WHO PROTECTS THE UNPROTECTED INTERNATIONAL AND INDIA’S DE FACTO LEGAL AND POLITICAL FRAMEWORKS OF REFUGEES THROUGH THE LENS OF HUMAN RIGHTS
AUTHOR – AMIN DHWANI, STUDENT AT GUJARAT NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY, SILVASSA
BEST CITATION – AMIN DHWANI, WHO PROTECTS THE UNPROTECTED INTERNATIONAL AND INDIA’S DE FACTO LEGAL AND POLITICAL FRAMEWORKS OF REFUGEES THROUGH THE LENS OF HUMAN RIGHTS, INDIAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL REVIEW (IJLR), 5 (8) OF 2025, PG. 919-922, APIS – 3920 – 0001 & ISSN – 2583-2344
INTRODUCTION
“No one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land.”
The world has been the witness of massive disruption for multiple times. Whenever we scrutinize the tensed events, wars and agonizing incidents of our history, we only see the one side of coin which conveys the winners and losers of the circumstance. But another side of coin shows the loss of humanity, homicide. No one wins or lose the war but war wins over the humanity. To acquire the humanism in modern era one body have set the milestone, UDHR (united declaration of human rights) the declaration ensures the human rights, the rights which are inalienable from humans. Humans have right to life and when this right gets infringe the human flee for the protection, called refugees. The air of animosity among the nations can’t take away the rights of humans and this is what the International convention of 1951 ensures, 1st International refugee convention. India was “non-signatory” to the convention, despite of not being the member of convention India performs significant legal and political role in the matter of Refugees. This article explores the intersection of international refugee law, human rights frameworks, and India’s de facto approach to refugee protection.