Access to Asylum Rights across the Globe under International & Regional Laws: Challenges and the Way Forward

Md. Shahadat Hossain, S M Shahidul Islam

Abstract:

This manuscript mainly focuses on the accessibility of asylum rights from host country. It is well recognized that the population mobility is a very common phenomenon in this globalized world. People are frequently moves from one place to another for plenty of reasons but for that they need not to seek specific state protection. In contrast, massive population mobility due to persecution by the authority of their country of origin is obviously needed specific protection from the receiving country. International human rights laws and international humanitarian laws as well as regional human rights instruments are promoting and advocating state parties to grant specific protection like granting asylum to those persecuted by their home country. Therefore, the study further, examines the promotion and protection of asylum rights under international laws. Furthermore, the study highlights the key reasons behind emerging numbers of asylum seekers throughout the world and at the same time brings some of the possible way out to resolve this problems. The objective of this article is to address the national and international policy makers to put adequate afford to make asylum right easy accessible for appropriate person. This is a doctrinal research consults with both primary and secondary sources of information. The researches examine the international conventions relating to human rights and humanitarian laws. It also consults with books, articles and online materials to achieve the objectives of the study. It is the belief of the both researchers that this paper will contribute a lot in the field of international law relating to asylum in particular and human rights in general.

Keywords:

Asylum, Persecution, International Law, Political Asylum, Territorial Asylum, Extra-territorial Asylum

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