NON REFOULEMENT

Subject : International Relations

Context : Supreme Court must rethink its order on deportation of Rohingya refugees.

Concept :

Non-refoulement is a fundamental principle of international law that forbids a country receiving asylum seekers from returning them to a country in which they would be in likely danger of persecution based on “race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion”.
Unlike political asylum, which applies to those who can prove a well-grounded fear of persecution based on certain category of persons, non-refoulement refers to the generic repatriation of people, including refugees into war zones and other disaster locales.
It is a principle of customary international law, as it applies even to states that are not partiesto the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees or its 1967 Protocol.
It is also a principle of the Trucial law of nations.