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Human Rights and Refugees

Human Rights and Refugees Alfred de Zayas There is a causal link between the violation of human rights and the phenomenon of refugee movements. Political refugees leave their countries because of breaches of their civil and political rights; economic migrants, sometimes also referred to as refugees, leave on account of conditions that frequently entail violations of economic, social or cultural rights. Other displaced persons are uprooted because of natural disasters or wars, which create situations in which human rights cannot be fully exercised. There is also a vast grey area in between. The Executive Committee of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees expressed in its 1988 Conclusion No. 52 (XXXIX) on "International Solidarity and Refugee Protection" a deep concern over "the serious violations of human rights which accompany refugee problems and the dislocation and distress they cause for the millions of individuals involved." (emphasis added) From another perspective, there are inherent human rights links that accompany the refugee anywhere he goes, since a host country must respect the human rights of all persons within its territory, including aliens and refugees. Indeed, the protection of the human rights of refugees belongs to the emerging universal human rights culture. Today there are some http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nordic Journal of International Law Brill

Human Rights and Refugees

De Zayas, Alfred
Nordic Journal of International Law , Volume 61 (1-4): 253 – Apr 16, 2014
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Brill
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Copyright 1992 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0902-7351
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1571-8107
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10.1163/15718107-90000033
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Alfred de Zayas There is a causal link between the violation of human rights and the phenomenon of refugee movements. Political refugees leave their countries because of breaches of their civil and political rights; economic migrants, sometimes also referred to as refugees, leave on account of conditions that frequently entail violations of economic, social or cultural rights. Other displaced persons are uprooted because of natural disasters or wars, which create situations in which human rights cannot be fully exercised. There is also a vast grey area in between. The Executive Committee of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees expressed in its 1988 Conclusion No. 52 (XXXIX) on "International Solidarity and Refugee Protection" a deep concern over "the serious violations of human rights which accompany refugee problems and the dislocation and distress they cause for the millions of individuals involved." (emphasis added) From another perspective, there are inherent human rights links that accompany the refugee anywhere he goes, since a host country must respect the human rights of all persons within its territory, including aliens and refugees. Indeed, the protection of the human rights of refugees belongs to the emerging universal human rights culture. Today there are some

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