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Refugee law is the branch of international law which deals with the rights and duties states have vis-a-vis refugees. There are differences of opinion among international law scholars as to the relationship between refugee law and international human rights law or humanitarian law .
Prior to the 1951 convention, the League of Nations' Convention relating to the International Status of Refugees, of 28 October 1933, dealt with administrative measures such as the issuance of Nansen certificates, refoulement, legal questions, labour conditions, industrial accidents, welfare and relief, education, fiscal regime and exemption from reciprocity, and provided for the creation of ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... The International Journal of Refugee Law is a peer reviewed academic journal of the law relating to forced ...
The Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees is a key treaty in international refugee law.It entered into force on 4 October 1967, and 146 countries are parties. The 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees restricted refugee status to those whose circumstances had come about "as a result of events occurring before 1 January 1951", as well as giving states party to ...
International Law and the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Julius Stone; The Feasibility of the Right of Return by Salman Abu-Sittah; Palestinian Refugees and the Right of Return: An International Law Analysis by Gail J. Boling; The Palestinian Refugees and the non-existence of the Right of Return, Ben-Dror Yemini
His monograph "Nationality and statelessness in international law" is a standard work. [5] He died on 6 February 1991 in Geneva. For his work relating to the rights of refugees, Weis was awarded the Nansen Refugee Award posthumously in 1991.
The United States recognizes the right of asylum of individuals as specified by international and federal law. In accordance with international law, the United States considers asylum candidates on the basis of persecution or fear they will be persecuted on account of race, religion, nationality, and/or membership in a particular social group ...
James Hathaway (born 1956) is a Canadian-American scholar of international refugee law and related aspects of human rights and public international law.His work has been frequently cited by the most senior courts of the common law world, and has played a pivotal role in the evolution of refugee studies scholarship.