Responding to the COVID-19 Crisis While Protecting Asylum Seekers

Responding to the COVID-19 Crisis While Protecting Asylum Seekers (Updated March 25, 2020) Amnesty International USA, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières USA, Human Rights First, Physicians for Human Rights, Refugees International, and Women’s Refugee Commission call on the Trump Administration to immediately rescind its policy of shutting the border to people seeking asylum in the United States. Turning back men,...

READ MORE Responding to the COVID-19 Crisis While Protecting Asylum Seekers

Panda & the Death of SEO PR

New Customers Save $100: Receive our Buzz Builder™ Press Release Distribution for just $199. [1] Included below – In the “old days”: SEO skyrockets results First: Google’s Panda clobbers “SEO-Enhanced” pages Next: Google confirms importance of PR in SEO Google patent reveals it’s time to think outside the link Way, way back in the pre-2000 days of Google and Yahoo,...

READ MORE Panda & the Death of SEO PR

Asylum Seekers & Refugees

United States law enshrines the protections of the international Refugee Convention, drafted in the wake of the horrors of World War II. The law provides that any person “physically present in the United States or who arrives in the United States … irrespective of such [person’s] status, may apply for asylum[1]…” For asylum seekers, making it to the United States...

READ MORE Asylum Seekers & Refugees

TEMPORARY REFUGE FROM WAR: CUSTOMARY INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE SYRIAN CONFLICT | International & Comparative Law Quarterly

This section reviews academic authorities on relevant State practice, before considering the position of international organizations and international courts concerning the rule. Its current application in relation to Syrian refugees is examined in sections III and IV. A. Doctrine Temporary refuge has been described by Coles as a practice ‘to facilitate admission and the obtaining of satisfactory solutions’ in situations...

READ MORE TEMPORARY REFUGE FROM WAR: CUSTOMARY INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE SYRIAN CONFLICT | International & Comparative Law Quarterly