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Course Code:
Credit Units: 3
Course Objective:
The objective of the course is to familiarise students with the primary legal regime
of International Humanitarian Law as well as the legal regime associated with
Protection of Refugees.
The course also seeks to make students familiar with the issue of refugees
displaced persons and other forced migrants and the protections available to them
under international law. The course will focus on principles and concepts of
Refugee Protection such as Asylum, Non-refoulement, Non-discrimination, Safe
Haven Concepts, Principles of Family Unity etc. The course will also emphasise on
the Role of UNHCR and the protection of refugees in India and its challenges.
Pre-requisites:
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Knowledge and Understanding
• be able to show the ability to plan and carry out qualified tasks through
adequate methods in set timeframes and by doing so contribute to the
development of knowledge
• be able to show the ability to evaluate the outcomes of his or her work
• be able to show in oral as well as in written form, the ability to describe and
discuss the findings and conclusions in their work and the knowledge and
the arguments upon which the conclusions are founded
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• An ability show a consciousness of ethical application of IHL in conduct of
hostilities and appreciate the challenges posed by asymmetrical warfare to
the protections envisaged in International Humanitarian Law.
The student will learn to understand the law governing warfare and refugees and
their impacts on other areas with legal implications and to identify its own needs
of knowledge and to take responsibility for its further development of knowledge.
Course Contents/Syllabus:
Weightage
%
List of Experiments: NA
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Assessment/ Examination Scheme:
Mid-Term Exam
Project 10%
Viva 10%
Attendance 5%
5%
Suggested Readings:
Humanitarian Law
1. Dieter Fleck, The Handbook of International Humanitarian Law (Oxford
University Press, 2013)
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4. V.S. Mani (ed.), Handbook of International Humanitarian Law in South Asia
(Oxford University Press, 2007).
Refugee Law
5. Nagendra Singh, The Role and Record of the UN High Commissioner for
Refugees (Macmillan, 1994).
6. Ragani Trakroo and others, Refugee and the Law (Human Rights Law Network
and Socio Legal Information Centre, New Delhi, 2005).
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