The principle of responsibility-sharing in refugee protection - an emerging norm of customary international law (original) (raw)

In December 2018, the Global Compact on Refugees was adopted. Especially over the last year, its drafting and negotiations could appear in odd contrast to the surrounding world, in which conditions for seeking asylum continued to harshen. Is the compact a step towards countering these conditions, or mere window-dressing without much effect on refugees' rights? The compact is non-binding and one widely shared view is that all will depend on how states build on it (see analyses here and here). Yet something has happened already. Over the course of the last two