The Development of International Refugee Protection through the Practice of the UN Security Council

• Main Author: Christiane Ahlborn (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Graduate Institute Publications 2010
• Subjects: migration and refugees; United Nations International Independent Investigation Commission (UNIIIC); conflict security and peacebuilding; international refugee protection
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This paper examines the ambivalent influence of the UN Security Council's practice on the development of international refugee protection since the early 1990s. While the international refugee protection regime did not originally foresee a role for the Security Council, the increasingly complex...