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International Legal Standards for the Protection from Refoulement


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Every year, millions of people are seeking protection in countries other than their own for fear of being tortured, persecuted, or killed. Finding protection is not easy. States are closely guarding their borders, making it difficult for aliens to seek protection from serious harm. No matter where they are or why they flee, people seeking international protection are vulnerable and insecure - in dire need of knowing, understanding, and receiving their rights. This book explores the basic right of every forcibly-displaced person to be protected from refoulement (forced return). The prohibition of refoulement is the cornerstone of international refugee and asylum law and aims to provide protection to people at risk of persecution, torture, inhuman treatment, or other human rights violations upon return to their own country. This book provides a comprehensive legal analysis of prohibitions of refoulement contained in four human rights treaties - the Refugee Convention, the European Convention on Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the Convention against Torture. The emphasis of the analysis is on the international meaning of the prohibitions of refoulement and on the responsibilities of States deriving from these prohibitions. The four treaties are analyzed in separate chapters. The final chapter compares the prohibitions of refoulement contained in the four investigated treaties. This book will be an important resource for legal scholars, students, and practitioners working with asylum seekers and refugees throughout the world. It is also a reminder for States which have obliged themselves to protect people from becoming victims of unspeakable atrocities.
About the Author: Cornelis (Kees) Wouters is the senior refugee law advisor at the Division of International Protection of UNHCR in Geneva. In the past he has worked as a researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Immigration Law at Leiden Law School, where in 2009 he obtained his doctoral (PhD) degree with his thesis on International Legal Standards for the Protection from Refoulement. He has worked for various non-governmental organisations in the Netherlands, such as Amnesty International and the Dutch Council for Refugees and was also a member of the sub-Committee on Asylum and Refugee Law of the Permanent Committee of Experts on International Immigration, Refugee and Criminal Law (Meijers Committee). He has also worked in Asia as a staff member and lecturer at the Office of Human Rights Studies and Social Development of Mahidol University in Thailand (2000-2004) and as a lawyer for the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE). In 2005 he joined COHRE where he was responsible for setting up and managing the national office of COHRE in Sri Lanka. In 2007 and 2008 he worked as a consultant and legal officer for COHRE's Asia and Pacific Programme and was involved in various projects concerning housing, land and property restitution for refugees and displaced persons.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789050958769
  • Publisher: Intersentia
  • Publisher Imprint: Intersentia
  • Depth: 38
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 36 mm
  • Weight: 1092 gr
  • ISBN-10: 9050958761
  • Publisher Date: 13 Apr 2009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 239 mm
  • No of Pages: 638
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: A Legal Analysis of the Prohibitions on Refoulement Contained in the Refugee Convention, the European Convention on Human Rights, the International
  • Width: 163 mm


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