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Protection: challenges to the United Nations High Commission for Refugee and Malaysia’s government

Refugee or asylum seekers are more than simply a human rights issue.Refugee movements are also an essential part of international politics.This study will delve into the Malaysian government and United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) challenges for the protection of refugee in Malaysia....

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Main Authors: Kunapalan, Hemamalani, Ismail, Norafidah, Yatiban, Aminurraasyid
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2016
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JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration
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spelling my.uum.repo.204222016-12-22T07:12:16Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/20422/ Protection: challenges to the United Nations High Commission for Refugee and Malaysia’s government Kunapalan, Hemamalani Ismail, Norafidah Yatiban, Aminurraasyid JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration Refugee or asylum seekers are more than simply a human rights issue.Refugee movements are also an essential part of international politics.This study will delve into the Malaysian government and United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) challenges for the protection of refugee in Malaysia.The UNHCR operation in Malaysia is not without problems.Even though Malaysia is not a signatory to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol, that does not mean that nothing can be done to protect the refugees in the country.The reasons Malaysia should cooperate with UNHCR needs to be addressed rapidly to find a long term solution for this problem.This will then followed by analyzing Malaysia’s international commitment and obligation relating to Refugee in general .Discussion will touch on the role of Malaysia as a state party to the United Nation(UN) and it’s refusal to ratify the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugee (CRSR).Other dimension of this paper is the highlight of the mechanism that Malaysia’s government should adapt to assist the UNHCR in resolving the challenges. Finding of this study will show the extent of protection offered to refugees under domestic laws and the reasons why Malaysia should fulfill its international obligation towards refugee and also the further effort that must be initiated to clinch compliance to protection under international law. 2016-10-05 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/20422/1/ICOGPA%202016%201%2010.pdf Kunapalan, Hemamalani and Ismail, Norafidah and Yatiban, Aminurraasyid (2016) Protection: challenges to the United Nations High Commission for Refugee and Malaysia’s government. In: International Conference on Government & Public Affairs 2016 (ICOGPA2016), October 5th - 6th, 2016, School of Government, Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM), Sintok, Kedah, Malaysia. http://icogpa2016.weebly.com/
institution Universiti Utara Malaysia
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topic JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration
spellingShingle JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration
Kunapalan, Hemamalani
Ismail, Norafidah
Yatiban, Aminurraasyid
Protection: challenges to the United Nations High Commission for Refugee and Malaysia’s government
description Refugee or asylum seekers are more than simply a human rights issue.Refugee movements are also an essential part of international politics.This study will delve into the Malaysian government and United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) challenges for the protection of refugee in Malaysia.The UNHCR operation in Malaysia is not without problems.Even though Malaysia is not a signatory to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol, that does not mean that nothing can be done to protect the refugees in the country.The reasons Malaysia should cooperate with UNHCR needs to be addressed rapidly to find a long term solution for this problem.This will then followed by analyzing Malaysia’s international commitment and obligation relating to Refugee in general .Discussion will touch on the role of Malaysia as a state party to the United Nation(UN) and it’s refusal to ratify the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugee (CRSR).Other dimension of this paper is the highlight of the mechanism that Malaysia’s government should adapt to assist the UNHCR in resolving the challenges. Finding of this study will show the extent of protection offered to refugees under domestic laws and the reasons why Malaysia should fulfill its international obligation towards refugee and also the further effort that must be initiated to clinch compliance to protection under international law.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Kunapalan, Hemamalani
Ismail, Norafidah
Yatiban, Aminurraasyid
author_facet Kunapalan, Hemamalani
Ismail, Norafidah
Yatiban, Aminurraasyid
author_sort Kunapalan, Hemamalani
title Protection: challenges to the United Nations High Commission for Refugee and Malaysia’s government
title_short Protection: challenges to the United Nations High Commission for Refugee and Malaysia’s government
title_full Protection: challenges to the United Nations High Commission for Refugee and Malaysia’s government
title_fullStr Protection: challenges to the United Nations High Commission for Refugee and Malaysia’s government
title_full_unstemmed Protection: challenges to the United Nations High Commission for Refugee and Malaysia’s government
title_sort protection: challenges to the united nations high commission for refugee and malaysia’s government
publishDate 2016
url http://repo.uum.edu.my/20422/1/ICOGPA%202016%201%2010.pdf
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