For people with communication disability, who are refugee-survivors of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), additional human rights are challenged, including the right to education, protection from discrimination, a safe place to live, security of person and legal protection. Their experiences ...
Provision of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Recognition of the right of all people to seek asylum from persecution taking place in their homelands; Effects of World War I; Internal and external conflicts that have created a major international refugee problem; Lack of safe havens for...
to a Muslim Somali refugee, to the first openly gay man elected governor, the 2018 midterms saw a series of history-making votes from people and groups who openly oppose polarized conservative direction.
Although the Refugee Convention of 28 July 1951 has been recognised generally as the Magna Charta of international refugee law and the Convention has been followed in more than 100 contracting states for many decades, it is still the source of numerous questions of interpretation. A particularly pr...
This article considers several questions surrounding sexual migration, binational same-sex couples, legal precedent, and the role of religious communities
The spike in such arrivals in recent years1 has induced changes to law and policy that strike at the very heart of the regime governing refugee status determinations - both at first instance and on appeal. This is not a new phenomenon: Australian governments have been responding to the ...
In Part I, Westra provides an overview of what defines an ecological refugee and their present legal status. Part II goes into greater depth as to who the vulnerable are and what protection they have in international law. Part III looks to the future, advocating a comprehensive approach to ...
Keywords: refugee children;children’s rights;children’s agency;UN Convention on the Rights of the Child;developmental trajectories;refugee trajectories
Issues that Human Rights Lawyers work on include a variety of topics such as refugee rights, child rights, war crimes, discrimination law, gender equality and more. Qualifications: Human Rights Lawyers need to obtain a law degree and pass any qualifying exams to practice law. Those interested ...
refugee status, to provide for the obligations and rights of asylum seekers and the establishment for the Refugee Appeals Authority. daccess-ods.un.org 难民法( 修正案),2008年(2008年第33号法) :确定难民身份,规定寻求庇 护者的义务和权利,及设立 难民上诉机构。 daccess-ods.un.org(...