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The right of asylum, sometimes called right of political asylum (asylum from Ancient Greek ἄσυλον (ásulon) 'sanctuary'), [1] [2] is a juridical concept, under which people persecuted by their own rulers might be protected by another sovereign authority, such as a second country or another entity which in medieval times could offer sanctuary.
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The Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, also known as the 1951 Refugee Convention or the Geneva Convention of 28 July 1951 is a United Nations multilateral treaty that defines who a refugee is and sets out the rights of individuals who are granted asylum and the responsibilities of nations that grant asylum.
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Church asylum or sanctuary, a right to be safe from arrest in the sanctuary of a church or temple; Lunatic asylum or mental asylum, a historical term for psychiatric hospital; Orphan asylum, orphanage; Right of asylum, refuge from persecution in another country
Livy seems to speak of the right of asylum as peculiar to the Greeks. [ 6 ] By a constitutio of Antoninus Pius , it was decreed that if a slave in a province fled to the temples of the gods or the statues of the emperors to avoid the ill-usage of his master, the praeses could compel the master to sell the slave, [ 7 ] and the slave was not ...
The Code of Foreigners was created at the initiative of Dominique de Villepin, then Minister of the Interior. The Code of Entry and Residence of Foreigners and of the Right to Asylum [1] (French: Code de l'entrée et du séjour des étrangers et du droit d'asile, CESEDA), often simply referred to as the Code of Foreigners (Code des étrangers), is the legal code compiling French laws and ...
The right to non-refoulement is distinct from the right to seek asylum, and respecting the right to asylum means that states must not deport genuine refugees [86]. The right to non-refoulement also applies to individuals who may not have formally sought asylum but would still be at risk if returned to their country of origin, and states must be ...