The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and Its 1967 Protocol 2e
The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and Its 1967 Protocol 2e

Author: Andreas Zimmermann

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024-04-04

Total Pages: 2033

ISBN-13: 0192855115

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The 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol are the cornerstones of international refugee law. This Commentary provides a systematic, article-by-article analysis of their provisions in addition to crosscutting thematic chapters. The Commentary is an indispensable tool for lawyers, decision-makers, and academics.

The Internal Protection Alternative in Refugee Law
The Internal Protection Alternative in Refugee Law

Author: Jessica Schultz

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-12-10

Total Pages: 443

ISBN-13: 9004361960

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Under what circumstances can a state refuse refugee status to a person whose risk of persecution exists in only part of her country of origin? This book is the first monograph to examine the treaty basis and criteria for the ‘internal protection alternative’ (IPA), an exception to refugee status increasingly invoked by state parties to the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol. Through a critical analysis of the relationship between refugee law and related fields, Schultz finds that the legal scope for IPA practice is narrower than is commonly claimed. Since persons subject to an IPA analysis have a well-founded fear of persecution within their countries of origin, any limit on their right to refugee status must involve a careful balancing of the impact of continued displacement against the state's interest in preserving its restricted protection resources. She argues that the doctrine of implied limits in human rights law can provide analytic structure to the IPA concept and reduce the risk of overly broad application.

The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol
The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol

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Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024-01-10

Total Pages: 2697

ISBN-13: 0192667203

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The Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees adopted on 28 July 1951 in Geneva continues to provide the most comprehensive codification of the rights of refugees yet attempted. Consolidating previous international instruments relating to refugees, the 1951 Convention with its 1967 Protocol marks a cornerstone in the development of international refugee law. At present, there are 149 States Parties to one or both of these instruments, expressing a worldwide consensus on the definition of the term refugee and the fundamental rights to be granted to refugees. These facts demonstrate and underline the extraordinary significance of these instruments as the indispensable legal basis of international refugee law. This Commentary provides for a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol on an article-by-article basis, exposing the interrelationship between the different articles and discussing the latest developments in international refugee law. In addition, several thematic contributions analyse questions of international refugee law which are of general significance, such as regional developments, the interrelationship between refugee law and general human rights law, as well as the relationship between refugee law and the law of the sea.

In Flight from Conflict and Violence
In Flight from Conflict and Violence

Author: Volker Türk

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-01-20

Total Pages: 563

ISBN-13: 1316773108

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The impact of violence and conflict on refugee status determination and international protection is a key developing field. Given the contemporary dynamics of armed conflict, how to interpret and apply the refugee definitions at global and regional levels is increasingly relevant to governmental policy-makers, decision-makers, legal practitioners, academics and students. This book will provide a comprehensive analysis of the global and regional refugee instruments as they apply to claimants in flight from situations of armed violence and conflict, exploring their interrelationship and how they are interpreted and applied (or should be applied). As part of a broader United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees project to develop guidelines on the interpretation and application of international refugee law instruments to claimants fleeing armed conflict and other situations of violence, it includes contributions from leading scholars and practitioners in this field as well as emerging authors with specific expertise.

Evaluating the Effectiveness of International Refugee Law
Evaluating the Effectiveness of International Refugee Law

Author: M. R. Alborzi

Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9004152512

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This book is an evaluation of the international response to a major protracted humanitarian situation. As such, it is the first comprehensive account and assessment of the effectiveness of international law in dealing with Iraqi refugees during the regime of Saddam Hussein.

Research Handbook on International Refugee Law
Research Handbook on International Refugee Law

Author: Satvinder Singh Juss

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 0857932810

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In an age of ethnic nationalism and anti-immigrant rhetoric, the study of refugees can help develop a new outlook on social justice, just as the post-war international order ends. The global financial crisis, the rise of populist leaders like Trump, Putin, and Erdogan, not to mention the arrival of anti-EU parties, raises the need to interrogate the refugee, migrant, citizen, stateless, legal, and illegal as concepts. This insightful Research Handbook is a timely contribution to that debate.

The UNHCR and the Supervision of International Refugee Law
The UNHCR and the Supervision of International Refugee Law

Author: James C. Simeon

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-08-15

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 1107244781

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The 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, and its 1967 Protocol, and many other important international instruments recognize the unique role the UNHCR plays in protecting refugees and supervising international refugee law. This in-depth analysis of the UNHCR's supervisory role in the international refugee protection regime examines the part played by key institutions, organizations and actors in the supervision of international refugee law. It provides suggestions and recommendations on how the UNHCR's supervisory role can be strengthened to ensure greater State Parties' compliance to their obligations under these international refugee rights treaties, and contributes to enhancing the international protection of refugees and to the promotion of a democratic global governance of the international refugee protection regime.

Human Rights and the Refugee Definition
Human Rights and the Refugee Definition

Author: Bruce Burson

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-02-02

Total Pages: 427

ISBN-13: 9004288597

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Does human rights law help us to define who qualifies as a refugee? If so, then how? These deceptively simple questions sit at the heart of an intense contemporary debate over whether, or how, interpretation of the refugee definition in the Refugee Convention should take account of human rights law. In Human Rights and the Refugee Definition, Burson and Cantor bring a fine-grained comparative perspective to this debate. For the first time, they collect together in one edited volume over a dozen new studies by leading scholars and practitioners that explore in detail how these legal dynamics play out in a range of national and international jurisdictions and in relation to particular thematic challenges in refugee law.

The Rights of Refugees under International Law
The Rights of Refugees under International Law

Author: James C. Hathaway

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-04-22

Total Pages: 1453

ISBN-13: 1108495893

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The only comprehensive analysis of international refugee rights, anchored in the hard facts of refugee life around the world.