Author profile: Lucy Mayblin

Historically European, Morally Universal? The 1951 Geneva Convention on the Status of Refugees

Lucy Mayblin • Mar 28 2010 • Essays

The 1951 Geneva Convention on the Status of Refugees is “one of the most widely accepted international norms, and remains the sole legally binding international instrument that provides specific protection to refugees”. Yet the Convention is neither fit for purpose nor universally accepted.

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