Origin Codified in 1951, in Article 33 of the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees; developed in response to the international failure to protect refugees fleeing Nazi persecution.
Non-refoulement is a doctrine of international law prohibiting a state from expelling or returning a person, most often a refugee or asylum seeker, to a territory where their life or freedom would be threatened on account of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion. It is anchored in Article 33 of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, and grew out of the international community's recognition of its own failure to protect refugees fleeing Nazi persecution before and during the Second World War; though rooted in that treaty, non-refoulement is widely regarded as binding customary international law, applying even to states that have not ratified the Convention. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Origin PeriodCodified in 1951, in Article 33 of the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees; developed in response to the international failure to protect refugees fleeing Nazi persecution. 1 Core PrincipleNo state shall expel or return a refugee in any manner whatsoever to the frontiers of territories where their life or freedom would be threatened on account of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion. 1 Origin Period
Origin Period (category)20th Century (1900-1999) 1 Classification
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Codified as Article 33 of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, the principal source of the non-refoulement obligation.
Both are protective principles of international law constraining a state's treatment of individuals within or entering its territory.
Both are international-law/human-rights enforcement principles governing state conduct toward individuals across borders.
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Non-refoulement () is a fundamental principle of international law anchored in the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees that forbids a country from deporting ("refoulement") any person to any country in which their "life or freedom would be threatened" on account of "race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion".
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Non-refoulement () is a fundamental principle of international law anchored in the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees that forbids a country from deporting ("refoulement") any person to any country in which their "life or freedom would be threatened" on account of "race, religion, nationality, membershi
In Group: Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Doctrines, Introduction, sentence 1
Non-refoulement () is a fundamental principle of international law anchored in the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees that forbids a country from deporting ("refoulement") any person to any country in which their "life or freedom would be threatened" on account of "race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion".
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