[PDF] Switzerland And The International Protection Of Refugees 50 Years After The Adoption Of The Geneva Convention Relating To The Refugee Status Original Title eBook

Author : Vincent Chetail
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Release : 2010
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The artcile present the contribution of Switzerland to the international protection of refugees.

Author : Vera Gowlland-Debbas
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 47,21 MB
Release : 2021-10-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9004481079

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The present volume highlights the new challenges of the international protection of refugees fifty years after the adoption of the 1951 Geneva Convention relating to the Status of Refugees. Focusing on the problems faced by Switzerland in the field of international protection of refugees as well as on the specificity of its asylum law and practice, this publication addresses the refugee problem from a national, European and international perspective. The Swiss experience serves to illustrate the wider problematic of on the one hand, the tensions between security, political and humanitarian concerns encountered by refugee-receiving states, and on the other, the need to preserve an international refugee protection regime which remains an essential component of international law and relations for so long as political solutions are not brought to the root causes of refugee exodus. This reflection on the international protection of refugees is organized around four main themes. The first examines Switzerland's response in the past to mass influx, in the light of historical case studies and the evolution of Swiss asylum law and practice. The second focuses on the question of access of refugees to asylum territories and refugee status determination procedures within the framework of the 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees and the current Swiss asylum law. The third centres on the wider protection regime currently being forged in Europe to address a broader category of refugees, including solutions for temporary and subsidiary protection. The final theme revolves around return of refugees, including those under the Dayton and recent Kosovo agreements and covers reintegration of returnees, assistance and long-term development. This work is based on papers presented at a colloquium of the Graduate Institute of the International Studies in Geneva which was organised in collaboration with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees as a contribution to the 50th anniversaries of the UNHCR and the Geneva Convention relating to the Status of Refugees.

Author : M. Moussalli
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File Size : 45,31 MB
Release : 2003
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Selection of articles by Michel Moussalli, former UNHCR Director of International Protection: Prospects for refugee protection in the 1990s : CMS 15th Annual National Legal Conference on Immigration and Refugee Policy, March 26-27, 1992. High Commissioner's Meeting with field representatives, Geneva 7-11 May 1990 : Wrap-up plenary session, 11 May 1990 : Summing up Statement on the Regional Meeting on Europe and North America. Refugees : the challenge of the nineties (December 1990). Refugees in the world today : main charactersistics and outlook for the future (March 1990). The United Nations and the increasing problems of flows of migrants across international borders (October 1991).

Author : Kate Jastram
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Page : 154 pages
File Size : 38,19 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Asylum, Right of
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2. The role of UNHCR

Author : Vincent Chetail
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 707 pages
File Size : 24,24 MB
Release : 2014-03-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 0857930052

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Migration is a complex and multifaceted issue, and the current legal framework suffers from considerable ambiguity and lack of cohesive focus. This Handbook offers a comprehensive take on the intersection of law and migration studies and provides strat

Author : T. Alexander Aleinikoff
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 15,63 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1503611426

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The international refugee regime is fundamentally broken. Designed in the wake of World War II to provide protection and assistance, the system is unable to address the record numbers of persons displaced by conflict and violence today. States have put up fences and adopted policies to deny, deter, and detain asylum seekers. People recognized as refugees are routinely denied rights guaranteed by international law. The results are dismal for the millions of refugees around the world who are left with slender prospects to rebuild their lives or contribute to host communities. T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Leah Zamore lay bare the underlying global crisis of responsibility. The Arc of Protection adopts a revisionist and critical perspective that examines the original premises of the international refugee regime. Aleinikoff and Zamore identify compromises at the founding of the system that attempted to balance humanitarian ideals and sovereign control of their borders by states. This book offers a way out of the current international morass through refocusing on responsibility-sharing, seeing the humanitarian-development divide in a new light, and putting refugee rights front and center.

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 2697 pages
File Size : 14,52 MB
Release : 2024-01-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 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.

Author : Volker Türk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 42,32 MB
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 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.