Book Review: Judicial interpretation of refugee status: in search of a principled methodology based on a critical comparative analysis, with special reference to contemporary British, French and German jurisprudence
| DOI | 10.1177/092405190001800119 |
| Date | 01 March 2000 |
| Published date | 01 March 2000 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
NQHR
1/2000
Human Rights Watch researchers travelled to Uganda in April and May 1998 to assess the
human rights dimensions of the
NRM's
'no-party' or 'movement' system
of
government
and to document human rights abuses associated with the
NRM's
long monopoly of
government. Abuses by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a rebel group operating in
northern Uganda, were documented in Human Rights Watch's 1997 report, Scars
of
Death. This report focuses on the 'movement' political system, analysing its legal
structures and actual operation against international human rights standards.
Human rights and ethnic conflicts /ed. by Peter R. Baehr, Floribert Baudet and Hans
Werdmolder. - Utrecht: Studie- en Informatiecentrum Mensenrechten, 1999. - 103 p. -
(SIM special; no. 24)
ISBN: 90-71383-06-7
This SIM Special contains the proceedings
of
the 'Conference on human rights and ethnic
conflicts', organised by the School
of
Human Rights Research, held at Utrecht University,
the Netherlands, on 29 May 1998. Purpose
of
the conference was to contribute to the
knowledge of the causes
of
ethnic conflict in general, and to a better understanding of the
possibilities to prevent them. In this volume specialists discuss the following subjects
concerning human rights and ethnic conflicts: multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary
perspectives; intergovernmental organisations and ethnic conflicts; collective and human
rights in the former Yugoslavia; and Dutch foreign policy towards ethnic conflict.
Judicial interpretation
of
refugee status: in search
of
aprincipled methodology based on
a critical comparative analysis, with special reference to contemporary British. French and
Germanjurisprudence /Nicolas Sitaropoulos. - Athens: Ant. N. Sakkoulas, 1999. - 521 p.
(Human rights ; no. 2)
ISBN: 960-232-928-9
The subject matter
of
this study is the substantive law of refugee status as applied and,
consequently, concurrently interpreted by the competent domestic courts and tribunals
of
three specific European countries: the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. The
substantive law
of
refugee status, determining the refugee inclusion clauses and the
individual eligibility for refugee status, is a crucial and complicated aspect
of
asylum that
a future EU policy, and especially domestic judicial practice, will face. The importance
of the role that a legally principled interpretation
of
refugee status by domestic fora may
play in the development
of
refugee protection, regionally and internationally, is put
forward in this work.
Law and cultural diversity /ed. by Yvonne Donders
...
ret al.]. -Utrecht: Studie- en
Informatiecentrum Mensenrechten, 1999. - vii, 182 p. - (SIM
special;
no. 25)
ISBN: 90-71383-07-5
This SIM Special is based on the proceedings of a workshop, organised by the Working
Group 'Law and cultural diversity' in cooperation with the School
of
Human Rights
Research, held in Utrecht, the Netherlands, on 25 September 1998. The subjects
of
the
articles include: the right to cultural identity in international human rights law, the right
to self-determination, and the protection of minorities in international law.
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