Traduction de «droit national des réfugiés » (Français → Anglais) :

EU law - national law [ Community law - national law | European Union law - national law | national law - Community law | national law - European Union law ]

national law [ domestic law | internal law | legislation of the Member States | national legal system | national legislation | national regulations ]

international law - national law [ national law - international law ]

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Transnational Migration and Nation: Burmese Refugees in Vancouver

national law | internal law | domestic law

26. Condemns the xenophobic words and attitudes of the leaders of some Member States, and the use that far-right forces are making of the current crisis to spread their violent message; also condemns the fact that some Member State leaders keep on maintaining confusing and divisive attitudes towards refugees, asylum seekers and ‘economic’ migrants; condemns in particular all the measures being adopted by the current Hungarian Government that contravene international law on asylum, including changes to national asylum legislation, the building of a new fence and the violent disembarkation of a trainful of refugees, as well as the recent ...[+++] statements by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán;

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the key authority on international refugee determination, pointed out in its comments on the legislative review of the Immigration Act earlier this year that exclusion is the most extreme sanction in international refugee law.

Witnesses: From the Department of Citizenship and Immigration: Gerry Van Kessel, Director General, Refugees Branch; Jeff LeBane, Director General, International Region; Rick Herringer, Director, Resettlement, Refugees Branch; Susan Burrows, Acting Director, Asylum, Refugees Branch; France Duquette, Senior Advisor, Asylum, Refugees Branch and Kent Francis, Executive Assistant to the Director General, International Region.

L. whereas Palestinian refugees remain a particularly vulnerable group in the crisis in Syria; whereas almost all of the 540 000 Palestinian refugees in Syria are in need of emergency assistance, while more than half of them have been displaced again within the country; whereas Palestinian refugees, who have no Syrian citizenship, do not have the same rights as Syrian refugees and are, in the vast majority of cases, unable to leave the country; whereas the situation of the 18 000 Palestinian refugees trapped in extremely difficult conditions in the Yarmouk refugee camp, which has been under siege since July 2013, is particularly alarming; whereas UNRWA and other international ...[+++] aid organisations have been denied access to deliver essential supplies to civilians in Yarmouk for months; whereas this collective punishment of the population is having a devastating effect, with mass suffering; whereas, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, more than 50 people have died in the camp since September 2013 from hunger or lack of medical care; whereas the limited number of food parcels that were allowed into the camp by the Syrian authorities, in the run-up to the Geneva II Conference, were far from enough to meet people’s needs; whereas, in her statement of 17 January 2014, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said, in this context, that ‘impeding humanitarian assistance to civilians in desperate need may amount to a war crime’;