Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items

Opportunities:

Check out this post for legal-related online courses provided by the International Institute of Humanitarian Law (IIHL).

Blog posts:

Women in International Law Symposium (Völkerrechtsblog, March 2023) [access]

- "This year, the symposium will focus on women in international refugee law and will host a series of blogposts, authored by members of the ‘Women in International Refugee Law’ network, on the contemporary struggles of women and girls seeking asylum and on current developments in this context."

Reports: 

Asylum for Containment: EU arrangements with Niger, Serbia, Tunisia and Turkey = L’endiguement par l’asile: Dispositifs de l’UE avec le Niger, la Serbie, la Tunisie et la Turquie (ASILE Project, March 2023) [access]

- Follow link for report in English and French.

External Processing: A Tool to Expand Protection or Further Restrict Territorial Asylum? (Migration Policy Institute, Feb. 2023) [text]

Towards a Human Rights-Based Approach to Migration: Training Guide, Professional Training Series, no. 26 (OHCHR, March 2023) [text]

Journal articles:

"Country Guidance, Country of Origin Information, and the International Protection Needs of Persons Fleeing Armed Conflicts," Refugee Survey Quarterly, Advance Articles, 28 March 2023 [open access]

"Geneva Declaration on Human Rights at Sea: An Endeavor to Connect Law of the Sea and International Human Rights Law," Ocean Development & International Law, vol. 53, nos. 2-3 (2022) [preprint]

"The Influence of International Criminal Law on Refugee Law," Frontiers in Human Dynamics, Accepted 1 March 2023 [abstract]

- The final open access version will be published soon.

"The International Organization for Migration and New Global Migration Governance," Harvard Journal of International Law, vol. 63, no. 2 (Spring 2022) [full-text]

"Pushback of Refugees Under International Law: A Conceptual Analysis," Annales de la Faculté de Droit d’Istanbul, no. 71 (2022) [full-text]

"What Ukraine, Afghanistan, and Syria Have Taught Us About the Politics of International Refugee Law," TRC Journal of Humanitarian Action, vol. 1, no. 2 (2022) [open access]

Multimedia:

Decolonizing Refugee Law, 16 March 2023 [access]

Safeguarding the right to international protection, PROTECT Final Conference, Brussels,, 6-8 March 2023 [access]

- Follow link for video recordings of the keynote speeches.

Resource:

Refugee Law Teaching Support Initiative (RELATE) (Hungarian Helsinki Committee) [access]

- This website aims to support refugee law educators by providing access to free training materials, multimedia, and other relevant resources. Recently, RELATE published a Manual for Teachers of International Refugee Law, "a free model syllabus aimed at guiding junior educators to prepare and launch their first teaching activities in refugee law and international protection. It includes relevant, freely available international legal and soft law instruments, international and domestic jurisprudence, training manuals, reports, articles, and audiovisual resources."

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 1 (21 Feb. 2023)

- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 2 (21 Feb. 2023)