The right to seek and enjoy asylum is affirmed in various regional legal instruments and implemented in part by States’ obligations to provide international protection to refugees in accordance with the 1951 Refugee Convention, its 1967 Protocol and regional refugee law instruments and frameworks. The international legal framework for protecting refugees include admission to the territory, access to fair and efficient asylum procedures, standards of treatment in line with international law and access to durable solutions. The cornerstone of asylum and refugee protection is the principle of non-refoulement, which prohibits States from expelling or returning  people to countries where they are at risk of serious harm.