Select Table of Cases
Chapter 1. Aim and Scope
7. Methodology and Sources
Chapter 2. Basic Concepts and Discourse
1. Asylum and International Protection
1.1. Typologies of Protection
2.1. The Genesis of Convention Refugee Status
2.2. A Broadened Category of Externally Displaced
The Concept of International Protection as a Joint
Chapter 3. The Principle of International Cooperation - Aspects of Its
1.1. Canvassing for International Cooperation in Refugee Affairs - Failed
Efforts Between Two World Wars
1.2.4. Partnerships - New Semantics or New Practices?
1.2.5. The Absence of Common Meaning and Understanding
1.3. Incentives for Providing International Aid and Assistance
1.3.1. An Expression of Charity
1.3.2. Direct International Concern and Implications
1.3.3. Other Reasons for International Concern
2.1. The Charter of the United Nations
2.2. International Customary Law
2.3. General Principles of International Law
2.4. Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly
Relations and Co-operation among States in accordance with the Charter
Of the United Nations
3. International Human Rights Law
3.1. A Right and Duty of States to International Cooperation?
3.2. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
3.3. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
3.4. The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
3.5. The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
3.6. The Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman Degrading
3.7. The Convention on the Rights of the Child
4. International Refugee Law
4.1. Article 35 in the 1951 Refugee Convention
4.1.1. The Negotiating History
4.1.2. Interpretation and Implementation in Practice
4.3. The Final Act
4.4. The Declaration on Territorial Asylum
4.5. The Draft Convention on Territorial Asylum
Aspects of Physical Protection in Law and Practice
Chapter 4. Humanitarian Actors and International Law Obligations
1.1. The Notion of Humanitarian Assistance
1.2. The Rationale of Camps
2. Non-state Actors and Minimum Standards of Performance
3.1. Responsibilities under the Mandate
3.1.1. A Responsibility to Protect
3.1.2. A Responsibility to Assist
3.1.3. A Responsibility to Seek Solutions
3.2. Institutional Background and Conditions
3.4.2. International Customary Law
3.4.3. International Human Rights Law
4.1. The Growth of NGOs in International Affairs
4.2. Aspects of Legal Obligations
4.3. Codes of Conduct
4.3.1. Code of Conduct for the Red Cross and the Red Crescent
Movement and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
4.3.2. The Sphere Project
6. Humanitarian Aid with Military Assistance
6.1. Merging Mandates and Tasks
6.2.1. The UN Charter
6.2.2. International Humanitarian Law
6.2.3. International Human Rights Law
7. Refugee Services as Part of a Broader Trend and Context
Chapter 5. The Prohibition of Mass Expulsion and Refoulement
1.1. Terminology of Forced Return
2. International Refugee Law
2.1. Expulsion of Refugees Lawfully Present
2.2. The Prohibition of Refoulement and Return
2.2.1. Non-refoulement to Countries or Areas in War or Armed Conflict
2.2.2. Extraterritorial Application of the Principle of Non-refoulement?
2.2.3. The Prohibition of Refoulement and its Application in Situations
Of Actual or Anticipated Mass Refugee Influx
2.2.4. National Security and Danger to the Community Exceptions
3.1. The Prohibition of Discrimination
3.2. The Prohibition of Arbitrariness
3.2.1. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
3.2.2. The European Convention on Establishment
3.2.3. Protocol No. 4 to the European Convention on Human Rights
3.2.4. Protocol No. 7 to the European Convention on Human Rights
3.3. The Right to Physical Integrity
3.3.1. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
3.3.2. The Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment
3.3.3. The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights
3.4. Mass Expulsion of Aliens during Public Emergencies - is it ever
3.4.1. The Prohibition of Discrimination during Public Emergencies
3.4.2. Economic and Social Incapacities
Chapter 6. Mass Expulsion in Practice
2. Admission Conditioned, Delayed or Denied for Kosovar Refugees on the
2.3. National Legislation and International Obligations
3. Summary Return of Myanmar Refugees from the Thai - Myanmar Border
3.2.1. Refugees on the Thai - Myanmar Border
3.3. National Legislation and International Obligations
4. Mass Expulsion of Rwandese Refugees from the United Republic of
4.3. National Legislation and International Obligations
Chapter 7. Summary of Conclusions
1.1. The Principle of International Cooperation
1.2. Humanitarian Actors in International Law
1.3. The Prohibition of Mass Expulsion
Postscript: Protection of Aliens in a Historical Perspective
1. Disconnected Societies and the Movement of Persons
1.1. Asylum in the Ancient World
1.2. Citizenship and Rights
1.3. The Medieval World
2. Nation States, Refugees and Politics of Identity
2.1. The State and the Individual
2.3. The movement of persons - shifting trends and policies
2.4. National Affiliation and measures of Exclusion
2.5. The evolution of International law and standards for the treatment of