Precisely, a child, as defined by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of a Child is "a person below the age of 18, unless the laws of a particular country set the legal age for adulthood younger".8 More specifically, a 'child refugee' is an "unaccompanied person under the age...
The United States has obligations under international law and US statutory law to adhere to the legal principle of nonrefoulement to consider asylum claims. Under these laws, a person who qualifies as a refugee may be eligible for asylum and may avoid being deported to his or her country of ...
VIOLENCE lawsGUANTANAMO Bay Detention CampDETENTION facilities -- Law & legislationTORTUREHUNGER strikesThis article takes violence in the law seriously, scrutinizing three sites engaged in violent subject production and resistance: the Guantanamo Bay detention center, supermax prison...
Bou Habib also revealed that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and other officials had informed him that Syria has 40 laws to ensure that refugees, including opponents and dissidents, are not punished in any way. "The Syrian side has informed us of its willingness to cooperate with international...
The two students who are chatting in staccato German? They speak the language of elsewhere. And the women in hijab? She too speaks this language. There are others, but most of us are silent. Afraid that there will not be interpreters for elsewhere, that elsewhere is too vague and abstract...
oppressed peoples. The Displaced Persons Act of 1948—the first refugee legislation enacted by Congress—provided for the admission of 400,000 Europeans uprooted by the war. Later laws provided for the admission of persons fleeing communist regimes in Hungary, Poland, Yugoslavia, Korea, China, and...
In plenary sittings, the 705 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) meet in Strasbourg or Brussels to vote on European laws and take position on issues through debates. MEPs sit in political groups. Those who do not belong to a group sit as non-attached Members. ...
A comparative study of asylum laws and policies in the European Union and United States : similarities, divergences and common trends the asylum debate is taking place amid a highly charged political environment, examples of which can be seen in the immediate US response to the 11 Sept... Lad...
Early in 2001 the federal government tabled Bill C-11, the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA), new comprehensive legislation intended to overhaul Canadas immigration laws. By this time, refugees had become singled out above ot... SF Garritty - 《Canada》 被引量: 7发表: 2008年 "...
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