Human Rights Law: human rights of Syrian migrants
Human Rights Law: human rights of Syrian migrants
To what extent are regional and international human rights documents effective in relation to the recognition and protection of the human rights of Syrian migrants?
In order to produce a good answer, you must identify the issues raised by the question; explain those issues with reference to authority to support them; address the issues from two sides to produce a balanced argument and assignment; based on your research come to a conclusion to answer the question set. At the minimum, in your assignment, you should:
– focus on the treatment/situation of Syrian migrants in one country. You are to identify and describe what this treatment/situation is.
– identify what human rights you think are engaged by this treatment/situation. Choose maximum of three.
– focus on ONE regional or international human rights document that the country you have chosen to focus on has ratified. What type(s) of human rights are in this document? Does the document cover the human rights that you have identified as engaged by the treatment/situation? If so, how are these rights drafted? What is the nature of the rights? Do the rights apply in this situation?
– how would you reform/change this document to make to make it more effective on the issue of recognition of rights? In this discussion of your planned reforms you are to make reference to another international and or regional human rights document as well as academic sources.
– focus on the enforcement mechanism in the regional or international human rights document that you have chosen. What type of enforcement mechanism is it? Explain the enforcement mechanism(s)? How effective are the enforcement mechanism(s) from the perspective of the Syrian migrants?
– how would you reform/change this document to make to make it more effective on the issue of enforcement of rights? In this discussion of your planned reforms you are to make reference to another international and or regional human rights document as well as academic sources.
You should focus on the Arab Charter and Lebanon.
Arab charter- lebanon focusing on the the problems of birth and marriage registration at the camp and if their rights are being meet or breached. refugees legal status, lack of education and health care, lack of family life and forced labour are all the problems being faced by migrants .
Regional treaty- analyse the positive aspect of regional and cultural relativism and how they can be useful and un-useful. comparison of the Arab charter 1994 and 2004. analyse the depth of the human rights in lebanon – Arab charter. analyse how effective international human rights are. treaty law and regional law
