III.4.1 Exclusion clause

Main Debates

  • Is refugee protection in Africa safe from being exploited by fugitives from justice?
  • Role of the international community during conflicts that disturb public order and generate mass displacement

Main Points

  • Exclusion during mass influx situation
  • Sources of excludable crimes/acts
  • Procedural safeguards

Soft Law

UNHCR Documents

  1. UNHCR, ‘UNHCR Guidelines on the Application in Mass Influx Situations of the Exclusion Clauses of Article 1F of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees’, 7 February 2006.

Readings

Core

  1. G. Gilbert, ‘Current Issues in the Application of the Exclusion Clauses’, in E. Feller, V. Türk, and F. Nicholson (eds), Refugee Protection in International Law: UNHCR’s Global Consultations on International Protection, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 425–478.
  2. Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, 'Refugees, Rebels and the Quest for Justice', (Washington, D.C., 2002).
  3. A. H. Okba, ‘The Application of Exclusion Clause to Refugees under International and Municipal Law in Uganda’, LLM dissertation submitted to the School of Graduate Studies, (Kampala: Makerere University, Uganda), 2008.
  4. S. Singer, ‘Exclusion from Refugee Status and Terrorist-related Offences: the case of AH (Algeria)’, Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law, vol. 26, no. 4, (2012), pp. 337-348.

Extended

  1. T. Schreier, ‘Exclusion from Refugee Status’, in F. Khan and T. Schreier (eds), Refugee Law in South Africa, (Cape Town: Juta, 2014).
  2. J. Van Wijk, ‘When international criminal justice collides with principles of international protection: assessing the consequences of ICC witnesses seeking asylum, defendants being acquitted, and convicted being released’, Leiden Journal of International Law, vol. 26, no. 1, (2013), pp. 173-191.
  3. C. Ahlborn, ‘The normative erosion of international refugee protection through UN Security Council practice’, Leiden Journal of International Law, vol. 24, no. 4, (2011), pp. 1009-1027.
  4. Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, ‘Exclusion from Protection’, International Journal of Refugee Law, Special Supplementary Issues on Exclusion, (2000), pp. i–ii.
  5. L. Yu, ‘Separating Ex-combatants and Refugees in Zongo, DRC: Peacekeepers and UNHCR’s Ladder of Options’, New Issues in Refugee Research, Working Paper No. 60 (August 2002).