What other obligations does international law have in terms of the rights of asylum seekers and refugees?
Well, it s a pretty standard catalogue in one sense. The key one I ve mentioned, the right not to be sent back so long as the risk persists in your own country. That is the most fundamental right. Beyond that there is a list of basic civil rights, such as freedom of movement that are included. There are some important socio-economic rights; the idea being that the drafters of the Convention didn t want refugees to be a burden upon their asylum state. They wanted refugees to be effectively self-sufficient by being in a position to work, for example, and to earn their own living. There are also a number of rights that speak to the solutions to refugeehood, either the ability ultimately to repatriate or to be resettled in other state or to stay in the country of asylum so long as the risk goes on. Now I think we can turn to the refugee protection model advocated in the Green Paper. Would like you to explain the basic ideas behind this model? If I could give you the backdrop to this, it is
