Sentence examples for refoulement to from inspiring English sources

"It is clear refoulement to send someone back home, when they have been found to be a refugee; especially to places where there is an active war occurring.

It is refoulement to return a very sick person to a place where there is no adequate healthcare and they will only deteriorate.

Although it theoretically provides a frame protecting some migrant groups, such as pregnant women or minors, and limiting refoulement to the borders, those provisions do not appear to be thoroughly implemented yet [ 13, 14].

"It was at the time of the refoulement to Oujda, when they [Moroccan soldiers] set us free, we were looking for a way to come back to the city.

This crisis is an opportunity for Europe to uphold its commitments to the principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the 1951 Convention on Refugees and its Protocol; to respect basic human dignity and the principle of 'non refoulement'; to uphold the  foundation values  of  the European Union and the core principles of its Human Rights legislation.

The term "non-refoulement" refers to a legal principle to which many countries are bound, protecting asylum seekers and refugees from being sent back to a place of persecution.

"If Australia is putting pressure on Syrian citizens to return, this is in violation of international law and the principle of non-refoulement – not to return anyone, regardless of status, to a place where they would be persecuted".

"That is why Labor must stand by the principle of non-refoulement, central to the refugee convention, of which Australia is a signatory," she wrote.

The central principle of non-refoulement belongs to customary law.

The convention, which has since been signed by 145 countries, defined the term "refugee" as well as their rights and the obligations of nations to protect them, including, crucially, a protection against refoulement – returning people to countries where they face serious threats to life or freedom.

Cochtel said the agency had "some concerns about the return of Afghans to Turkey" because they faced the risk of refoulement, being returned to a warzone.