Refugee Protection

Refugee Protection
Author: Kate Jastram
Publisher:
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2001
Genre: Asylum, Right of
ISBN:

2. The role of UNHCR

Human Rights and Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons and Migrant Workers

Human Rights and Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons and Migrant Workers
Author: Anne Fruma Bayefsky
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 630
Release: 2006
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9004144838

Examines the major issues in the field today: the theoretical challenges of international protection; lessons learned from the field including Afghanistan, Iraq and Sudan; jurisprudential responses from courts; due process issues from Europe, Canada and the United States, and the special needs of migrant workers.

Human Rights Protection for Refugees, Asylum-Seekers, and Internally Displaced Persons: A Guide to International Mechanisms and Procedures

Human Rights Protection for Refugees, Asylum-Seekers, and Internally Displaced Persons: A Guide to International Mechanisms and Procedures
Author: Joan Fitzpatrick
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 700
Release: 2021-11-22
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004480579

This volume provides a detailed and concrete analysis of how human rights complaints mechanisms can be accessed by refugees, asylum-seekers, and internally displaced persons. The guide offers a thorough explanation of the United Nations human rights treaty bodies, with a focus upon the four committees authorized to receive communications from individuals. Detailed information is provided concerning procedural requirements, while the treaties are analyzed for their relevance to the forcibly displaced. United Nations mechanisms are also examined, with an emphasis on the thematic and country special procedures of the Commission on Human Rights. Published under the auspices of the Procedual Aspects of International Law Institute (PAIL). For more information about PAIL please go to pail-institute.org . Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.

International Human Rights Monitoring Mechanisms

International Human Rights Monitoring Mechanisms
Author: Gudmundur Alfredsson
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Total Pages: 745
Release: 2009
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9004162364

This revised and updated collection is intended to serve as a thematic textbook on the institutions and procedures devoted to the national implementation of human rights and to the international monitoring of State performance. Albeit not exhaustive, the coverage extends to most of the monitoring instances available at intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations: complaints, fact-finding and investigative procedures, State reporting obligations, good offices actions, dialogue functions, human rights education, dissemination of human rights information, letter campaigns, and technical co-operation. The target audience of the book is students of international human rights law, but the book can also serve as a guide for both officials and activists involved in the realization of human rights.The success of the first edition has allowed for this second edition. It demonstrates that there is a important demand for literature with a focus on human rights monitoring and follow-up activities.

The Professional Identity of the Human Rights Field Officer

The Professional Identity of the Human Rights Field Officer
Author: George Ulrich
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2016-02-24
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1317018915

The important and groundbreaking volume, The Professional Identity of the Human Rights Field Officer, completes the study of human rights field work begun in the earlier The Human Rights Field Operation: Law Theory and Practice (2007: Ashgate). Building on the critique of the field’s historical development and current situation featured in the earlier volume, O’Flaherty, Ulrich and their fellow contributors focus on the specific responsibilities of the individual human rights officer, and concentrate on vital issues of professionalism beyond the confines of any specific organization. Their expansion of the analysis in the case studies section of the first volume has resulted in an up to date global edition of significant academic interest to anyone within the field of human rights law.

Forced Migration, Human Rights and Security

Forced Migration, Human Rights and Security
Author: Jane McAdam
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2008-03-13
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1847314147

The international protection regime for refugees and other forced migrants seems increasingly at risk as measures designed to enhance security-of borders, of people, of institutions, and of national identity-encroach upon human rights. This timely edited collection responds to some of the contemporary challenges faced by the international protection regime, with a particular focus on the human rights of those displaced. The book begins by assessing the impact of anti-terrorism laws on refugee status, both at the international and domestic levels, before turning to examine the function of offshore immigration control mechanisms and extraterritorial processing on asylum seekers' access to territory and entitlements (both procedural and substantive). It considers the particular needs and rights of children as forced migrants, but also as children; the role of human rights law in protecting religious minorities in the context of debates about national identity; the approaches of refugee decision-makers in assessing the credibility of evidence; and the scope for an international judicial commission to provide consistent interpretative guidance on refugee law, so as to overcome (or at least diminish) the currently diverse and sometimes conflicting approaches of national courts. The last part of the book examines the status of people who benefit from 'complementary protection'-such as those who cannot be removed from a country because they face a risk of torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment-and the scope for the broader concept of the 'responsibility to protect' to address gaps in the international protection regime.

European Yearbook of Minority Issues

European Yearbook of Minority Issues
Author: European Centre for Minority Issues
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Total Pages: 545
Release: 2005-01-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9004142800

The "European Yearbook of Minority Issues" provides a critical and timely review of contemporary developments in minority-majority relations in Europe. It combines analysis, commentary and documentation in relation to conflict management, international legal developments and domestic legislation affecting minorities in Europe. "Part I" contains scholarly articles and, in 2003/4, features two special focus sections on The Impact of Islam in Europe and Economic Participation of Minorities. "Part II" reviews the implementation of minority legislation and international standards at the universal and regional levels as well as new developments in relation to them and contains a list of international norms. Apart from providing a unique annual overview of minority issues for both scholars and practitioners in this field, the Yearbook is an indispensable reference tool for libraries, research institutes as well as governments and international organisations.

The UNHCR and the Supervision of International Refugee Law

The UNHCR and the Supervision of International Refugee Law
Author: James C. Simeon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2013-08-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107022851

Analyses UNHCR's supervision of international refugee law and compliance with international standards in helping to ensure and advance refugee rights.

The International Legal Status and Protection of Environmentally-Displaced Persons: A European Perspective

The International Legal Status and Protection of Environmentally-Displaced Persons: A European Perspective
Author: Hélène Ragheboom
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 698
Release: 2017-07-03
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004317422

In The International Legal Status and Protection of Environmentally-Displaced Persons: A European Perspective, Hélène Ragheboom addresses the topical issue of displacement caused by environmental factors and analyses in particular whether affected persons, who are unable or unwilling to return to their country of origin due to the severe degradation of their living environment, could or, in the negative, should receive some form of international protection within the European Union. The author provides a detailed analysis of relevant instruments of refugee law and international human rights law, and explores possible future approaches to addressing the phenomenon of environmental displacement, ranging from constructive interpretations of existing norms to the allegedly preferable creation of a multidisciplinary sui generis framework.