In this clip, I introduce the international system that protects refugees - as defined and covered in the 1951 Refugee Convention as well as persons eligible for "complementary" protection under international human rights treaties.

0:00 Introduction
1:00 The Refugee Convention
1:48 The definition of the refugee
4:49 Complementary protection
5:33 The non-refoulement principle
6:51 The UNHCR
7:43 Other involved institutions

Reading (for "International Human Rights"):
• Alice Edwards, "International Refugee Law", chapter 27 in Daniel Moeckli et al., International Human Rights Law (Oxford University Press, 2017)

Reading (for "Introduction to Public International Law"):
• James C. Hathaway, "Refugees and Asylum," in Foundations of International Migration Law, edited by Brian Opeskin, Richard Perruchoud, and Jillyanne Redpath-Cross, 177-204 (Cambridge University Press, 2012)

Reading questions (for "Introduction to Public International Law"):
• What is the right of non-refoulement and why is it so central to international refugee law?
• Which group(s) notably remain outside the scope of the refugee definition as formulated in Art. 1(A)(2) of the Refugee Convention (and described by Hathaway in section 7.2)?

Recommended Podcast:
• "The Truth about Migrants", On Human Rights, 29 June 2019 [56:07]


This video series was created for a third-year undergraduate course in international human rights law at University College Roosevelt in the Netherlands.

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