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SUMMARY:The principle of non-refoulement and the United Nations Human Righ
 ts Treaties
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DESCRIPTION:About this talk\nThe principle of non-refoulement is a corners
 tone of international human rights protection\, prohibiting the transfer o
 f individuals to places where they face a real risk of torture\, persecuti
 on\, or other serious human rights violations. Yet the principle is curren
 tly under significant political pressure\, particularly in Europe\, where 
 recent initiatives\, including the Chişinǎu Declaration issued by Counci
 l of Europe member states\, reflect growing pressure on the European Court
  of Human Rights to reconsider the scope of states’ obligations. At the 
 same time\, the eight United Nations human rights treaty bodies receive th
 e largest number of human rights complaints about non-refoulement\, genera
 ting an extensive body of jurisprudence. \nAgainst this backdrop\, this se
 minar examines how the principle has been interpreted and applied by the U
 nited Nations human rights treaty bodies under the UN human rights treatie
 s\, highlighting the contributions of UN human rights treaties to the prot
 ection of the principle of non-refoulement.\n\nAbout the speaker\nBaşak 
 Çalı is Professor of International Law at the University of Oxford\, and
  Head of Research at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. She is the le
 ad editor of Migration and the European Convention on Human Rights (OUP\, 
 2021) and has just completed the three-year German Science Council-funded 
 research project Leading Cases in UN Human Rights Law which examines the c
 ontributions of the decisions of the eight UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies t
 o international human rights law jurisprudence.
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LOCATION:Queen Elizabeth House - Seminar Room 1\, Seminar Room 1 Queen Eli
 zabeth House 4 Mansfield Road Oxford Oxfordshire OX1 3TB United Kingdom
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