24 March 2026

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items

Opportunities:

Call for submissions: IJRL/ACMRL Workshop for Prospective Authors, Online, June 2026 [info]
- Submission deadline is 12 April 2026.

Seminar: Safe third country concept: A tool for containment and illegalization of mobility, Online, 15 April 2026 [info]

Call for registration: 51st Online Course on International Refugee Law (English), 18 May–26 June 2026 [info]
- Register by 20 April 2026.

Short pieces:

Rights in danger? How the EU’s new regulation on crisis situations undermines the principle of non-refoulement (RLI Blog, March 2026) [text]

State exploitation of regime fragmentation: A case study of Sudan’s weaponisation of an institutional gap in the international protection legal framework (RLI Blog, March 2026) [text]

Why Migration Definitions Still Matter for Refugee Protection (RLI Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]

Reports:

14th World Conference of the International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges, Nairobi, 17-21 November 2025 [access]
- Follow link for conference documents & report, a selection of papers, and video of the opening ceremony.

Accessible Legal Aid for Asylum Seekers (UNHCR, March 2026) [text]

Navigating Discretion in Refugee Protection: How Humanitarian Organisations Can Make a Positive Impact?, RLI Working Paper, no. 82 (Refugee Law Initiative, March 2026) [text]

Journal articles:

"Credibility as a Fuzzy Concept in Refugee Law: A Systematic Literature Review," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 5 Feb. 2026 [preprint]

"Le droit d’asile face au droit pĂ©nal," Revue des droits de l'Homme, no. 29 (2026) [open access]

"Evolving asylum deterrence practices in Africa: The case of Tunisia and South Africa," Rivista di Diritti Comparati, no. 3 (2025) [open access]

"International Refugee Law: From a Self-Contained Regime to an International Protection Framework," Refugee Survey Quarterly, Advance Articles, 12 Feb. 2026 [open access

"Legally Excluded, Structurally Persecuted: Rethinking Asylum Beyond the Refugee–Economic Migrant Divide," Journal on Migration and Human Security, OnlineFirst, 19 March 2026 [full-text]

"The twice displaced: UNHCR’s role in evacuations," International Journal of Refugee Law, Advance Articles, 15 Feb. 2026 [open access

Multimedia:

Non-refoulement: legal issues around the return of refugees, 10 Feb. 2026 [access]

*Responsibility Sharing in International Refugee Law: Towards Common but Differentiated Legal Obligations, 11 March 2026 [access]

*UPDATED

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