International protection of refugees during internal armed conflicts

Abstract

The past and present century has witnessed a remarkable historical development in terms of the legal status of refugees in the world, especially with the ratification and entry into force of many international conventions, charters and instruments, which have now formed refugee law as one of the branches of international law concerned with the legalization of refugee rights. , And the designation of the international protection regime and the parties obliged to implement it on the other hand. If it is true that the internal armed conflicts have serious consequences and the results are very bad, there is no doubt that the resulting human losses is the most dangerous at all, which is not limited to the dead and wounded and the disabled only, but extends to include refugees, so the issue of refugees of the most important The issues that States and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations give special attention at present, given their different dimensions and implications for the security and economy of the countries of asylum, on the one hand, and the need of refugee persons for assistance and protection on the other. This study examines the process of international legalization of the refugee concept and the legal texts and provisions relating to its rights, as set out in the Refugee Law, Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law. It also deals with the classification of target groups and beneficiaries of refugee laws, The scope of the expansion of refugee situations and, of necessity, the examination of the content of the relationship between refugees and host States in terms of mutual rights and obligations, as well as the understanding of that interrelationship, makes it possible to distinguish between the effects and connotations of both international protection and temporary protection Refugees.