Protection of Refugees By Their Country of Origin

Forty years after the Second World War, the international refugee crisis shows few signs of abating. Millions of persons continue to flee their states of nationality in search of safe havens, and the underlying conflicts in their home states that caused their flight often lack any hope of resolution. States of asylum are now realizing that their refugees may become long-term visitors. The refugees, for their part, fear their states of nationality and seek protection from their new home. International refugee law has proved slow to deal with the conflicts governments face as exiled citizens, still nominally protected by their home state, seek to adjust to their state of asylum. Refugee law must clarify the role that the state of nationality should play once a refugee has fled it

Sweden and Humanitarian Law

Professor Jacob W.F. Sundberg\u27s article on Humanitarian Laws of Armed Conflict in Sweden: Ogling the Socialist Camp \u27 has neither head nor tail. When coming to the author\u27s conclusions the reader is likely to be dumbfounded: he may not have realized that this was what the article was all about. Up to that point he has been introduced to a variety of matters, presented in a hodge-podge manner. The article is failing on its own merits. However, the article is full of innuendo, half-truths and untruths. If published at home, no one knowing the author and his ideas would have paid much attention. But as the article is published in a foreign country, where the readership may be unfamiliar with the persons and the issues involved, there may be a need to put certain matters straight

Refugees and Refugee Law in a World in Transition

In country after country a political polarization is growing, a movement away from the center-to the right and to the left. In states with a less than stable political structure, coups d\u27etat and strongmen are commonplace. International law is broken as a matter of convenience. The media are filled with news of interventions, aggressions, even warfare. Human rights are frequently trodden under foot. And we are faced with a rising wave of xenophobia