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Australia’s current refugee policies and obligations under international refugee law
The Migration and Maritime Powers Legislation Amendment (Resolving the Asylum Legacy Caseload) Act 2014 (Cth) (MMPLA) significantly changed how Australia treats asylum seekers, especially those... Read More
The EU-Turkey deal breakdown: how securitisation narratives are reproduced through externalisation
When Turkey opened its borders in February 2020, the responses from EU states clearly illustrated the fact that externalisation is a tool used to exacerbate... Read More
Syrian Torture Trial: German Court Upholds The Principle of Universal Jurisdiction
Background of the case On 24 February, 2021, a German court in Koblenz sentenced Eyad al Gharib, a low-ranking former officer of the Syrian secret... Read More
The EU’s Relocation of Unaccompanied Migrant Children to Safe Havens: A Good Practice?
The COVID-19 pandemic as a ‘ticking health bomb’ has proven to be a difficult time for everyone, but for the Unaccompanied or Separated Migrant Children... Read More
Refugees’ Right to Physical Security: What does it Practically Mean?
The Law When one reads the term “right to physical security”, a basic understanding of what it means usually flirts with the idea of safety.... Read More
A Review of “Refuge Lost: Asylum Law in an Interdependent World”
Refuge Lost: Asylum Law in an Interdependent World Daniel Ghezelbash, Cambridge University Press, 2018 The “refuge lost” in the book’s title is literally true in... Read More
South Africa and its current responses to combating human trafficking
Human trafficking is one of the most egregious human rights violations in the current era, bringing high earnings to traffickers through the acquisition and exploitation... Read More