Essays about: "the 1951 Refugee Convention"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 23 essays containing the words the 1951 Refugee Convention.
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16. Review of Asylum Policies and Procedures in The Bahamas: Are Current Policies and Procedures Consistent with International Instruments for the Protection of Refugees?
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : Volatile conflicts, poverty and suppression of basic human rights stemming from one's political or religious affiliations, gender and race, are some of the various reasons why thousands flee home in the hopes of finding some kind of security. As the world observes the appalling deterioration of conflicts in Western Sudan, Iraq and Haiti, we simultaneously observe neighbouring or developed countries securing their borders in an effort to prevent an influx of refugees on to their territories. READ MORE
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17. The Second Sex - A Feminist Analysis of International and Swedish Refugee Law
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis is written from a feminist perspective examining female asylum-seekers in international and Swedish refugee law. The question for this thesis is whether the refugee instruments are gender-sensitive and give women and men equal access to protection. READ MORE
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18. Humanitarian intervention, a refugee reducing or increasing action?- a case study on Iraq
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : My thesis is a case study on the intervention in Iraq 2003, which was intensely debated prior the intervention and the debate is not yet concluded. My purpose is to analyse whether the intervention may be seen as a humanitarian intervention according to the criterions stipulated by the ICISS's report on the ''Responsibility to Protect'' and other authors' views about what justify a humanitarian intervention. READ MORE
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19. The International System of Refugee Protection: A Regime Analysis
University essay from Ekonomiska institutionenAbstract : The thesis examines the international refugee protection system in order to discover whether or not the system constitutes an international regime, as defined by international relations literature. To do so, it formulates a theoretical framework combining neoliberal and constructivist approaches to regime theory. READ MORE
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20. Refugee Protection in the framework of the Common European Asylum System
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : The foundation of International Refugee Law was laid down in the early 1950s by the creation of the UNHCR and the Geneva Convention of July 28 1951Relating to the Status of Refugees (hereinafter the Geneva Convention) and its 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees. Refugees and asylum seekers are not only protected through the relatively limited refugee law but also through general human rights instruments. READ MORE
