Course Contents:
Introduction to International Refugee Law: Evolution, Background and Context; Refugees defined: Inclusion, exclusion and cessation clauses, definition in International instruments, refugees under 1951 Convention, 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees, refugees under the statute of UNHCR, refugees and international obligations; Determination of refugee status: Determination by UNHCR and States Parties, preliminary analysis of definition; Persecution: Grounds for persecution, ways and means of persecution, persecution and lack of protection; Loss and denial of refugee status and its benefits: Voluntary acts of the individual, change of circumstances, protection by other States or UN agencies, undeserving cases, serious non-political crimes; Asylum and non-refoulement: General concept, asylum in international conventions, principle of non-refoulement, scope of the principle of non-refoulement, measures not amounting to refoulement, non-refoulement and asylum in cases of mass influx; International protection: Protection of refugees in general international law, refugees and human rights, protection under 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocol, international institutions (UNHCR, IOM, UNWRA, RED CROSS, NGOs); General protection issues: Detention, access, personal security, women refugees, child refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced people; Solution and prevention: Voluntary repatriation, safe return, resettlement, assistance and development, preventive protection, international cooperation; Migration: concept and background, forms of migration, regular, irregular, forced migration, causes of migration, migration as a fundamental right, the need for international human rights standards, international instruments protecting rights of migrant workers, UN Migrant Workers Convention 1990, key features, ILO standards protecting rights of migrant workers; Nationality and statelessness: Concept and definition, Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons 1954, Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness 1954, protection measures;