The Regional Law Of Refugee Protection In Africa

Author : Marina Sharpe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192560681

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The Regional Law of Refugee Protection in Africa by Marina Sharpe Pdf

This book analyses the legal framework for refugee protection in Africa, including both refugee and human rights law as well as treaty and institutional elements. The regime is addressed in two parts. Part One analyses the relevant treaties: the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, the 1969 Organization of African Unity Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa and the 1981 African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights. The latter two regional instruments are examined in depth. This includes the first fulsome account of the African Refugee Conventions drafting, an interpretation of its unique refugee definition and original analysis of the relationships between the three treaties. Significant attention is devoted to the systemic relationship between the international and the regional refugee treaties and to the discrete relationships of conflict and complementary relationships between the two refugee instruments, as well as to the relationships between the African Refugee Convention and African Charter. Part Two focuses on the institutional architecture supporting the treaty framework. The Organization of African Unity is addressed in a historical sense, and the contemporary roles of the African Union, the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights and the current and contemplated African human rights courts are examined. This book is the first devoted to the legal framework for refugee protection in Africa.

Author : Ademola Abass
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317069157

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Regional Approaches to the Protection of Asylum Seekers by Ademola Abass Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive assessment of regional responses to the crisis in the asylum/refugee system and critically examines how different regions tackle the problem. The chapters consider the fundamental challenges which undermine an effective asylum process as well as regional difficulties with the various circumstances surrounding asylum seekers. With contributions on Africa, Europe, Latin America, South Asia and the Middle East, and the Pacific, the collection strives to appreciate what informs each region’s approach to the asylum process and asks if there are issues common to every region and if regions can learn from one another. The book seeks an understanding of the existing legal regime for the protection of asylum seekers and how regional institutions such as human rights commissions and regional courts enforce and adjudicate the law. The volume will be valuable to those interested in international law, migration and human rights.

Author : Hne Lambert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351562218

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International Refugee Law by Hne Lambert Pdf

The essays selected and reproduced in this volume explore how international refugee law is dynamic and constantly evolving. From an instrument designed to protect mostly those civilians fleeing the worse excesses of World War II, the 1951 Refugee Convention has developed into a set of principles, customary rules, and values that are now firmly embedded in the human rights framework, and are applicable to a far broader range of refugees. In addition, international refugee law has been affected by international humanitarian law and international criminal law (and vice versa). Thus, there is a reinforcing dynamic in the development of these complementary areas of law. At the same time, in recent decades states have shown a renewed interest in managing migration, thereby raising issues of how to reconcile such interests with refugee protection principles. In addition, the emergence of concepts of participation and responsibility to protect promise to have an impact on international refugee law.

Author : Chaloka Beyani
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004228610

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Protection of the Right to Seek and Obtain Asylum under the African Human Rights System by Chaloka Beyani Pdf

This Commentary draws on the applied use of international human rights law under the African System of Human Rights to provide protection to those who need it most- refugees.

Author : Cristiano d'Orsi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317669814

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Asylum-Seeker and Refugee Protection in Sub-Saharan Africa by Cristiano d'Orsi Pdf

It is not often acknowledged that the great majority of African refugee movement happens within Africa rather than from Africa to the West. This book examines the specific characteristics and challenges of the refugee situation in Sub-Saharan Africa, offering a new and critical vision on the situation of asylum-seekers and refugees in the African continent. Cristiano d’Orsi considers the international, regional and domestic legal and institutional frameworks linked to refugee protection in Sub-Saharan Africa, and explores the contributions African refugee protection has brought to the cause on a global scale. Key issues covered in the book include the theory and the practice of non-refoulement, an analysis of the phenomenon of mass-influx, the concept of burden-sharing, and the role of freedom fighters. The book goes on to examine the expulsions of refugees and the historical role played by UNHCR in Sub-Saharan Africa. As a work which follows the persecution and legal challenges of those in search of a safe haven, this book will be of great interest and use to researchers and students of immigration and asylum law, international law, human rights, and African studies.

Author : Susan Kneebone,Dallal Stevens,Loretta Baldassar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135046910

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Refugee Protection and the Role of Law by Susan Kneebone,Dallal Stevens,Loretta Baldassar Pdf

Sixty years on from the signing of the Refugee Convention, forced migration and refugee movements continue to raise global concerns for hosting states and regions, for countries of origin, for humanitarian organisations on the ground, and, of course, for the refugee. This edited volume is framed around two themes which go to the core of contemporary ‘refugeehood’: protection and identity. It analyses how the issue of refugee identity is shaped by and responds to the legal regime of refugee protection in contemporary times. The book investigates the premise that there is a narrowing of protection space in many countries and many highly visible incidents of refoulement. It argues that ‘Protection’, which is a core focus of the Refugee Convention, appears to be under threat, as there are many gaps and inconsistencies in practice. Contributors to the volume, who include Erika Feller, Elspeth Guild, Hélène Lambert and Roger Zetter, look at the relevant issues from the perspective of a number of different disciplines including law, politics, sociology, and anthropology. The chapters examine the link between identity and protection as a basis for understanding how the Refugee Convention has been and is being applied in policy and practice. The situation in a number of jurisdictions and regions in Europe, North America, South East Asia, Africa and the Middle East is explored in order to ask the question does jurisprudence under the Refugee Convention need better coordination and how successful is oversight of the Convention?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Human rights
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111030552

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Perspectives on Refugee Protection in South Africa by Anonim Pdf

Includes statistics.

