07 July 2025

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Blog series on the application of refugee law in military service-related cases (RLI Blog, June 2025) [access]

Is There a Duty to Repatriate in International Law? (EJIL: Talk Blog, July 2025) [text]
- See also related post on The Conversation that focuses on Australian citizens in Iran and Israel.

Now Is the Time to Uphold the Rule of Law for Refugee Protection: UN and regional experts (Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, June 2025) [text]

The protection paradox: How refugee law fails those fleeing failed states (The Interpreter Blog, July 2025) [text]

Reports: 

93rd Meeting of the Standing Committee, Geneva, 17-19 June 2025 [access]
- Follow link for documents, oral remarks and presentations. Issues discussed during this protection-focused session of the SC included the Note on International Protection, durable solutions & complementary pathways, community-based protection, asylum capacity development, UNHCR engagement with IDPs, and efforts to measure the impact of hosting refugees. Note that not all documentation has been posted. See also related NGO statements.

Practical Guide on Membership of a Particular Social Group (EU Agency for Asylum, May 2025) [text]

Summary Conclusions of the Expert Roundtable on travel documents for persons in need of international protection and stateless persons, Colchester, UK, 22-23 Oct. 2024 [text]

Summary Conclusions of the UNHCR Expert Roundtables on Effective Practices in Protection and Displacement (UNHCR, June 2025) [text]

Summary of the UNHCR Guidance on Article 31 of the 1951 Convention (GIP 14) (UNHCR, June 2025) [text]

Multimedia:

Human Mobility and International Law, EJIL: The Podcast, no. 35 (30 June 2025) [access]

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