23 February 2021

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items

Opportunities:

Webinar: 2020 A Year of Disasters in Review: Legal Assessments under International Disaster Law, 25 February 2021 [info]

Call for applications: New Editorial Board Members for the International Journal of Refugee Law [info]
- Apply by 5 March 2021.

CFP: Ageing Gracefully? The 1951 Refugee Convention at 70, 5th Annual Conference, Refugee Law Initiative (RLI), 9-11 June 2021 [info]
- Submit paper and panel proposals by 31 March 2021.

Blog posts:

The End of the Right to Seek Asylum? COVID-19 and Refugee Protection (Asylum Insight, Jan. 2021) [text

Hidden from view: Refugees’ contributions to the development of early international refugee law and policy (Kaldor Centre, Feb. 2021) [text]

How NGOs in the Global South are developing strategies for protecting asylum-seekers at a time of human rights retrenchment (Open Global Rights, Feb. 2021) [access]
- Follow link for text in English and Spanish.

Reports & journal articles:

"The Concept of 'International Protection' in the Global Compacts on Refugees and Migration," Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, vol. 23, no. 2 (2021) [preprint]

"Conscientious objectors seeking asylum: a comparative perspective," International Journal of Human Rights, vol. 25, no. 2 (2021) [postprint]
- Note: Access to the text is embargoed until 20 Oct. 2021. 

The Effectiveness of UNHCR's Supervision: Assessing the UN Refugee Agency's Supervisory Task regarding States' Compliance with the 1951 Refugee Convention and the 1967 Protocol, Dissertation (Univ. of Amsterdam, Feb. 2021) [info]
- Note: Access to the complete text is embargoed until 10 Feb. 2023. 

"Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations in Regard to Refugees and Migrants," Chapter in Routledge Handbook on Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations (Routledge, Forthcoming 2021) [preprint]

"A Forgotten History: Forcible Transfers and Deportations in International Criminal Law," Criminal Law Forum, Latest Articles, 29 Jan. 2021 [preprint]

"How Protected are the Refugees: A Comparative Study of the Contemporary States of Germany and India in Light of the Geneva Convention, 1951," Refugee Watch: A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration, no. 56 (Dec. 2020) [full-text]
- Scroll to p. 103.

"Opening up a new chapter of law‐making in international law: The 2018 Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees," European Law Journal, Early View, 18 Feb. 2021 [open access]

"Revisiting the Rule of Non-Refoulement and its Exceptions: Does Article 33(2) of the 1951 Refugee Convention Require the Application of the Principle of Proportionality?," African Yearbook of International Law Online, vol. 23 (2018; posted Dec. 2020) [abstract]

Related post:

No comments: