Asylum vs. Temporary Protection: The paradox of legal protection in Latin America
Venezuela’s protracted collapse has driven millions to seek protection across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), making it one of the largest displacement situations in recent years. By May-2025, over...
Individualised Risk Assessments and the Principle of Non-Refoulement: Why States Cannot Rush to Return Refugees and Asylum Seekers Back to Syria
The principle of non-refoulement – a principle of international law in the Refugee Convention, the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights, and several other treaties – prohibits States from...
The Legal Protections of Displaced Rohingya in Malaysia
The alleged genocide of the Muslim minority Rohingya in Buddhist majority Myanmar has precipitated the largest refugee crisis in Asia today with approximately 1 million Rohingyas having been displaced since...
Undermining the Right to Seek Asylum: Analysing the Proposed US Border Measures’ Impact on the Fundamental Human Rights of Migrants
A 370-page bill that emerged earlier this year out of backroom negotiations between the US Senate and the White House would entrench into law some of the most restrictive asylum...
