19 September 2025

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 2

Reports: 

Externalised asylum and migration policies and human rights law (COE Commissioner for Human Rights, Sept. 2025) [text via Refworld]

Note on International Protection: Note by the High Commissioner, 76th Session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme, UN Doc. No. A/AC.96/76/3 (UN General Assembly, July 2025) [text]

Quantitative Methods for Comparative Immigration Law, MMG Working Paper, no. 25-02 (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious & Ethnic Diversity, 2025) [text via SSRN]

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Gehad Madi: Externalization of migration governance and its effect on the human rights of migrants, UN Doc. No. A/80/302 (UN General Assembly, Aug. 2025) [access]
- Available in the UN languages.

RLI Policy Briefs on Externalisation (Refugee Law Initiative, 2025) 

Route-Based Approach: From Strategy to Action (UNHCR, Sept. 2025) [text]
- "This briefing note provides an update on the steps taken by UNHCR to advance the implementation of the route-based approach to mixed and onward movements. It describes key guidance and policy workstreams underpinning the operationalization of the route-based approach, and it offers practical guidance for implementation and resources that may be of interest to Member States in responding to complex cross-border movements of refugees and asylum-seekers." Note: See section IX, "Further Resources and Ongoing Updates," for other documents that focus on the route-based approach.

Temporary Protection for Ukrainians in the EU, UK, and Canada, RLI Working Paper, no. 78 (Refugee Law Initiative, July 2025) [text]

Multimedia:

The Core Paradox of International Refugee Law, 7 Nov. 2024 [access]

Refugee Law Initiative, 15th Anniversary Conference, 2 June 2025 [access]
- Follow the a/m link to access the programme along with presentations and recordings. One of the keynote addresses included "From Dusty Sidewalks to Halls of Power: Rethinking Refugee Law through an Ethnographic Lens." 

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