The spectacle of the governments of Australia, Indonesia, and Norway playing pass the parcel with 400 refugees, most of them Afghans, is not an edifying one... Yet the issues of responsibility, over which the three governments are arguing, are important ones which, left unsettled in this and other cases, could only worsen the prospects for all refugees in the longer run. For the truth is that when what agreement has been painfully achieved between nations on how to deal with refugees breaks down, the natural reaction is to erect even higher barriers than already exist
For all of its value as a critical mechanism of human rights protection, international refugee law i...
Conflicts in several countries in Asia resulted in increasing number of refugees and asylum seekers....
[G]overnments throughout the world have tried to avoid dealing with the difficult questions raised b...
The spectacle of the governments of Australia, Indonesia, and Norway playing pass the parcel with 40...
I am concerned that the singular importance of international refugee law is profoundly misunderstood...
Ironic though it may seem, I believe that the present breakdown in the authority of international re...
The author argues that the time is right to change the way that refugee law is implemented. Specific...
Governments in all parts of the world are withdrawing in practice from meeting the legal duty to pro...
The current European migration crisis has been playing out worldwide. As record numbers of migrants ...
In customary international law, nationality provides the principal link between the individual and t...
The following essay is based on a similar discussion that appeared in World Refugee Survey 1996 (© 1...
The ripple effects on refugee protection from the events of August and September 2001, arising out o...
In country after country a political polarization is growing, a movement away from the center-to the...
Both Canada and the United States are bound through the United Nations Protocol Relating to the Stat...
In a 2011 decision, the High Court of Australia effectively incorporated an international treaty int...
For all of its value as a critical mechanism of human rights protection, international refugee law i...
Conflicts in several countries in Asia resulted in increasing number of refugees and asylum seekers....
[G]overnments throughout the world have tried to avoid dealing with the difficult questions raised b...
The spectacle of the governments of Australia, Indonesia, and Norway playing pass the parcel with 40...
I am concerned that the singular importance of international refugee law is profoundly misunderstood...
Ironic though it may seem, I believe that the present breakdown in the authority of international re...
The author argues that the time is right to change the way that refugee law is implemented. Specific...
Governments in all parts of the world are withdrawing in practice from meeting the legal duty to pro...
The current European migration crisis has been playing out worldwide. As record numbers of migrants ...
In customary international law, nationality provides the principal link between the individual and t...
The following essay is based on a similar discussion that appeared in World Refugee Survey 1996 (© 1...
The ripple effects on refugee protection from the events of August and September 2001, arising out o...
In country after country a political polarization is growing, a movement away from the center-to the...
Both Canada and the United States are bound through the United Nations Protocol Relating to the Stat...
In a 2011 decision, the High Court of Australia effectively incorporated an international treaty int...
For all of its value as a critical mechanism of human rights protection, international refugee law i...
Conflicts in several countries in Asia resulted in increasing number of refugees and asylum seekers....
[G]overnments throughout the world have tried to avoid dealing with the difficult questions raised b...