ООН и права беженцев

Abstract

The article analyzes various approaches to and forms of the international protection of refugees, highlights the system of legal mechanisms of refugee rights protection. It aims to draw stronger attention to the most vulnerable group of people — refugees, to educate the readers, primarily, lawyers and scholars, teachers and students in the refugee rights, to encourage interest in the refugee rights studies and to present a concise but comprehensive picture of the contemporary system of the UN legal instruments used to implement the refugees' human rights for the attention of government officials, migration service, law-enforcing agencies, border guards, judges, advocate lawyers and NGOs. The article also presents an analysis of the UN human rights protection mechanisms which can be used for the purpose. It is shown that resorting to these mechanisms should be viewed as complementing the regional means, but not in isolation. The use of combined means in strategic and practical protection of refugee rights can significantly raise the efficiency of each of them.