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By Daniele Joly
This e-book examines convergent developments in asylum regimes worldwide. It covers the most areas of the area the place asylum is a serious challenge: Europe, Africa, and relevant the United States. It additionally appears on the significant matters: human rights, non-governmental association involvement, gender, go back, finished coverage, european harmonization, foreign intervention, and transitority safety.
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The purpose of refugee relief, after all, is to offer protection. And if individuals are not being protected then refugee relief is not doing what it was intended to do. This position, of course, is too extreme. But it is essential that we do not retreat to a position (the one that we are at now) where the existence of gross and systematic levels of human rights abuses is treated as having little bearing in terms of considering the effectiveness of refugee protection. The point here – and it is a point that comes screaming out of the pages of both the State Department and the Amnesty International Country reports – is that most of the violence in the world is quite predictable.
I will try to explain why I believe they are myths and why they are dangerous. They are the following: 1. the international community has made significant progress in protecting universal human rights since the end of the Second World War; 2. universal human rights principles (including asylum and refugee law) are respected in the developed world but for various reasons are nearly impossible to enforce in the developing world; 3. the international community, particularly through the work of UNHCR and its NGO partners, ensures that most refugees are provided with protection and assistance consistent with acceptable international minimum standards; and 4.
I speak as a practitioner, having spent much of the past ten years in the field dealing with the victims of human rights violations. I have served with the UNHCR in Turkey, Bosnia, Djibouti, as part of the emergency team deployed to the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville) in June 1997, and with the Canadian Foreign Service in Ottawa and the Philippines. I have seen children decapitated by Bosnian Serb artillery in Srebrenica and wounded and starving children who survived being hunted down like animals while trekking for thousands of kilometres barefoot across the ex-Zaire.