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The World Refugee Regime in Crisis: A Failure to Fulfill the Burden-Sharing and Humanitarian Requirements of the 1951 Refugee Convention

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Susan Musarat-Akram
Susan Musarat-Akram*
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Boston University College of Law, Boston, MA
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 93 , 1999 , pp. 213 - 216
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1999

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References

7 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, 28 July 1951, 189 U.N.T.S. 150.

8 (Dublin) Convention Determining the State Responsible for Examining Applications for Asylum Lodged in one of the European Community Member States, June 15, 1990, EC 40, 30 I.L.M. 425 (1991).

9 Convention of the Member States of the European Communities on the Crossing of Their External Borders, Ad Hoc Group Immigration, Doc. SN 2528/91 (WGI 822), June 24, 1991.

10 Convention Applying the Schengen Agreement of 14 June 1985 between the Governments of the States of the Benelux Economic Union, the Federal Republic of Germany and the French Republic on the Gradual Abolition of Checks at Their Common Borders, June 19, 1990, 301.L.M. 84 (1991). See generally, Vigdis Vevstad, Refugee Protection, A European Challenge (Tano Aschehoug, 1998).

11 U.N.H.C.R., the State of the World’s Refugees, A Humanitarian Agenda, 30.

12 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, 28 July 1951, U.N.T.S. 150.

13 O.A.U. Convention, 10 Sept. 1969, 1001 U.N.T.S. 45.

14 Declaration of Cartagena, reprinted in Organization of American States, 1984-1985 Annual Report of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, at 180, OEA/Ser. L/V/II.66, Doc. 10, rev. 1 (1985).

15 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, G.A. Res. 71, U.N. Doc. A/810 (1948).

16 United Nations Charter, 26 June 1945, 1 IN.T.S. xvi, U.S.T.S. 993, 59 Stat 1031.

17 Chris Sale v. Haitian Centers Council, Inc., 509 U.S. 155, 113 S.Ct. 2549 (1993).

18 See IIRIRA, INA secs. 235(b)(1) [Expedited Removal]; 208 (a)(2)(B) [Filing Deadlines]; 208(a)(2)(A) [Safe 3d. Countries]; 236(a) [Detention]; and 292(a)(2)(A) and (e) [No Judicial Review].