Problems of protection : the UNHCR, refugees, and human rights / / edited by Niklaus Steiner, Mark Gibney, and Gil Loescher

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (716 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.87
• Soggetto topico: Refugees - Government policy
• Altri autori: GibneyMark LoescherGil SteinerNiklaus
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; 1. Introduction: Refugee Protection and UNHCR; 1. UNHCR at Fifty: Refugee Protection and World Politics; The Cold War Period; UNHCR and Its Focus on Repatriation; UNHCR and the Erosion of Refugee Protection; The Need to Raise the Protection Profile of UNHCR; The Need to Reverse the Erosion of Refugee Protection; 2. What Is Refugee Protection? A Question Revisited; What Is Refugee Protection? A Question Posed at the Outset of a Decade of Refugees ; UNHCR and Protection in the 90s: The Institutional Dimension of ProtectionMandate; Regional Strategies; Deepening the Concept of Protection; Institutional Issues; A Look Backward and Forward in 2002; Conclusion; 2. The Ethics of Refugee Protection; 3. The Legal and Ethical Obligations of UNHCR: The Case of Temporary Protection in Western Europe; The Legal and Ethical Framework; Principles; Pragmatic Concerns; The Human Rights Challenge in Europe; Temporary Protection; Background; UNHCR's Analysis on TP and the 1951 Convention; Deficient Protection ; TP and UNHCR's Role in Developing International Refugee LawThe "Trump" of Political Considerations- Did UNHCR's TP Initiative Save Lives?; Gains in the South?; 4. Defining Persecution and Protection: The Cultural Relativism Debate and the Rights of Refugees; Human Rights and the Cultural Relativism Debate; Non-Western Values and "Universal" Human Rights; Prioritizing and Categorizing Human Rights; Cultural Relativism and Refugee Rights; "Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment"; Refugee Producers and Refugee Acceptors; Conclusion; 3. Legal and Institutional Protection of Refugees ; 5. Refugee Protection in Troubled Times: Reflections on Institutional and Legal Developments at the CrossroadsShifting Priorities, Attitudes and Institutional Change; Challenges to the System of International Refugee Protection; Refugee Protection and the Link to Human Rights; International Legal Obligations; UN Human Rights Mechanisms and the Protection of Refugees; The Sub-Commission on Human Rights; The Work of the Treaty Bodies; Developments in International Criminal Law; Reparation and Compensation; Conclusion ; 6. A Rare Opening in the Wall: The Growing Recognition of Gender-Based PersecutionGender-Based Persecution and International Protection; The Emergence of Refugee Women's Issues; Evolution of Thinking in Human Rights Law; Expanding the Scope of International Protection: The Adoption of the 1967 Protocol; The Failure of the 1977 Conference on Territorial Asylum to Codify an Individual's Right to Asylum; Implications for Gender-Based Protection from Persecution; 7. The Role of Non-Governmental Organizations in the International Refugee Regime; A Bit of History; The Blossoming of Civil Society ; Proliferation of NGOs
• Sommario/riassunto: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
• Titolo autorizzato: Problems of protection
• ISBN: 1-135-39555-1; 0-415-94574-7; 0-203-95486-6; 1-135-39548-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790787803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II