Humanitarian and Refugee Laws

1. Conceptual Perspective
   1. Problems of international violence, civil wars and refugees
2. International Humanitarian Law (IHL)
   1. Origin and development
   2. Role of IHL in non-international armed conflicts
   3. Role of International Red Cross and NGOs
   4. Implementation and Enforcement of IHL
      1. Concept of Protecting Power
      2. United Nations
      3. International Criminal Courts and Tribunals
      4. Unilateralism: 'humanitarian' intervention versus state sovereignty
3. International Refugee Law
   1. The History of International Refugee Law: Cold War Origins
   2. to Rights of People who are not Citizens
   3. Determination of Refugee Status under the Refugee Convention, 1951 and Protocol, 1967
   4. Protection under International Law
      1. Right of non-refoulement
      2. Right to Asylum
      3. UNHCR and Refuge protection
      4. Special problems of protection of refugee women and children
4. Status of refugees in India under UNHCR
5. Solution of Refugee problem