12 October 2024

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items

Short pieces:

Evacuations in Armed Conflict: A Fine Line Between a Life-Saving Measure and Forced Displacement (EJIL: Talk Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

Keynote address at the Refugee Law Initiative Annual Conference, 3 June 2024 [text]
- Theme is "Reinforcing rights and legal principles in the face of global challenges: the Global Compact on Refugees."

Reports & journal articles:

"The African Guiding Principles on the Rights of Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers (Afr. Comm'n H.P.R.)," International Legal Materials, vol. 63, no. 3 (June 2024) [open access]

AJIL Unbound, vol. 118 (2024) [open access]
- Theme is "Symposium on Unsettling the Sovereign 'Right to Exclude'," with a preface and seven articles.

Interim Report: The Right to Enter (ILA Committee on International Migration and International Law, 2024) [text via Refworld]

Legal considerations on asylum and non-refoulement in the context of ‘instrumentalization’ (UNHCR, Sept. 2024) [text]
- "The term ‘instrumentalization’ has been used, including in some national and supra-national legislation, to describe movements of persons which are forced, encouraged or facilitated with the aim of disrupting essential State functions."

"'Nowhere home'," London Review of International Law, vol. 12, no. 2 (July 2024) [open access]
- "This essay explores the concept of home in international law, the role of international law in the global regime of homemaking, and the prospects and limits of criminalising the destruction of home." Focuses on Gaza.

"A Primer on Trauma-Informed Practice in Refugee Law," Bond Law Review, vol. 36, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"Toward a Taxonomy of Freedom of Movement Claims: Identifying Rights-Based Pathways for Today’s Refugees Beyond the 1951 Refugee Convention," Harvard International Law Journal, vol. 65, no. 2 (2024) [full-text]

Resource:

Platform of Independent Experts on Refugee Rights (PIERR) [access]
- "The Platform of Independent Experts on Refugee Rights brings together independent human rights experts from the UN and regional systems to address areas of concern and cooperate on joint initiatives to enhance the protection and promotion of human rights of refugees and asylum-seekers." This press release provides more info.

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