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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"International refugee law"”.
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Responsibility Sharing in International Refugee Law: Towards Differentiated Legal Obligations
This Thesis is a study on the law and practice of international cooperation and responsibility sharing for refugees, both as it is and as it should be, with a strong focus on the latter. Despite the existence of a general duty of states to cooperate to protect refugees in international law, there …
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Musical chairs: selected questions of burden-sharing in international refugee law
The number of refugees worldwide has never been higher, with an estimate of 65.3 million forcibly displaced persons by the end of 2015. The brunt of the material, economic and social burdens these waves of often destitute persons represent is borne by a minority of closeproximity States, …
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The importance of administrative justice rights in international refugee law: a case study of South Africa
International human rights law instruments are not prescriptive regarding the procedure for processing refugees by an individual state. However, they do provide an extensive set of rights, and it is these rights that form the focus of this study. One of the main principles of international law is …
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International Refugee Law and Legal Theory: Developing a New Global Ethic for the Contemporary Protection of Refugees
… how contracting states have applied the Refugee Convention. It argues that a hard positivist paradigm of separating what the law is from what it ought to be is insufficient because the Convention is a legal instrument of value that protects human autonomy. That is why it is necessary to …
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Accounting for Gender in International Refugee Law: A Close Reading of the UNHCR Gender Guidelines and the Discursive Construction of Gender as an Identity
… of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ “Guidelines on International Protection: Gender-Related Persecution within the context of Article 1A(2) of the 1951 Convention and/or its 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees” – a document that explains how legal definitions of …
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Beyond the Threshold of Protection: Examining Non-Refoulement's Erosion in Contemporary Refugee Law through the EU-Turkey Agreement
… of non-refoulement as established in the 1951 Refugee Convention. While this fundamental principle of international refugee law prohibits the return of individuals to countries where they face persecution, torture, or human rights violations, its widespread violation by state parties raises …
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Under international law, when can states deny refugees asylum on the basis of national security: an analysis of the 2017 U.S. ‘travel ban’ executive orders and the suspension of the refugee admissions program
… Muslim-majority countries and suspended the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program for 120 days. Subsequently, on 24 September 2017, the President issued Proclamation 9645, which continued many of these immigration restrictions. The actions of the U.S. President reflect the growing connection between …
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Gender Identity, Refugeehood, and Belonging: Transgender Asylum-Seekers and International Refugee Status Determination (RSD)
… deals with transgender asylum-seekers and refugee status determination (RSD). It considers the excessively complex legal developments and discourse surrounding gender-related asylum applications and challenges the strict interpretation of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of …
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Pursuing Accountability for systemic pushbacks at the Poland/Belarus border under international law
… analyze whether Poland is in violation of their international human rights obligations and obligations under international refugee law and whether the situation at the border with Belarus give rises to state responsibility by constituting an internationally wrongful act. The second part will …
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Sexual violence against refugee and asylum seeking women in the Dadub and Kakuma refugee camps in Kenya : challenges and prospects for securing the duty to protect
… protection framework established under the international refugee law regime is inadequate to provide protection to refugee victims of sexual violence. It will also argue that the various duty bearers vis-a-vis the right to security of refugee women in Kenya are not living up to their legal …
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The Legality of Border Walls under International Law
… the legality of border walls under public international law, focusing on four legal regimes: international refugee law, international human rights law, international indigenous law, and international environmental law. For illustration, the thesis assesses the compatibility of wall …
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Effective protection?: a comparative analysis of the role of international law in preventing and tackling human trafficking among refugees and asylum seekers in Africa and Europe
Across the globe, there are 26 million refugees and 4.2 million asylum seekers (RAS), a figure which is continually on the rise as drivers of displacement persist in multiple contexts. Among the challenges facing RAS is the risk and reality of human trafficking. This thesis focuses on the role of …
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Enforcement of refugee rights in South Africa through public interest litigation in the spirit of Ubuntu
… the challenge of ineffective enforcement of refugee rights in South Africa, focusing on the right of refugees to seek and enjoy asylum and undergo a fair refugee status determination procedure. The dissertation proposes a solution through the exploration of public interest litigation (PIL) as …
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The human rights responsibilities of host states in relation to child marriages involving refugees, a study of European responses to the European refugee crisis
… and Africa have brought hundreds of thousands of refugees to Europe. Among them are hundreds of minor married girls, and European states are often unsure how to deal with them. This thesis aims to identify state obligations under international and European regional human rights law and refugee …
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The role of national human rights institutions in promoting and protecting the rights of refugees: the case of South Africa and Kenya
… normative and implementation gaps within the international refugee protection regime suggest the need to reform its implementation and accountability processes. Increasingly, the focus is being shifted to local or domestic actors to attempt to address the challenges faced in realising refugee …
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South Africa’s diplomatic strategy on migrants, with specific reference to the United Nations refugee regime, 1994-2009
South Africa is seen as a major destination for refugees and asylum-seekers and is, according to the 2010 Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the world’s highest destination country for asylum-seekers, mainly from Sub-Saharan Africa. Following the 1994 democratic elections, …