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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Refugee Law"”.
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Is South African Refugee Law creating a stateless generation?
… of international, regional and domestic laws protecting the right to a nationality, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that more than 10 million persons are stateless worldwide. In addition to not being able to vote or run for public office, stateless …
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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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A 'harvest' in Malawi: the position of albinism in Refugee Law
The albinism community in Malawi has been faced with gruesome human rights violations for the past decade. These violations have included, assaults, kidnapping, mutilations, and murder. The cause of such violations is that the community of Malawi has for so long embraced the superstitious belief …
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South African refugee law and policy in relation to the international refugee regime
… 2 Almost every book or article on the subject of refugee law begins with statistics indicating the growing number of refugees (usually with a note that most refugees are from African countries), a comment about the causes of refugee movement, followed by the assertion that there is little evidence …
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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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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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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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Evaluating the alignment of the refugee status determination process with international and national human rights and refugee law: a cross-country analysis of Sweden and South Africa
In South Africa, the domestic refugee legislation, the Refugees Act 130 of 1998, was established in 1998.1 However, the country continues to struggle to correctly implement and apply the refugee law in a successful manner. Furthermore, outside its domestic refugee legislation, South Africa has both …
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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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Temporary Refuge as a Response to Large - Scale Refugee Influxes
… of temporary refuge in relation to large-scale refugee influxes. It combines contextual and legal analyses and examines the topic lex lata. It presents a unique insight into the topic by critically considering some conventional assumptions in the field, and represents one of the few academic …
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Analysis of the possibility of, and challenges associated with, the qualification for refugee status of victims of human trafficking in South Africa
… a particular human rights framework - that of refugee law - and to assess any factors that may hinder qualification for such protection.
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The Legality of Border Walls under International Law
… 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 construction with …
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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
… 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 rights …
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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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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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