Professor Vincent Chetail, Director of the Graduate Institute’s Global Migration Centre (GMC), has launched a new research project on migrants in vulnerable situations and the principle of non-refoulement.
Entitled “Protecting Migrants in Vulnerable Situations: The Principle of Non-Refoulement in International Human Rights Law”, this project – jointly led by the Global Migration Centre (GMC) and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) – will assess the scope and content of the principle of non-refoulement under international human rights law, focusing on the United Nations core human rights treaties. Its objective is to provide a coherent frame of interpretation, as well as to enable enhanced protection of migrants in a vulnerable situation and stronger respect for the non-refoulement principle.