International Law

An asylum seeker generally has several opportunities, through initial interviews and applications, to affidavits and testimony in court, to tell his or her story.  These opportunities create multiple records of the asylum seeker’s story. Decision makers in the United States examine these records for inconsistencies, by looking at facts omitted or added at any point …

The Negative Effects of Relying on Inconsistencies to Determine Credibility in Asylum Claims Involving an Initial Omission of Sexual Assault Read More »

In international refugee law and under EU asylum law, an individual must demonstrate both that they face a risk of serious harm and that they lack state protection from that harm to qualify for refugee status. On 20 January 2021, the CJEU delivered a judgement on the question of ‘protection’ in the country of origin …

The Concept of ‘Protection’ by Non-State Actors in the Country of Origin and the Revocation of the Refugee Status Read More »

Francesco Maiani Editorial Advisory Panel Associate Professor, Centre of Comparative, European and International Law, University of Lausanne  Introduction: The Cyclical Crises of The Common European Asylum System In 2015-2016, the Schengen common travel area and the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) risked a complete meltdown. The story has been told elsewhere on RefLaw: one million refugees landed in Greece and …

Regional Disembarkation Platforms” and “Controlled Centres”: Lifting The Drawbridge, Reaching out Across The Mediterranean, or Going Nowhere? Read More »

In April, the UN issued a press statement regarding the desperate condition of Yarmouk, a Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus, Syria. Due to fighting between the Islamic State, Aknaf Beit Al-Maqdis (a Palestinian faction), and the Al-Nusra Front (an Al-Qaeda affiliate), UN agencies have been unable to bring much-needed humanitarian aid to Yarmouk. The camp falls under the jurisdiction …

Palestinian Refugees and the Protection Gap Read More »

In a Chamber judgment of 1 September 2015 in Khlaifia and Others v Italy, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) held Italy in violation of Article 4 of Protocol 4 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) regarding the collective expulsion of aliens. Furthermore, the Court held violations of Article 5 (1) (right to liberty …

Khlaifia and Others v Italy: Italy again held in violation of collective expulsions by ECtHR Read More »

In 2013, around one in five people who sought individual refugee status determination applied not to a government, but to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). While sjukskrivningar UNHCR reports wholesale nfl jerseys that individual asylum applications as a whole rose globally from 2012 to 2013 by 15 percent, the burden of that increase was disproportionately absorbed by UNHCR, with a …

UNHCR Faces an RSD Crisis Read More »