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What does India gain nowadays by continuing to give asylum to the Dalai Lama?
India gains moral authority which enhances its "soft power". It also promotes goodwill with Buddhists of all kinds (not just Tibetan Buddhists) and other people who view the Dalai Lama as a ...
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Does North Korea accept asylum seekers?
Generally speaking you can always seek asylum, the question is what happens to you afterwards. For what it's worth, North Korea is not a party to the main UN Convention about refugees. So it's not ...
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Does North Korea accept asylum seekers?
Yes, they have accepted some. Wikipedia lists people from South Korea and the USA, including deserters from the Korean War (there is a British soldier included), for example.
Of course, that does not ...
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Can withdrawing asylum be illegal?
what international law(s) are at play here?
In the case of Assange being removed from the Ecuadorian embassy with the consent of the ambassador -- only the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
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What are the Realpolitik benefits in taking in refugees from the perspective of Europe?
First let's take a look at the definition of the word Realpolitik:
Politics based on practical and material factors rather than on theoretical or ethical objectives
Under that definition there are ...
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What does India gain nowadays by continuing to give asylum to the Dalai Lama?
Additionally, according to a 2008 article in the Times of India, in more recent times, the current Dalai Lama seems to back India's sovereignty over Arunachal Pradesh (a state of the size of Scotland),...
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Does North Korea accept asylum seekers?
You can read about the last one who tried:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Todd_Miller
An American guy went there as a tourist, destroyed his passport and asked for asylum. His claim was ...
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Can withdrawing asylum be illegal?
The obvious candidate treaty is the 1951 Refugee Convention, of which Ecuador seems to be a contracting party. This has at least two relevant articles, dealing with expulsion in general, and return ...
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Does the right to self-determination trump the requirement to accept refugees in international law?
The situation in international law is that sovereign states can exercise sovereignty within their borders, subject to treaty obligations. This means that there is no automatic right for regions to ...
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Why doesn’t the UK allow asylum applications to be made from overseas?
The UK government isn't concerned with making it easy to apply for asylum. On the contrary, it tries to make it difficult.
Asylum isn't some sort of visa. The idea of an "asylum seeker visa"...
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What are the Realpolitik benefits in taking in refugees from the perspective of Europe?
TL;DR: Europe is a) merely being pragmatic about the situation and b) acting in its long-term self-interest.
First off, keep the numbers in perspective. However massive the recent influx of migrants ...
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What are the Realpolitik benefits in taking in refugees from the perspective of Europe?
The right to asylum is an inherently moral issue, and removing that aspect of it is nonsensical.
But as that is your question: Ignoring the countless moral arguments, there are a couple of ...
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Can withdrawing asylum be illegal?
Assange was a citizen of Ecuador (at least until Ecuador decided to stop protecting him), so the only law that applies to Ecuador's decision to allow the UK to arrest him in Ecuador's embassy is the ...
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What is the difference between war refugees and deserters?
The difference is where you are. There is no contradiction.
In the country you are fleeing from, you are a deserter. In the country you are fleeing to, you are an asylum seeker.
The same is true for ...
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Could the British policy of sending asylum seekers to Rwanda be described as "extraordinary rendition"?
If "extraordinary rendition" does mean "the practice of enforcing, without legal process, the removal of detained individuals from one jurisdiction to another" then no, the ...
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Are there any negotiations underway to return Syrian refugees back to peaceful parts of Syria?
Since Russia has recently announced they're withdrawing a part of
their troops and most of the non-Kurdish regions are now under Assad's
control, it's clear that the 7 year war is coming to an end ...
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If the EU claims to support the immigration of genuine refugees, why aren't there asylum processing centers abroad?
There are, it's called “resettlement” and the process is administered by the UNHCR, directly in the refugee camps where most refugees are. In 2014, Germany, Sweden, and Norway accepted around 2000 ...
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Are Jews fleeing France able to flee to any countries other than Israel?
First of all, many countries have open or semi-open immigration policies.
My answer here lists countries with most open policies. You merely need a small (by Western standards) guaranteed income to ...
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Are Jews fleeing France able to flee to any countries other than Israel?
French Jews are not able to emigrate to Israel on the basis of being under threat of hate crime. They are able to Emigrate as Jewish People. Israel has a law which allows for most Jewish people to ...
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What is the current state of the plan to send those seeking asylum in the UK to Rwanda?
It's impossible to say when, or indeed whether, any deportations under this plan will take place.
Currently, the plan has been blocked by an interim measure granted by the European Court of Human ...
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Why did Ecuador protect Julian Assange for such a long time?
Ecuador doesn't have much to gain by Julian Assange's continued presence in the embassy but it would severely damage their reputation internationally if they reneged on their offer of asylum and ...
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Why did Australia grant refugee visas to Syrians despite their extremely harsh immigration policies?
The official message of the Turnbull government is that the “Pacific solution” is intended to discourage the dangerous passage by sea and undermine criminal networks making money out of it. In that ...
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Is the UK going to abandon asylum for refugees?
The Government's position is indeed that only those who claim asylum through 'safe and legal routes' will be eligible for asylum in the UK. This was set out by Sunak on the 13th in the House of ...
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Are countries required by law to accept refugees?
The main international law governing refugees is the 1951 Refugee Convention. The majority of the nations in the world have signed this treaty (and/or its 1967 Protocol); notable exceptions include ...
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Why don't countries opposing the inflow of refugees leave the 1951 Refugee Convention?
The convention has no enforcement mechanism of any kind, states can (and do) easily ignore it and many also have pretty funky reservations (as an example with some relevance today, note that Turkey ...
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What legal recourse is available in the EU if it turns out that Greece has been doing "illegal pushbacks" of asylum seekers?
Your posting mixes advocacy and questions.
Non-refoulement does not allow a refugee to cross as many borders as he or she likes. It requires the refugee to be processed and housed at the first safe ...
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Can a political ally provide political asylum?
Yes, it can happen.
One example is Denise Harvey, a citizen of the USA who was given asylum in Canada in 2014. Harvey had been convicted of having sex with a 16 year-old boy, which was a crime in her ...
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Are there any negotiations underway to return Syrian refugees back to peaceful parts of Syria?
Refugees have been returning to Syria throughout 2017.
According to a UN refugee agency (UNHCR) report, quoted in a BBC article from 2017.06.30, 500, 000 Syrian refugees returned to their homes in ...
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