• 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...
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    Canadian immigration and refugee law concerns the area of law related to the admission of foreign nationals into Canada, their rights and responsibilities...
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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...
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  • The Refugee Law Project (RLP) is a human rights organization and NGO that was established in 1999 as an outreach project of the school of Law of Makerere...
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    A refugee, conventionally speaking, is a person who has lost the protection of their country of origin and who cannot or is unwilling to return there...
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  • Russian Federation's Law on Refugees defines who is a refugee for purposes of obtaining asylum in the country. The Law defines a refugee as a "person who...
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    according to the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees or regionally applicable refugee laws—such as the European Convention on Human Rights, if...
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  • and during the 1967 Six-Day War. Most Palestinian refugees live in or near 68 Palestinian refugee camps across Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank...
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    national refugee law, but it has always accepted refugees from neighbouring countries using the principles enunciated by Jawaharlal Nehru in 1959: refugees will...
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  • 1995, the first UNHCR Chair for Refugee Law was inaugurated at NLSIU, which serves as the Asian Centre for Refugee Law. Professor N. Subramanya worked...
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    International Journal of Refugee Law. Erika Feller, Volker Türk, Frances Nicholson (eds.): Refugee Protection in International Law. Cambridge University...
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  • International Refugee Law. Retrieved 16 July 2019. "Kaldor Centre principles for Australian refugee policy: Summary and key priorities" (PDF). UNSW Law. June...
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  • institutions. In 2002 the GoC started undertaking RSD on its own. The first Refugee Law enacted in Parliament in 2000 has been amended in 2002, 2004, 2005 and...
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  • and trucial Law of Nations is a principle and a fundamental part in the 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees non-refoulement...
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    University of London, and is completing her PhD in International Refugee Law at the Law Faculty of Amsterdam University. She is an Affiliate Scholar at...
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    specified by international and federal law. People who seek protection while outside the U.S. are termed refugees, while people who seek protection from...
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    conditions of their removal. The primary law on these matters is in the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. Inheritance law in Canada is constitutionally a...
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    States Refugee Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-212) is an amendment to the earlier Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 and the Migration and Refugee Assistance...
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    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...
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    borders. They are often referred to as refugees, although they do not fall within the legal definitions of a refugee. In 2022, it was estimated there were...
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    The Turkish migrant crisis, sometimes referred to as the Turkish refugee crisis, was a period during the 2010s characterised by a high number of people...
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    26, 1963) is a Tanzanian-born Muslim Canadian of Indian origin who is a refugee and immigration lawyer, and human rights activist on issues including gender...
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  • International relations INTERPOL Prize law Refugee law Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) UNIDROIT Rule of Law in Armed Conflicts Project (RULAC)...
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  • The International Journal of Refugee Law is a peer reviewed academic journal of the law relating to forced migration. It is published by Oxford University...
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  • Refugees of the Syrian civil war are citizens and permanent residents of Syria who have fled the country throughout the Syrian civil war. The pre-war population...
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  • he was diagnosed with HIV back in 1999 while living in a refugee shelter, but Polish law does not force an HIV carrier to reveal his or her disease...
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  • B. S. Chimni (category Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law people)
    international law member at Jindal Global Law School. His areas of expertise include international law, international trade law and international refugee law. He...
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    immigration law and policy went through significant changes, most notably with the Immigration Act, 1976, and the current Immigration and Refugee Protection...
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  • International human rights law International regulation Refugee law Rule of law Rule according to higher law Soft law Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties "customary...
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    Shatila refugee camp (Arabic: مخيم شاتيلا), also known as the Chatila refugee camp, is a settlement originally set up for Palestinian refugees in 1949...
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