REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON REFUGEE PROTECTION

摘要: The regional dimension to refugee problems and to refugee protection is often lost in the global approach and in too great a focus on what seem to be the wonders of the universal. International lawyers, however, need to be tuned in to regional developments, to the specific refinements that come through in the practice of states, to the jurisprudence and doctrine emerging in the rulings of treaty supervisory mechanisms, and to the hint of new challenges to, or for, the regime of refugee protection. Equally, experience gained in facing up to" new" forms of persecution or reasons for flight can translated extraterritorially into stronger protection norms and a deeper understanding of what it is to be a refugee. Meanwhile, the panelists' contributions remind people of the critical importance of international action and cooperation on refugee questions, even in the absence of any obvious or coherent legal framework.