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Leading scholars and practitioners address the challenges in the adjudication of refugee claims from those fleeing violence and conflict.
List of contents
Notes on contributors and editors; Foreword Filippo Grandi; List of abbreviations; Introduction Volker Türk, Alice Edwards and Cornelis Wouters; Part I. Causes, Character and Effects: 1. The causes, character and conduct of internal armed conflict, and the effects on civilian populations Theo Farrell and Olivier Schmitt; Part II. Refugee Status under Global and Regional Instruments: 2. The 1951 Refugee Convention and the protection of people fleeing armed conflict and other situations of violence Vanessa Holzer; 3. Relationship between the 1951 Refugee Convention and the 1969 OAU Convention on Refugees: a historical perspective Bonaventura Rutinwa; 4. The 1969 OAU Refugee Convention in the context of individual refugee status determination Marina Sharpe; 5. The Cartagena Declaration on Refugees and the protection of people fleeing: armed conflict and other situations of violence in Latin America Michael Reed-Hutardo; Part III. Refugee Status and Special Groups: 6. Women and girls fleeing conflict: gender and the interpretation and application of the 1951 Refugee Convention Valerie Oosterveld; 7. Children fleeing conflict: age and the interpretation and application of the 1951 Refugee Convention Rachel Brett, Margaret Brett and Haifa Rashed; Part IV. Subsidiary Protection: 8. Protection in the EU for people fleeing indiscriminate violence in armed conflict: Article 15(c) of the EU Qualification Directive Madeline Garlick; Appendix I; Appendix II; Index.
About the author
Volker Türk is United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees's Assistant High Commissioner for Protection.Alice Edwards is Head of the Secretariat of the Convention against Torture Initiative.Cornelis Wouters is the senior refugee law advisor at the Division of International Protection of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva.
Summary
The impact of violence and conflict on refugee protection is increasingly relevant to practitioners, governmental decision-makers and judges, scholars, students and international and non-governmental organizations. This book is a timely contribution to the legal literature dealing with international refugee law in respect of asylum claimants.
