Non-refoulement is a principle in international law that concerns the protection of refugees from being returned to places where their lives or freedoms could be threatened. Unlike political asylum, which applies to those who can prove a well-grounded fear of persecution based on membership in a social group or class of persons, non-refoulement refers to the generic repatriation of people, generally refugees into war zones and other disaster areas.

History

The principle of "non-refoulement" was inscribed into written law in 1951, through the Geneva Convention accords on the Protection of Refugees.

External links

• Defining the parameters of the non-refoulement principle, LLM thesis

Emergency management