Regional Approaches to the Protection of Asylum Seekers

Contents: Introduction: regional approaches to the protection of asylum seekers: an international perspective, Ademola Abass and Francesca Ippolito; The African Union legal framework for protecting asylum seekers, Gino J. Naldi and Cristiano d'Orsi; Sub-regional frameworks for the protection of asylum seekers: existing practices and opportunities through the optional protocol to the UN Convention Against Torture, E. Steinerte; Recasting the common European asylum system: progress and challenges, Francesca Ippolito; The external dimension of the EU asylum protection system: external aspects of EU asylum law and policy - 'new' ways to address 'old' woes, Samantha Velluti; The international protection of refugees and asylum seekers: the role of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, Colin Harvey; 'The right to have rights': the European Convention on Human Rights and the procedural rights of asylum seekers, Gina Clayton; The protection of asylum seekers with particular reference to African women: the contribution to the contemporary jurisprudence, R. Wallace; Cartagena Declaration and Brasilia Declaration, for a and programmes for refugees in Latin America, Liliana Lyra Jubilut; The asylum seekers protection before the IACommHR and the IACourtHR: protection of asylum seekers under the inter-American human rights system, David James Cantor and Stefania Barichello; ASEAN and the conceptualization of refugee protection in Southeastern Asian states, Susan Kneebone;The 1989 Comprehensive Plan of Action (CPA) and refugee policy in Southeast Asia: 20 years forward what has changed?, Sara E. Davies; The protection of asylum seekers in East Asian state parties to the 1951 Convention relating to the status of refugees and its 1967 Protocol, Kelley Loper; Conclusions: the future of legal protection of asylum seekers, Ademola Abass and Francesca Ippolito; Index.