60 https://www.uni-bremen.de/chancengleichheit/ueber-uns/highlights-und-historie/diversity-uni-bremen/archiv-2019-21-diversity-uni-bremen-international-prospects-challenges Queering University de Universität Bremen Sat, 16 May 2026 04:48:55 +0200 Sat, 16 May 2026 04:48:55 +0200 Universität Bremen content-341461 Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:46:29 +0100 https://www.uni-bremen.de/chancengleichheit/ueber-uns/highlights-und-historie/diversity-uni-bremen/archiv-2019-21-diversity-uni-bremen-international-prospects-challenges#c341461 <p>Modern international refugee law starts with the 1951 UN Convention relating to the Status of Refugees. That treaty effectively places obligations on the country of asylum <em>vis-à-vis </em>refugees and asylum seekers, but apart from Article 34 that exhorts the country of asylum to naturalize refugees, there is almost nothing on sustainable and durable solutions to displacement. Equally, there is nothing dealing with the country of nationality that caused the displacement. Paragraph 4 of the Preamble to the Convention talks of international co- operation to meet the burden created though hosting refugee populations, but that is the full extent of the burden- and responsibility-sharing assumed; when one takes into account that 85% of the world’s refugees are in low- or middle-income countries, it shows the disparity as between states in meeting the needs of refugees.</p> <p>This presentation will consider how protection is broader than rights and how the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) has developed UNHCR’s mandate yet further so as to develop a framework for the entire international community (states, international organizations, the third sector) to ensure enhanced rights and assistance for refugees and host communities that lead to durable and sustainable solutions and to effect fairer and more predictable burden and responsibility-sharing by the international community as a whole, even though the GCR explicitly states that it is not binding in international law.</p> <p><em>Part of YUFE</em><em> D&I Lecture Series</em></p> Content