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Contents
- Preliminary Material
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Summary Table of Contents
- Contents
- Tables of Cases
- Permanent Court of International Justice/International Court of Justice
- International Criminal Tribunals for Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda
- European Commission and European Court of Human Rights
- Inter-American Court and Commission of Human Rights
- United Nations Committee Against Torture
- United Nations Human Rights Committee
- Australia
- Belgium
- Canada
- France
- Ireland
- New Zealand
- United Kingdom
- United States Of America
- Miscellaneous
- Table of Treaties and Other Internationaland Regional Instruments
- Selected Abbreviations
- Online Resource Centre
- Main Text
- 1 The Refugee in International Law
- Part 1 Refugees
- 2 Refugees Defined and Described
- 1 Refugees
- 2 Refugees defined in international instruments 1922–46
- 3 Refugees for the purposes of the United Nations
- 4 Refugees in the sense of the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees
- 5 Regional approaches to refugee definition
- 6 Refugees in municipal law: some examples
- 7 Institutional responsibilities and international obligations
- 8 ‘Refugees’ for the purposes of general international law
- 3 Determination of Refugee Status: Analysis and Application
- 1 Respective competence of UNHCR and of States parties to the Convention and Protocol
- 2 Determination of refugee status by UNHCR
- 3 Determination of refugee status by States
- 4 The refugee definition and the reasons for persecution
- 5 Persecution: Issues of interpretation and application
- 5.1 Protected Interests
- 5.2 The Ways and Means of Persecution
- 5.3 Agents of Persecution
- 5.4 Fear, Intent, Motive, and the Rationale for Persecution
- 5.5 Persecution and Laws of General Application
- 5.6 Persecution and Situations of Risk
- 5.7 Children as Asylum Seekers and Refugees
- 6 Persecution and lack of protection
- 4 Loss and Denial of Refugee Status and its benefits
- 1 Voluntary acts of the individual
- 2 Change of circumstances
- 3 Protection or assistance by other States or United Nations agencies
- 4 Exclusion from refugee status
- 2 Refugees Defined and Described
- Part 2 Asylum
- 5 Non-Refoulement in the 1951 Refugee Convention
- 6 Protection under Human Rights and General International Law
- 1 The meaning of ‘complementary protection’
- 2 The history of complementary protection
- 3 Complementary protection at the international level
- 4 The 2004 European Union Qualification Directive
- 5 Status and exclusion from status
- 6 Non-refoulement in cases of mass influx and the development of ‘temporary protection’
- 7 Non-refoulement as a principle of customary international law
- 7 The Concept of Asylum
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Asylum in international conventions, other instruments, and acts
- 3 Asylum in regional agreements
- 4 Obstructing asylum: trends in State practice
- 5 International law responses
- 6 Non-admission policies: the ‘safe’ country and the concept of ‘effective protection’
- 7 Standards of treatment for asylum seekers and refugees
- 8 Conclusion
- Part 3 Protection
- 8 International Protection
- 1 International institutions
- 1.1 The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
- 1.2 The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)
- 1.3 The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
- 1.4 Other International and Intergovernmental Organizations and Agencies
- 2 The protection of refugees in international law
- 3 Palestinian refugees: nationality, statelessness, and protection
- 1 International institutions
- 9 Protection and Solutions
- 10 Treaty Standards and their Implementation in National Law
- 1 The 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees
- 2 Protection in national law: the refugee status determination procedure
- 3 The 2005 European Union Procedures Directive
- 4 Process in refugee status determination: getting to ‘Yes’; getting to ‘No’
- 5 The status of refugees and the termination of refugee status in national law
- 6 Afterword
- Annexes
- Table of Contents
- Annex 1 Basic Instruments
- 1 1946 Constitution of the International Refugee Organization—Extracts
- 2 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights—Extracts
- 3 1950 Statute of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- 4 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees
- 5 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees
- 6 1967 United Nations Declaration on Territorial Asylum
- 7 1984 United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment—Extracts
- 8 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child—Extracts
- 9 1987 Constitution of the International Organization for Migration
- 10 2001 Declaration of States Parties to the 1951 Convention and/or its 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees
- Annex 2 Selected Regional Instruments
- 1 1969 Convention on the specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa
- 2 1981 African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights—Extracts
- 3 1954 Caracas Convention on Territorial Asylum
- 4 1954 Caracas Convention on Diplomatic Asylum
- 5 1969 American Convention on Human Rights—Extracts
- 6 1981 Inter-American Convention on Extradition—Extracts
- 7 1984 Cartagena Declaration on Refugees
- 8 1950 European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms—Extracts
- 9 1963 Protocol No. 4 to the European Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms—Extracts
- 10 1957 European Convention on Extradition—Extracts
- 11 1975 Additional Protocol to the European Convention on Extradition—Extracts
- 12 1977 European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism—Extracts
- 13 2000 European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights—Extracts
- 14 2001 European Union Council Directive on Temporary Protection
- 15 2001 European Union Council Common Position on Combating Terrorism
- 16 2003 European Union Council Directive on the Reception of Asylum Seekers
- 17 2003 European Union Council Regulation on the Criteria and Mechanisms for Determining the Member State responsible for Examining an Asylum Application
- 18 2003 European Union Council Directive on the Right to Family reunification
- 19 2004 European Union Council Directive on Qualification and Status as Refugees or Persons otherwise in need of International Protection
- 20 2005 European Union Council Directive on Minimum Standards on Procedures for Granting and Withdrawing Refugee Status
- Annex 3 States Parties to the 1951 Convention, the 1967 Protocol, and the 1969 OAU Convention; Delegations Participating in the 1984 Cartagena Declaration; and Members of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme (at 31 January 2007)
- 8 International Protection
- Further Material
