Refugee Law

Refugee law is the branch of international law which deals with the rights and duties states have vis-a-vis refugees. There are differences of opinion among international law scholars as to the relationship between refugee law and international human rights law or humanitarian law. The discussion forms part of a larger debate on the fragmentation of international law. While some scholars conceive each branch as a self-contained regime distinct from other branches, others regard the three branches as forming a larger normative system that seeks to protect the rights of all human beings at all time. The proponents of the latter …

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EPRS: European Parliamentary Research Service · 21 November 2023 English

appropriate standards laid down in human rights and refugee law. The 2015 migration crisis revealed wide divergences in accordance with relevant human rights and refugee law standards. Article 25 of the Universal Declaration


Amnesty International · 15 November 2023

UK: Government must now ‘draw a line’ under disgraceful Rwanda scheme In response to the Supreme Court judgment today ruling that the UK Government’s Rwanda policy is unlawful, Sacha Deshmukh, …

of Venezuelan nationals violate international refugee law COUNTRY NEWS NEWS NEWS 11/20/23, 3:56 AM UK:


World Bank Group · 8 November 2023 English

This legal study is based on Legal Dimensions of Sea Level Rise: Pacific Perspectives which was published on June 29, 2021. The original version provided an assessment of key legal …

Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, University of New South Wales, FNI Report 1/2016


Amnesty International · 7 November 2023 English

Responding to the announcement that the Italian and Albanian Prime Ministers yesterday signed an agreement to construct two centres in Albania in which to detain people rescued at sea by …

refoulement is a core principle of international refugee law, as part of customary international law, it is


United Nations Security Council · 7 November 2023 English

Concerning the support of the international community, the Special Envoy called on the Council and the International Contact Group for the Great Lakes region to support regional dialogue efforts and …

international human rights law and international refugee law and to act to prevent and end grave violations international humanitarian law, human rights law and refugee law and called for accountability measures against international humanitarian law, human rights law and refugee law as well as relevant Council resolutions by all


ODI: Overseas Development Institute · 2 November 2023 English

The first half of the paper provides a 2022 snapshot of the funding landscape for RLOs: how much funding reached RLOs in 2022, how it was tracked, who the main …

Sydney: UNSW Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law (www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/ publication/d


RSC: Royal Society of Canada · 1 November 2023 English

After rigorous evaluation and review of their accomplishments, leading individuals may be elected to one of the Society’s three Academies—the Academy of Arts and Humanities, the Academy of Social Sciences, …

James Curtis Hathaway is the world’s leading refugee law scholar. Over the past four decades, his voice


Amnesty International · 26 October 2023 English

Amnesty International strongly urges the Government of Pakistan to reverse its decision on the forced deportation of unregistered Afghan refugees by 1 November 2023. Pakistan has been a generous host …

to refugee status in line with international refugee law. Amnesty International urges the government


SMF: Social Market Foundation · 24 October 2023 English

For the UK, the outcome of such a reformed system would be to end the obligation to maintain two very onerous and costly systems: one designed to seek to repel …

experts on the intricacies of international refugee law should know – views such as a system as this Refugees’ (2018) 30(4), International Journal of Refugee Law, 591 https://academic.oup.com/ijrl/article/30/4/591/5310192


World Bank Group · 23 October 2023 English

This legal study is based on Legal Dimensions of Sea Level Rise: Pacific Perspectives which was published on June 29, 2021. The original version provided an assessment of key legal …

Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, University of New South Wales, FNI Report 1/2016


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