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Asylum as a Human Right

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Asylum and International Law

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The Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights have introduced the notion of the individual’s fundamental human rights in the international legal system and have thereby made subsequent achievements in this respect possible.

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  1. H. Kelsen, The Law of the United Nations, 29 (1950).

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  2. H. Lauterpacht, International Law and Human Rights, 150 (1950).

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  3. See H. Golsong, “Implementation of International Protection of Human Rights,” 110 Recueil des Cours 7, 15–16 (1963).

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  4. For a similar view, see P. Weis, “Territorial Asylum,” 6 Indian Journal of International Law 173, 179 (1966).

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  5. For the significance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, see H. Lauterpacht, “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” 25 The British Yearbook of International Law 354 (1948). The Supreme Court of Eire pointed out in The State (Duggan) v. Tapley (1951), Annual Digest,1951, No. 109, 336–337, 338, 342, 343, that the Declaration did not purport to be a statement of existing international law.

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  6. U.N. General Assembly Resolution 2200 (XXI), 16 December 1966, Annex.

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  7. Council of Europe, European Convention on Human Rights, Collected Texts,(2nd ed., 1963). See also J. E. S. Fawcett, The Application of the European Convention on Human Rights,59 (1969).

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  8. Interesting proposals have been made for the enforcement of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by, for example, L. Kutner, “World Habeas Corpus: A Legal Absolute for Survival,” 39 University of Detroit Law Journal 279, 293 (1962); W. J. Brennan, “International Due Process and the Law,” 48 Virginia Law Review 1258 (1962).

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  1. S. Prakash Sinha
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© 1971 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands

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Sinha, S.P. (1971). Asylum as a Human Right. In: Asylum and International Law. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-8856-2_5

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