Rerun: The End of Asylum?
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According to article 14 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, \\u201cEveryone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.\\u201d But that promise, which was enshrined three years later in the 1951 Refugee Convention, has never been completely honored. In fact, it has been progressively eroded in recent years across the Global North, even as the numbers of refugees and asylum-seekers around the world have swelled.\\xa0
Just last month, the Parliament of Denmark passed a law allowing it to relocate asylum-seekers outside Europe while their claims are being processed. A similar measure is under consideration in the United Kingdom, while Australia has long maintained such a policy. Here in the United States, former President Donald Trump\\u2019s administration enacted a policy known as \\u201cRemain in Mexico,\\u201d under which asylum-seekers were forced to wait across the border in Mexico, often in unsafe environments, while their claims were processed.\\xa0
Today on Trend Lines, Khalid Koser, executive director of the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund, joins WPR\\u2019s Elliot Waldman to discuss the past, present and potential future of the right to asylum, and what it might take to revive this critical component of the international legal system. If you would like to request a full transcript of the episode, please send an email to podcast@worldpoliticsreview.com.
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