Biography Dr Savitri Taylor is an Associate Professor in the Law School at La Trobe University in Australia. She is willing to discuss specific issues related to the contents of this page with individuals. Email: S.Taylor@latrobe.edu.au Twitter: @SavitriTaylor Table: Treaty parties at 1 April 2016 (NB reservations and declarations not noted) Country or territory Refugee…
Biography Marina Sharpe is a DPhil candidate and Trudeau Scholar at the University of Oxford. Her thesis is about refugee protection in Africa. She was called to the bar of England & Wales in 2010 and to the New York bar in 2006, and spent almost three years in private practice at Cravath, Swaine &…
The Cartagena Declaration on Refugees, Colloquium on the International Protection of Refugees in Central America, Mexico and Panama is a non-binding agreement which was adopted by the Colloquium on the International Protection of Refugees in Central America, Mexico and Panama, held at Cartagena, Colombia from 19-22 November 1984. The Cartagena Declaration bases its principles on…
The 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol are the most comprehensive and widely ratified international codification of refugee rights, provides a definition of “refugee” and spells out the legal status of refugees, including their rights and obligations. States that have acceded to the 1951 Convention are obliged to protect…