Author : Penelope Mathew,Tristan Harley
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781782547297

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Refugees, Regionalism and Responsibility by Penelope Mathew,Tristan Harley Pdf

The ongoing refugee and migrant crisis in Europe has accelerated the need to find answers for refugee movements. Refugees, Regionalism and Responsibility examines regional cooperation as a potential solution. Through a thorough assessment of past and present regional arrangements concerning refugees, this book considers whether regionalism has resulted in protection and durable solutions for both refugees and participating states.

Author : Corinne Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780415524421

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UNHCR and International Refugee Law by Corinne Lewis Pdf

This book considers the UNHCR's contribution to international refugee law. The book explores the role of the organisation in developing international refugee law and ensuring the effectiveness of such law. The book charts the significant evolution that has occurred in the organisation's role in the last sixty years and reflects on how the UNHCR can ensure its own viability and relevance in the face of future refugee crises.

Author : Fatima Khan (Lawyer),Tal Schreier
Publisher : Juta and Company Ltd
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Asylum, Right of
ISBN : 1485101239

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Refugee Law in South Africa by Fatima Khan (Lawyer),Tal Schreier Pdf

Author : Niklaus Steiner,Mark Gibney,Gil Loescher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135395551

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Problems of Protection by Niklaus Steiner,Mark Gibney,Gil Loescher Pdf

First Published in 2003. Of all the humanitarian impulses in world politics today, one of the most widely recognized is the need to protect refugees. However, as The Problems of Protection explores, what on the surface appears to be a simple proposition can quickly become complex and controversial. This complexity results in troubling variation in how we respond to our obligation to protect refugees--while NATO launches a major military intervention on behalf of Albanians in Kosovo amidst worldwide media attention, the international community's response to Sierra Leonean refugees is slow, inefficient and inadequate. Who qualifies as a refugee in need of protection? Should refugees be returned as soon as possible, or integrated into safer host countries? The contributors to this volume address the often lacking political will among powerful countries and donors, shifting attitudes among affected countries, and the difficulty of rebuilding societies in a world in which the number of refugees will almost certainly continue to increase.

Author : M. Rafiqul Islam,Md. Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004226166

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An Introduction to International Refugee Law by M. Rafiqul Islam,Md. Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan Pdf

The book is designed to provide an overview of the development, meaning, and nature of international refugee law. The jurisprudence on the status of refugees, loss and denial of the refugees status, non-refoulement, asylum, problems and challenges of refugee protection, the law of return and the right of return, critical refugees and immigration law, and the role of international organizations in protection of refugees are revisited in the context of contemporary realities. The relationship between armed conflict, climate change, and human right violations induced refugees and the existing international refugee regime emerging will be succinctly highlighted and analysed in the book. This lucidly written and timely book will be immensely helpful to anyone grappling with the demonstrated inadequacies of international refugee law in real life situations today and desirous of the reorientation of its meaning and scope to cater for the changing needs and shared expectation of the international community in the 21st century.

Author : Loyd Marcel Minka
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783668432062

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The Implementation of the Principle of Non-Refoulement in Africa. The Protection of the Rights of Refugees in situation of Massive Influx by Loyd Marcel Minka Pdf

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2017 in the subject Politics - Topic: Public International Law and Human Rights, grade: Principle of non-refoulement, University of Yaoundé I (Catholic Institut of Yaoundé (Cameroon) - Academy of Peace and Human Rights at the Catholic University of Central Africa (Cameroon)), course: Refugee Protection, language: English, abstract: There are many international standards or instruments which protect the rights of refugees to non-refoulment. These instruments are: the United Nations convention relating to the status of refugees of 1951 and its protocol of 1967, the international covenant on civil and political rights of 1966, the United Nations convention against torture of 1989 and the Convention of the Organization of the African Unity governing the specific aspects of refugee problems in Africa adopted in 1969. These instruments play a great role in favoring the implementation of the principle of non-refoulement.

Author : James C. Hathaway
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997-09-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9041104186

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Reconceiving International Refugee Law by James C. Hathaway Pdf

2.2 The Refugee Family.

Author : Jeff Handmaker,Lee Anne De la Hunt,Jonathan Klaaren
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN : 1845451090

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Advancing Refugee Protection in South Africa by Jeff Handmaker,Lee Anne De la Hunt,Jonathan Klaaren Pdf

Divided into three thematic parts to guide the reader, this important volume documents the development and implementation of refugee policy in South Africa over a 10-year period from 1996 until 2006. In doing so, it addresses issues of detention, gender, children and health as well as welfare policies for refugees. The contributions, all written by academics and practitioners of refugee protection, vividly illustrate the tangible shifts and concerns of a process that is not only aimed at establishing policies and legislation but also practices concerning refugees.