States have the primary responsibility to conduct RSD, however, UNHCR may conduct RSD under its mandate when a state is not a party to the 1951 Refugee Convention and/or does not have a fair and ...

All state signatories to the Refugee Convention are obligated to receive asylum seekers who arrive in their territory.

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With the suspension of the United States’ refugee resettlement programme, Malaysia needs to redirect its refugee management ...

EXCLUSIVE: As the EU looks to tighten its immigration laws, the UK could do the same, potentially leading to the Rwanda ...

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Japan is a signatory to the Refugee Convention, which defines a refugee as a person who has fled his or her home country because of fears of persecution on racial, religious or other grounds.

The Attorney General argued that a Zimbabwean militia member should be granted asylum in the UK. In 2012, Lord Hermer fought ...

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The senate committee on foreign affairs, cooperation, and security, on Wednesday, February 5, presented findings of its visits to various refugee camps across the country, where among other things, ...

Toppling Bashar Assad does not mean that Syria is at peace. The 1951 Refugee Convention espouses the principle of non-refoulement — that refugees cannot be returned against their will to a war zone.