There is no right of refugees in this place.
In both the global north and south, the right of refugees to seek asylum is being eroded.
Jonas Christoffersen, the director of the Danish Institute for Human Rights, told Al Jazeera: "The right of refugees to be reunited with their family is protected by numerous international conventions ratified by Denmark.
On the other intractable issue -- the right of Palestinian refugees to return to Israel -- Mr. Herzog said Israel would affirm the right of refugees to return but would hold veto power over individual applications.
In an uncompromising speech, Netanyahu insisted the Palestinians must abandon their core demand of the right of refugees to return to their places of origin.
And in the position paper, the Palestinians assert the right of refugees to return to the "homes from which they were driven" in what is now Israel.
7. We recognize the right of refugees to return voluntarily to their homes and properties in dignity and safety, and urge all states to facilitate such return.
Israeli and American negotiators were astonished when peace talks foundered more than a year ago, in part over the right of refugees to return.
Lawyers for the four young refugees argued that the Home Office routinely ignored the right of refugees to be reunited with family members already in the UK, under a European asylum rule known as the Dublin III regulation.
This, he intimated, was but the first step to impose a leadership that would give up Palestinians' aspirations to self-determination, national sovereignty and a right of refugees' return.
Masud is set to become a test case in a legal challenge starting on 18 January against the Home Office, amid allegations that it often ignores the right of refugees to family reunification under the so-called Dublin rules.
