Reframing Non-Refoulement as an Individual Right under International Law?

Blog post written by Jenny Poon, a Research Affiliate of the Refugee Law Initiative, a Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of Law of the University of Western Ontario, Canada, a qualified Barrister & Solicitor in the Province of Ontario, as well as a Visiting Study Fellow at the University of Oxford, Refugee Studies Centre for Trinity Term 2017. The author may be reached at jpoonlaw@gmail.com. (more…)

Designating ‘Vulnerability’: The asylum claims of women and sexual minorities

Blog post written by Dr Moira Dustin, Research Fellow, School of Law, Politics and Sociology, University of Sussex. This contribution has been produced within the context of the project ‘Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Claims of Asylum: A European human rights challenge –SOGICA’ (www.sogica.org). This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 677693). This post is published as a contribution to Refugee Week 2017.

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