with the right of asylum' and Resolution 14 of 1969 with ́asylum to persons in danger of persecution ́. On 18 November 1977, the Committee of Ministers adopted the 'Declaration on

Territorial Asylum",

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