Leasing Rights: A New International Instrument for Protecting Refugees and Compensating Host Countries
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Instrument for Protecting Refugees and
Compensating Host Countries
by Eve B. Burton*
INTRODUCTION
The international laws designed to protect the world's refugees'
were established in the aftermath of World War II when displaced
Jews, Hungarians, and Czechs moved from their war-ravaged countries
to the United States and Europe.2 Expanding economies on both sides
of the Atlantic absorbed the majority of these arrivals.3 Today, over
80% of the world's ten million refugees are located in the globe's least
* B.A., Hampshire College (1982); J.D. Columbia University (expected 1989);
Submissions Editor, Columbia Human Rights Law Review (1988-89). For his help
and inspiration on two continents, I thank my husband, John Finck.
1. The primary international treaties concerning refugees are the United Nations
Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, opened for signature July 28, 1951, 19
U.S.T. 6259, T.I.A.S. No. 6577, 189 U.N.T.S. 137 [hereinafter Convention], and
the United Nations Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, opened for signature,
Jan. 31, 1967, 19 U.S.T. 6223, T.I.A.S. No. 6577, 606 U.N.T.S. 267 [hereinafter
Protocol]. The recognized definition of refugee in these treaties is a person who
owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality,
membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of
his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of
the protection of that country; or who, not having a nationality and being outside the
country of his former habitual residence as a result of such events, is unable or, owing
to such fear, is unwilling to return to it. See Convention, art. I(A); