Rwanda: protecting their rights: Rwandese refugees in the Great Lakes region
This report focuses on Amnesty International’s human rights concerns regarding Rwandese refugees. It illustrates these concerns through a critical examination of past and ongoing voluntary repatriation operations, including the repatriation of demobilized Rwandese members of armed political groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and their families. The report further documents Amnesty International’s concerns … Seguir leyendo Rwanda: protecting their rights: Rwandese refugees in the Great Lakes region →
Protection gaps: Amnesty International’s concerns to UNHCR’S Standing Committee 8 – 11 March 2005
Within this document, AI raises concerns in regard to the current mass deportation of illegal immigrants from Malaysia, which is expected to affect the protection of large numbers of refugees from Indonesia, Myanmar and other countries. In addition, concerns are raised about the sustainability of return to Burundi and to Rwanda, including concerns about conditions … Seguir leyendo Protection gaps: Amnesty International’s concerns to UNHCR’S Standing Committee 8 – 11 March 2005 →
Amnesty International’s concerns at the 55th session of the Executive Committee of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
This document includes concerns regarding effective protection, the right to asylum, repatriation, mass influx, and the working methods of the Executive Committee. It also includes relevant case studies.
Amnesty International’s observations to UNHCR’s consultations on Convention Plus
Amnesty International believes that Convention Plus could provide a process for developing concrete responsibility-sharing arrangements, that to be effective must include a strong protection component. It should incorporate more explicitly the human rights obligations of states, and the human rights context in which the 1951 Refugee Convention rests. This was reflected in the Global Consultations … Seguir leyendo Amnesty International’s observations to UNHCR’s consultations on Convention Plus →
UK/EU/UNHCR: unlawful and unworkable: extra-territorial processing of asylum claims
This document addresses the UK and UNHCR proposals for reforming the asylum system in the EU. It focuses on a number of the key legal deficiencies that Amnesty International has identified in each. These include whether it is lawful to transfer persons to another country for extra-territorial processing, and the risk of human rights abuses … Seguir leyendo UK/EU/UNHCR: unlawful and unworkable: extra-territorial processing of asylum claims →
UNHCR’s Forum and Executive Committee: basic human rights principles applicable to responsibility- and burden-sharing arrangements
This document outlines Amnesty International’s position on burden and responsability sharing agreements.
Socialist Republic of Viet Nam/Kingdom of Cambodia: no sanctuary: the plight of Montagnard minority
In February 2001, thousands of people from indigenous minorities, collectively known as Montagnards, held protests in the Vietnamese Central Highlands focusing on a number of grievances, including anger at government confiscation of their ancestral forest homelands, an influx of lowland Vietnamese settlers taking their agricultural land, lack of freedom of worship for the many who … Seguir leyendo Socialist Republic of Viet Nam/Kingdom of Cambodia: no sanctuary: the plight of Montagnard minority →
54th UN Commission on Human Rights (1998): statements and press releases issued by Amnesty International
Includes an address outlining refoulement concerns, in view of the decline in the willingness of states to protect refugees and asylum-seekers. The document begins with a section on Israel and the occupied territories.
Bosnia-Herzegovina: ‘who’s living in my house?’: obstacles to the safe return of refugees and internally displaced people
This document states that more than one year into the implementation of the peace agreement, key objectives in the field of human rights remain unfulfilled. Continuing human rights violations in Bosnia-Herzegovina deny people the right to return to their homes and have caused more people to flee. According to UNHCR, some 60 per cent of … Seguir leyendo Bosnia-Herzegovina: ‘who’s living in my house?’: obstacles to the safe return of refugees and internally displaced people →
Panama/Colombia: refugees: the right to escape from death
Since November 1996 hundreds of Colombian refugees have been forcibly deported to Colombia by Panamanian authorities in clear breach of its international human rights obligations.
