Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2005
Abstract
There is a frequent critique of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees’ protection role, which goes like this: as UNHCR has grown as a humanitarian aid delivery agency, law and human rights have lost currency. In Rights in Exile: Janus-Faced Humanitarianism, Guglielmo Verdirame and Barbara Harrell-Bond (with Zachary Lomo and Hannah Garry) take this as a starting point from which to reach a far more searing conclusion: UNHCR itself directly violates the human rights of the people it is supposed to protect. Detailed, direct and at times passionate, this book should be required reading for anyone who wants to know what is really happening to refugee protection. It should also require a response.
Publication Citation
18 J. Refugee Stud. 241 (2005).
Recommended Citation
Kagan, Michael, "Book Review" (2005). Scholarly Works. 642.
https://scholars.law.unlv.edu/facpub/642