28 July 2026

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items

Short pieces:

Beyond the Dotted Line: Navigating the Fine Print of Asylum in Lebanon and Norway (RLI Blog, July 2026) [text]

Reports:

96th Standing Committee Meeting, Geneva, 16-18 June 2026 [access]
- Protection-related session. Follow link for English- and French-language meeting documents, remarks/oral updates and presentations. See also related NGO statements on ICVA's website.

Independent Declaration on the Right of Persons with Experience of Forced Displacement or Statelessness to Participate in Decisions That Affect Them (Kaldor Centre, Dec. 2025) [access]
- Follow link for the text of the declaration, with commentary, and the consultation report. The companion website provides access to a Spanish-language of the declaration, as well as information on how to endorse it.

Intersecting Regimes: The Convergence of International Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, and International Refugee Law, RLI Working paper, no. 85 (Refugee Law Initiative, June 2026) [text]

Journal articles:

"Integrating Gender Equality into International Refugee Law: The Contribution of the Court of Justice of the European Union," European Journal of International Law, vol. 37, no. 1 (Feb. 2026) [open access]

"An international human rights law of migration? Reflections on the place of a right to immigrate," International Journal of Migration and Border Studies (Forthcoming, 2026) [open access]

"Outsourcing Migration: A Comparative Analysis of Border Externalization and the Future of International Refugee Law," Loyola Univ. Chicago International Law Review, vol. 22, no. 2 (2026) [full-text]

"A sign of precarity or protection? Understanding the role of evacuations from disasters in international protection claims," International Journal of Refugee Law, Advance Articles, 22 July 2026 [open access]

Resource:

ACCESS Mid-Term Dataset: The Role of Courts in Shaping Access to Asylum (2026) [access]
“The ACCESS project's mid-term dataset is a repository of the 555 most relevant national court decisions on access to asylum, compiled through April 2026. It covers the 18 jurisdictions analysed in the project, encompassing judgments from trial, appellate, and supreme or constitutional courts. Each entry provides key case metadata, the specific barriers addressed, and an English-language summary of the decision.” The full name of the project is "Gatekeepers to International Refugee Law? The Role of Courts in Shaping Access to Asylum." See more info on its website.

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