Christel Querton's Outputs (10)

Protection from indiscriminate violence in armed conflict: The scope of subsidiary protection in the European Union (2024)
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The article discusses the relationship between subsidiary protection status granted to persons fleeing indiscriminate violence in armed conflicts under Article 15(c) of the EU Qualification Directive/Regulation and international humanitarian law. Thi... Read More about Protection from indiscriminate violence in armed conflict: The scope of subsidiary protection in the European Union.

Country guidance, country of origin information and the international protection needs of persons fleeing armed conflicts (2023)
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The article explores whether the European Union Agency for Asylum's country guidance (CG) reflects the international protection needs of persons fleeing armed conflicts. It uses the Agency's guidance on Iraq as a case study through the lens of object... Read More about Country guidance, country of origin information and the international protection needs of persons fleeing armed conflicts.

Women in refugee law, policy and practice: An introduction to the refugee survey quarterly special issue (2022)
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As co-founders and conveners of the Women in Refugee Law (WiRL) network, we are delighted to introduce this Special Issue. The contributors are WiRL members who take forward the network's objectives of recentring the study of refugee women by reviewi... Read More about Women in refugee law, policy and practice: An introduction to the refugee survey quarterly special issue.

Non-State actors of protection and the sliding scale of protection for refugee women (2022)
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The article argues that although the gradual recognition of non-State actors as agents of persecution was hailed as a success in ensuring better protection for refugee women at risk of harm from their community or family, the associated development o... Read More about Non-State actors of protection and the sliding scale of protection for refugee women.

Editorial: Sexuality, gender and asylum: Refugees at a crossroads (2022)
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Human rights have been increasingly recognized irrespective of one's sexual orientation of gender identity (SOGI) at international, regional and domestic levels; however, legal frameworks do not yet tackle violations of such rights effectively. As a... Read More about Editorial: Sexuality, gender and asylum: Refugees at a crossroads.

One step forward, two steps back? Interpreting 'particular social group' in the European Union (2022)
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The article tests the claim of feminist scholars that concerns about gender have been marginalised in refugee law, by exploring the interpretation given to the concept of a 'Particular Social Group' set out in the 1951 Refugee Convention. It is argue... Read More about One step forward, two steps back? Interpreting 'particular social group' in the European Union.

Case notes and comments: Secretary of state for the Home Department v OA [2021] EUECJ C-255/19 (2021)
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Gender and the boundaries of international refugee law: Beyond the category of ‘gender-related asylum claims’ (2019)
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The adoption of gender guidelines aiming to ensure consistency in gender-sensitive interpretation of the UN Refugee Convention definition demonstrates a general acceptance that gender is relevant to the question of who is a refugee. However, there is... Read More about Gender and the boundaries of international refugee law: Beyond the category of ‘gender-related asylum claims’.

Book review: Protecting the Rights of Refugees Beyond European Borders, by Lisa Heschl. (Cambridge: Intersentia, 2018) (2019)
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Case notes and comments: MK (section 55 – Tribunal options) [2015] UKUT 223 (IAC) (15 April 2015) (2015)
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