#refugeelaw — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #refugeelaw, aggregated by home.social.
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Subsidiary Protection and Climate Refugees
The International Organization for Migration reports that, over recent decades, 218.6 million people have been internally displaced due to climate change, and some projections estimate that up to 1.2 billion people could become “climate refugees” by 2050.
Yet, there is no consensus on the definition of
#ClimateChange #MigrationLaw #RefugeeLaw
https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/subsidiary-protection-and-climate-refugees/
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S.S. and Others V. Italy
Recently, particularly in Europe, the obligations towards refugees and asylum seekers have become a game of cat and mouse, whereby obligations are created, and loopholes or other legally sound ways of dodging the obligation without violating any framework are found and exploited. As a result, the distressed civilian
#EuropeanCourtOfHumanRights #HumanRights #NonRefoulement #RefugeeLaw
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CW: Asylum, UK, Diego Garcia
As though the British military occupation of Diego Garcia in the Chagos Islands wasn't shameful enough, since 2021 dozens of Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka who arrived by boat have been detained in a tiny enclosure in tents - and the UK govt says international conventions on asylum don't apply there. Our own Guantanamo Bay.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-68326365
#DiegoGarcia #Tamils #AsylumUK #RefugeeLaw #AsylumLaw #InternationalHumanRights #ChagosIslands #SriLanka #BritishArmy #UKpol
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#Women in #Intlaw: Joint Symposium with the Women in #RefugeeLaw Network
Cristina María Zamora Gómez analyses the case of #ChildMarriages of Afghan girls as a form of gender and child-specific #persecution. #InternationalWomensDay #Afghanistan https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/forced-marriage-of-afghan-girls-and-the-bifurcated-approach-for-defining-persecution/
