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Tag: 1951 Refugee Convention

Making States Accountable for Deliberate Forced Displacement — Research Paper No. 17

Posted on June 25, 2019November 5, 2020 by WRMC in Publications, Research Paper

While the international refugee regime is anchored in the 1951 Refugee Convention and the work of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the Convention is silent on the question of state culpability, and the UNHCR’s Statute established its entirely non-political character.

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