23 May 2025

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items

Short pieces:

Coherence across Internal Displacement Frameworks: Is it Time to Update the ‘Guiding Principles’? (RID Blog, May 2025) [text]

IACHR urges States to guarantee the rights of returned, deported, or expelled people (OAS, May 2025) [text]
- See also Spanish version.

Trump’s Deportations as an Emerging Crime Against Humanity (Opinio Juris, May 2025) [text]
- See also related OHCHR press release.

Reports: 

Adrift at Sea, State Obligations and the Plight of Sea-Bound Refugees (Univ. of Minnesota, May 2025) [text]

"Beyond Derogation: Context-Driven Interpretation of Migrants' Rights and the Risks of Circumventing Article 15 ECHR, MPIL Research Paper, no. 6 (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law & International Law, May 2025) [text via SSRN]

The Cessation of International Protection and Review of Protection Statuses in Europe, Legal Note, no. 17 (ECRE, May 2025) [text]

Global Protection Cluster Strategy 2025-2030: Collective Action for Effective Coordination and Quality Protection Responses (Protection Cluster, April 2025) [text]

Journal articles:

"Holding Out for Better Weather: Foreign Aid and the Principle of Humanity in Armed Conflicts and Natural Disasters," American Univ. International Law Review, vol. 40, no. 3 (2025) [full-text]

"Human Rights Obligations in Maritime Search and Rescue," International & Comparative Law Quarterly, vol. 74, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"Litigating Externalisation Policies: The Added Value of a Multi-Level Legal Order?," Refugee Survey Quarterly, Advance Articles, 2 May 2025 [open access]
- Focuses on "three externalisation policies: Australia’s offshore processing in Papua New Guinea and Nauru, the asylum partnership between the United Kingdom and Rwanda, and the Protocol between Italy and Albania."

"When a state seeks to deport non-citizens, who are its citizens? Determining membership in the twenty-first century," Griffith Law Review, Latest Articles, 9 May 2025 [open access]
- Introduction to forthcoming special issue that "draws together scholars writing about the mass deportation of non-citizens." Other open access articles that are a part of this collection focus on AustraliaChina, Europe, Myanmar and Switzerland.

Resource:

UNHCR Interventions before the European Court of Human Rights (UNHCR, updated May 2025) [access]

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