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A House with Two Rooms - The Advocates for Human Rights

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Notes<br />

1 u.s. Committee <strong>for</strong> refugees, world refugee<br />

survey 2008 31.<br />

2 See International Covenant on Civil and Political<br />

<strong>Rights</strong> Preamble, G.A. Res. 2200A (XXI), U.N. Doc.<br />

A/6316 (1966), entered into <strong>for</strong>ce Mar. 23, 1976, 999<br />

U.N.T.S. 171 [hereinafter ICCPR]; International<br />

Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural <strong>Rights</strong><br />

Preamble, G.A. Res. 2200A (XXI), U.N. Doc.<br />

A/6316 (1966), entered into <strong>for</strong>ce Jan. 3, 1976, 993<br />

U.N.T.S. 3 [hereinafter ICESCR]; Convention on the<br />

Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against<br />

Women, G.A. Res. 34/180, 34 U.N. GAOR Supp.<br />

(No. 46) at 193, U.N. Doc. A/34/46, entered into <strong>for</strong>ce<br />

Sept. 3, 1981 [hereinafter CEDAW]; International<br />

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of<br />

Racial Discrimination (CERD), 660 U.N.T.S. 195,<br />

entered into <strong>for</strong>ce Jan. 4, 1969; Convention Against<br />

Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading<br />

Treatment or Punishment, G.A. Res. 39/46, annex,<br />

39 U.N. GAOR Supp. (No. 51) at 197, U.N. Doc.<br />

A/39/51 (1984), entered into <strong>for</strong>ce June 26, 1987<br />

[hereinafter CAT]; Convention on the <strong>Rights</strong> of<br />

the Child, G.A. Res. 44/25, annex, 44 U.N. GAOR<br />

Supp. (No. 49) at 167, U.N. Doc. A/44/49 (1989),<br />

entered into <strong>for</strong>ce Sept. 2, 1990 [hereinafter Conv. on<br />

<strong>Rights</strong> of the Child]; and Optional Protocol to the<br />

Conv. on <strong>Rights</strong> of the Child on Children in Armed<br />

Conflict, G.A. Res. 54/263, Annex I, 54 U.N. GAOR<br />

Supp. (No. 49) at 7, U.N. Doc. A/54/49, Vol. III<br />

(2000), entered into <strong>for</strong>ce February 12, 2002 (providing<br />

protections to refugees who also fall <strong>with</strong>in the<br />

scope of these specific treaties).<br />

3 United Nations Treaty Collection, http://<br />

treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDetails.<br />

aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=V-<br />

5&chapter=5&lang=en (last visited June 10, 2009).<br />

4 Press Release, U.N. High Commissioner <strong>for</strong><br />

Refugees, UNHCR Marks 50th Anniversary of U.N.<br />

Refugee Convention (July 26, 2001).<br />

5 Id.<br />

6 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees art.<br />

1(A)(2), July 28, 1951, 189 U.N.T.S. 150, entered<br />

into <strong>for</strong>ce April 22, 1954[hereinafter 1951 Refugee<br />

Convention].<br />

7 Id. art. 1(F).<br />

8 Id. art. 1(C).<br />

560<br />

9 Organization of African Unity Convention<br />

Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee<br />

Problems in Africa art. 1(2), June 20, 1974, 1001<br />

U.N.T.S. 45 [hereinafter OAU Refugee Convention].<br />

10 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(42)(A) (2008).<br />

11 REAL ID Act, Pub. L. 109-13, 119 Stat. 231 (May<br />

11, 2005).<br />

12 8 U.S.C. § 1158(b)(2) (2008).<br />

13 8 U.S.C. § 1158(c)(2) (2008).<br />

14 OAU Refugee Convention art. 33(1). See also<br />

Compilation of General Comments and General<br />

Recommendations Adopted by <strong>Human</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> Treaty Bodies:<br />

Addendum 25-28, U.N. Doc. HRI/GEN/1/<br />

Rev.7/Add.1 (May 4, 2005) [hereinafter Gen. Rec.<br />

30] (containing General Recommendation 30<br />

of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial<br />

Discrimination, outlining specific responsibilities<br />

vis-à-vis non-citizens in the context of expulsion and<br />

deportation, including ensuring that non-citizens are<br />

not returned or removed to a country or territory<br />

where they are at risk of being subject to serious<br />

human rights abuses, including torture and cruel,<br />

inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment).<br />

15 1951 Refugee Convention, supra note 6, art. 31(1).<br />

16 Id. art. 32.<br />

17 Id. art. 33(2).<br />

18 “No person shall be subjected by a Member State to<br />

measures such as rejection at the frontier, return or<br />

expulsion, which would compel him to return to or<br />

remain in a territory where his life, physical integrity<br />

or liberty would be threatened <strong>for</strong> the reasons set<br />

out in Article I, paragraphs 1 and 2.” OAU Refugee<br />

Convention, supra note 9, art. 2(3).<br />

19 In contrast, the 1951 Convention provides no<br />

geographic requirement over its non-refoulement<br />

obligation. Article 33(1) of the 1951 Refugee<br />

Convention reads:<br />

No Contracting State shall expel or return<br />

(“refouler”) a refugee in any manner whatsoever<br />

to the frontiers of territories where his life or<br />

freedom would be threatened on account of<br />

his race, religion, nationality, membership of a<br />

particular social group or political opinion.<br />

1951 Refugee Convention, supra note 6, art.<br />

33(1). This <strong>for</strong>mulation has “allowed” <strong>for</strong><br />

controversial interpretations such as that of the<br />

United State Supreme Court in Sale v. Haitian<br />

Ctrs. Council, 113 S. Ct. 2549, 125 L. (92-344),<br />

509 U.S. 155 (1993). In Sale, the Court ruled

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