The Refugee in International LawMillions of people are today forced to flee their homes as a result of conflict, systematic discrimination, or other forms of persecution. The core instruments on which they must rely to secure international protection are the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol. This book, the leading text in the field, examines key challenges to the Convention such as the status of refugees, applications for asylum, and the international and domestic standards of protection. The situation of refugees is one of the most pressing and urgent problems facing the international community and refugee law has grown in recent years to a subject of global importance. In this long-awaited third edition each chapter has been thoroughly revised and updated and every issue, old and new, has received fresh analysis. Features include: analysis of internally displaced persons; so-called preventive protection; access to refugees; safety of refugees and relief personnel; the situation of refugee women and children; a detailed examination of the role of the UNHCR and the Palestinian situation; and an assessment of the protection possibilities (or lack of them) in the European Convention on Human Rights. |
Contents
Tables of Cases | xxv |
Table of Treaties and Other International and Regional Instruments | xliii |
Selected Abbreviations | xlix |
Online Resource Centre | lv |
Chapter 1 The Refugee in International Law | 1 |
REFUGEES | 13 |
ASYLUM | 199 |
PROTECTION | 419 |
ANNEXES | 557 |
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1951 Convention adopted Annex application for asylum Article Assembly assistance asylum seekers claim concerned Convention refugee Council Council of Europe country of origin Court crime customary international law decision Declaration degrading treatment determination displaced persons EHRR ensure European Convention European Union example Executive Committee Conclusion extradition fear of persecution Geneva Convention Goodwin-Gill granted High Commissioner Home Department Human Rights humanitarian Ibid ICCPR66 IJRL individual inhuman or degrading Internally Displaced Internally Displaced Persons international law International Protection issue mass influx Member Migration obligations offence Organization paragraph paras parties political practice principle of non-refoulement procedures Protocol Qualification Directive reasons recognized refoulement Refugee Protection refugee status relating relevant repatriation Report resettlement residence responsibility right of asylum State’s stateless persons Status of Refugees subsidiary protection temporary protection territory tion torture treaty UNGA res UNHCR United Kingdom United Nations well-founded fear