单词 | non-refoulement |
释义 | non-refoulementn. International Law. The principle or practice of not forcibly returning refugees or asylum-seekers to a country where they are liable to suffer persecution.This legal principle was first expressed as an obligation on all U.N. countries and contracting governments in Article 33 of the 1951 United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Refugees; the term non-refoulement, however, is not used in this document. ΚΠ 1972 Internat. Organization 26 79 The convention enunciates the principle of non-refoulement, according to which no person shall be expelled or returned to ‘a territory where his life, physical integrity or liberty would be threatened’. 1983 U.N. Chron. (Nexis) Jan. 58 Concern was..expressed at increasing violation of the non-refoulement principle. 1989 Internat. Migration Rev. 23 202 For situations of mass influx of asylum seekers, states..are to grant temporary asylum. Failure to do so would undermine the principle of non-refoulement. 2001 Daily Tel. 4 Sept. 20/5 Signatories to the convention..accept certain obligations. The most important is ‘non-refoulement’—not sending someone back into a situation of possible persecution. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1972 |
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