Refugee Law: Defining persecution

September 6th, 2007 • Australia, Human Rights, Law
Tags: definition, Human Rights, james-hathaway, michelle-foster, persecution, Refugee Law

This is the fourth post in an on-going series on Refugee Law, following what I’m learning in Refugee Law with Dr Michelle Foster. To read the full series go here.

A critical part of coming within the Convention definition is satisfying that the person is being persecuted for one of the enumerated reasons. International law doesn’t provide us with a definition of persecution, the framers of the Convention rightly thought that it would dangerous to limit persecution when we know how imaginatively evil humankind can be, so decision makers have often had to decide for themselves what persecution actually means, which has lead to some problems.
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