Essays about: "Geneva Convention"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 22 essays containing the words Geneva Convention.

  1. 1. Between Refugees’ Rights and State’s Interests: Securitization of Migration in Greece during the Refugee ‘Crisis’ in Europe

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

    Author : Emmanouil Anagnostou; [2021]
    Keywords : Migration; human rights; EU; Greece; securitization; refugees; non-refoulement principle; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the ongoing refugee ‘crisis’ in the EU, arguing that the EU’s approach towards the refugee issue largely speaks for the establishment of a new phase of migration in Europe. As opposed to the previous phase in the aftermath of the Cold War where a common European refugee policy was evident, today, each of the Union’s member-states seems to emphasize on its own migration policy in order to protect its national interests and security. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Stranger’s Case : Refugees and Moral Rights

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

    Author : Karin Jardstam; [2019]
    Keywords : Philosophy Etics Refugees Asylum Human Rights; Filosofi Etik Flyktingar Asyl Mänskliga rättigheter;

    Abstract : Using the events in Sweden in the autumn of 2015 as a practical example, this paper examines the question of whether there are circumstances when it is morally permissible for rich, democratic states to close their borders to asylum-seekers. To lay a common ground, the author starts by looking at the right of asylum-seekers, who a refugee is, and what obligations a host country have towards them. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Principle of Distinction in Modern Warfare

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Alice Ribbenvik; [2018]
    Keywords : Public international law; international humanitarian law; the principle of distinction; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Distinktionsprincipen är en av de mest fundamentala principerna i internationell humanitär rätt. Distinktionsprincipen grundades i St. Petersburgdeklarationen från 1868 och syftade till att minska det dödliga våldet mot civila i väpnade konflikter. READ MORE

  5. 4. Turkey as a safe third country? - A study on the safe third country concept and its compliance with non-refoulement

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Deria Rumina Yenidogan; [2017]
    Keywords : Public international law; Asylum; Safe Third Country; Turkey; European Union; Asylum Procedures Directive; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : In 2016 the EU and Turkey reached an agreement with the goal to end “irregular migration” from Turkey to the EU. Under this agreement asylum seekers who have entered Greece via Turkey will have their asylum applications deemed as inadmissible on safe third country grounds and subsequently be returned to Turkey. READ MORE

  6. 5. A New Era of Terror : An Investigation of Non-International Armed Conflict and the Islamic State’s Transnational Crusade for World Domination

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Kader Såma; [2016]
    Keywords : international humanitarian law; Article 3; Geneva Convention IV Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War; Geneva IV Convention; IS; ISIS; ISI; Islamic State; terrorism; Iraq; transnational; non-international armed conflict;

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