Research Online (University of Wollongong) · 2015 · 33 citations · 0 references
LawInternational LawInternational RelationsInternational Humanitarian LawInternational OrganizationsRefugee Law1951 Refugee ConventionInternally Displaced PersonsInternational Refugee LawRefugee PolicyRefugee ProtectionRefugee RightsConvention Definition Of RefugeeInternally Displaced Persons GovernanceInternational Refugee RegimeProtection Against PersecutionRefugee Definition Under The 1951 Convention
Flight is one of the most basic responses to persecution and violence. The 1951 Refugee Convention presumes that refugees are outside of their own country, that they have fled form individualized state-based persecution, and that they can no longer count on the protection of their own state. To respond to this, the Convention and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) exist to provide these refugees with international protection. Thus protection is anchored in international law.