Do Human Rights Treaties Help Asylum-Seekers?: Lessons from the United Kingdom
The following blog post summarizes Do Human Rights Treaties Help Asylum-Seekers?: Lessons from the United Kingdom (48 Vand. J. Transnat’l L. 123 (2015)) by Stephen Meili. Several international human rights treaties offer protection to refugees who flee their home countries to escape persecution.. While these treaties have been widely adopted, the effectiveness and consistency of their use in domestic courts by asylum-seekers varies. Why have some human rights instruments as