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Who Is A Refugee?: Twenty-Five Years Of Domestic Implementation And Judicial Interpretation Of The 1969 Oaw And 1951 Un Refugee Conventions In Post-Apartheid South Africa, Tiyanjana Maluwa, Anton Katz
Who Is A Refugee?: Twenty-Five Years Of Domestic Implementation And Judicial Interpretation Of The 1969 Oaw And 1951 Un Refugee Conventions In Post-Apartheid South Africa, Tiyanjana Maluwa, Anton Katz
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
As a party to the UN Refugee Convention and the OAU Refugee Convention, South Africa is obligated to apply international refugee law when addressing the protection needs of asylum seekers in the country. The Refugees Act, 1998 encapsulates the cardinal principles of the two conventions. This essay discusses how government officials and judges have interpreted and applied these principles in asylum application cases. These cases demonstrate that officials are either not always fully conversant with the legal obligations, incumbent upon the government, arising from both international law and domestic law or purposefully ignore them. For the most part, officials tend …
A Proposal To Improve The Treatment Of Women In Asylum Law: Adding A "Gender" Category To The International Definition Of "Refugee", Todd Stewart Schenk
A Proposal To Improve The Treatment Of Women In Asylum Law: Adding A "Gender" Category To The International Definition Of "Refugee", Todd Stewart Schenk
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
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Human Rights, U.S. Foreign Policy, And Haitian Refugees, John Scanlan, Gilburt Loescher
Human Rights, U.S. Foreign Policy, And Haitian Refugees, John Scanlan, Gilburt Loescher
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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Mass Asylum And Human Rights In American Foreign Policy, John Scanlan, G. D. Loescher
Mass Asylum And Human Rights In American Foreign Policy, John Scanlan, G. D. Loescher
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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Interstate Rendition: Rights And Remedies Of The Accused Seeking Asylum In Massachusetts, Gene R. Shreve
Interstate Rendition: Rights And Remedies Of The Accused Seeking Asylum In Massachusetts, Gene R. Shreve
Articles by Maurer Faculty
The subject of Interstate Rendition is one of conspicuous unfamiliarity to the average Massachusetts lawyer. Yet, as this article indicates, the rendition hearing presents a valuable opportunity to alert defense counsel to assist the accused at a critical stage of the criminal proceeding. The author, a graduate of Harvard Law School is presently law clerk to United States District Judge Sara/h T. Hughes of the Northern District of Texas. He formerly served as Massachusetts Assistant Attorney General where he presided at numerous rendition hearings conducted by the Department of the Attorney General for the Governor.