Main Debates
- Is refugee protection in Africa safe from being exploited by fugitives from justice?
- Role of the international community during conflicts that disturb public order and generate mass displacement
Main Points
- Exclusion during mass influx situation
- Sources of excludable crimes/acts
- Procedural safeguards
Soft Law
UNHCR Documents
Readings
Core
- G. Gilbert, ‘Current Issues in the Application of the Exclusion Clauses’, in E. Feller, V. Türk, and F. Nicholson (eds), Refugee Protection in International Law: UNHCR’s Global Consultations on International Protection, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 425–478.
- Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, 'Refugees, Rebels and the Quest for Justice', (Washington, D.C., 2002).
- A. H. Okba, ‘The Application of Exclusion Clause to Refugees under International and Municipal Law in Uganda’, LLM dissertation submitted to the School of Graduate Studies, (Kampala: Makerere University, Uganda), 2008.
- S. Singer, ‘Exclusion from Refugee Status and Terrorist-related Offences: the case of AH (Algeria)’, Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law, vol. 26, no. 4, (2012), pp. 337-348.
Extended
- T. Schreier, ‘Exclusion from Refugee Status’, in F. Khan and T. Schreier (eds), Refugee Law in South Africa, (Cape Town: Juta, 2014).
- J. Van Wijk, ‘When international criminal justice collides with principles of international protection: assessing the consequences of ICC witnesses seeking asylum, defendants being acquitted, and convicted being released’, Leiden Journal of International Law, vol. 26, no. 1, (2013), pp. 173-191.
- C. Ahlborn, ‘The normative erosion of international refugee protection through UN Security Council practice’, Leiden Journal of International Law, vol. 24, no. 4, (2011), pp. 1009-1027.
- Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, ‘Exclusion from Protection’, International Journal of Refugee Law, Special Supplementary Issues on Exclusion, (2000), pp. i–ii.
- L. Yu, ‘Separating Ex-combatants and Refugees in Zongo, DRC: Peacekeepers and UNHCR’s Ladder of Options’, New Issues in Refugee Research, Working Paper No. 60 (August 2002).