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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 … Continue reading 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 … Continue reading 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 … Continue reading 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 … Continue reading 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 … Continue reading 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.

Refugees: human rights have no borders: conclusions and recommendations

The full report is also available in this digital library.

Refugees: human rights have no borders

This report outlines why people flee, why they need protection and the system that should, but does not always, provide that protection. It demonstrates that refugee crises cannot be resolved unless the underlying human rights issues are addressed.