The Organization of American States and Legal Protection to Political Refugees in Central America

1989 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-218
Author(s):  
Keith W. Yundt
Keyword(s):  
Central America ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Organization Of American States ◽  
American States ◽  
Human Rights Regime ◽  
Political Refugees ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
Asylum Seekers And Refugees

Since 1978, massive influxes of asylum seekers have placed great strain upon recipient states in Central America. At the global level, protection and assistance to refugees is entrusted to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). At the regional level, one would expect involvement by the Organization of American States with Central America refugees; either to supplement UNHCR activities or to enforce independent inter-American standards. This article reviews inter-American standards and agencies of concern for asylum seekers and refugees. Special attention is given to the inter-American human rights regime as the mechanism best suited to supplement or complement UNHCR activities in Central America.

scholarly journals ROHINGA STATELESS PERSONS: ROLE OF UNHCR IN REFUGEE PROTECTION AND LACK OF ADEQUATE LEGAL PROTECTION IN INDONESIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 287
Author(s):  
Sutiarnoto Sutiarnoto ◽  
Jelly Leviza ◽  
Saiful Azam
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
International Organization ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Positive Law ◽  
Refugee Protection ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
Asylum Seekers And Refugees

<table width="583" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="371"><p><em>This article aimed to study about h</em><em>ow</em><em> </em><em>role of UNHCR in refugee protection</em><em> and </em><em> the legal protection for Rohingya refugees in Medan municipality</em><em>. </em><em>According to data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (hereinafter abbreviated to UNHCR) </em><em>since</em><em> January 2012, there were 3275 asylum seekers and 1052 refugees</em><em>. </em><em>Most refugees come to Indonesia with the hope of being permanently resettled elsewhere, often in America or Australia, but increasingly stringent immigration policies, massive underfunding and a lack of resources to sustain the influx of newcomers have left them stuck here.</em><em> </em><em>This research uses a sosio-legal research with statute approach, conceptual approach, and case approach. </em><em>There are several provisions regarding refugees, but none have specifically discussed the handling of refugees in Indonesia. The positive law of immigration in Indonesia does not contain any special provisions (lex specialis) for asylum seekers and refugees. Because Indonesia has not ratified the 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocol, the Indonesian government does not have the authority to deal with refugee problems. The authority to handle refugees is given to international organizations such as UNHCR which is a UN organization, IOM, ICRC and various other organizations or NGOs engaged in the humanitarian sector. However, the handling of this international organization has not been implemented optimally due to obstacles</em><em></em></p></td></tr></tbody></table>

International Institutions and Individualized Decision-Making: An Example of UNHCR's Refugee Status Determination

2008 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1779-1804 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maja Smrkolj
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Refugee Status ◽  
Security Forces ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
Sudanese Refugees ◽  
Individualized Decision ◽  
Asylum Seekers And Refugees

In autumn 2005 a group of Sudanese asylum seekers and refugees discontented with the unbearable conditions in the United Nations High Commissioner for Refuges (UNHCR) office in Cairo started a sit-in protest near the office. The protesters were, besides venting their anger at the suspension of Refugee Status Determination procedures for Sudanese refugees due to the ceasefire between the Sudanese government and Sudan's People Liberation Army, also making their frustrations heard regarding UNHCR's lengthy procedures, its failure to provide them with proper assistance, the high numbers of rejected applications, improper interviews and their general treatment by UNHCR's personnel as well as their difficult social and health conditions which had been aggravated by the lack of proper assistance. They were demanding that this situation be remedied and calling for transparent and fair procedures. Shortly thereafter they were joined by many more protesters so that in the following three months a group of between 1,800 and 2,500 people stayed around UNHCR's premises. However, meetings and negotiations with UNCHR eventually failed. The crisis ended in a tragedy. On December 30, 2005 the Egyptian security forces proceeded with the forcible removal of the protesters from the venue in an action in which 28 refugees were killed, more than half of which were children and women, with several protesters missing after the events. The Cairo incident illustrates what the cited report on the events has rightly called “a tragedy of failures and false expectations” regarding international humanitarian and human rights institutions.

Cooperation in the Central American Region: The Organization of Central American States

1957 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman J. Padelford
Keyword(s):  
Central America ◽  
Central American ◽  
Organization Of American States ◽  
Political Unity ◽  
American States ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Regional Grouping ◽  
American Region

For more than a century intellectuals and statesmen in Central America have kept alive a Bolivarian dream of fashioning a political unity in the isthmian region of the Americas. The formation of the Organization of Central American States in 1951 marked a signal accomplishment along a pathway strewn with many obstacles and previous frustrations. The establishment of this organization added a third regional grouping to the two already present in the Americas— the Organization of American States and the Caribbean Commission. It remains to be seen to what extent the three will be able to work together when questions affecting interests of the hemisphere as a whole arise.

scholarly journals Collective Aspirations

2021 ◽  
pp. 195-208
Author(s):  
Gail Theisen-Womersley
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Mass Flow ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
United Nations High Commissioner ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Asylum Seekers And Refugees

AbstractEurope has faced an unprecedented influx of asylum seekers– with over one and a half million sea arrivals reported since 2015 by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). As the “reception crisis” continues unabated, Greece remains one of the first ports of sanctuary. According to recent statistics provided for March 2018 by the UNHCR, over 50,000 asylum seekers and refugees currently remain in Greece following this mass flow.

scholarly journals ONE FOR THE ASYLUM SEEKER Bula v Minister of Home Affairs (589/11) [2011] ZASCA 209

Obiter ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Darren Subramanien
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
The United States ◽  
African Continent ◽  
High Court ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The World ◽  
Court Of Appeal

South Africa has a large refugee population. In its 2010 report the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees stated that South Africa received more than 222,000 new asylum requests. This made South Africa the number-one asylum destination in the world, ahead of the United States, Sweden, France, and Germany. People across the African continent go to South Africa to escapeviolence and poverty because it is a beacon of stability and economic growth on the continent. They arrive by bus and by foot after journeys that last for weeks from countries such as Ethiopia, Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, Sudan, Somalia and Tanzania. Whenthey get close to the border, those without legal papers walk through the bush and swim across rivers to avoid being sent back. In a strongly-worded judgment, the Supreme Court of Appeal has affirmed the principles governing legal protection for asylum seekers in South Africa (SA) and censured a High Court acting judge for flouting the “fundamental rules of litigation”. Navsa JA went on to set out the approach that ought to have been followed. He said the laws governing asylum specifically required that a person who wanted to apply for asylum status should be allowed to apply, even if he had been arrested prior. 

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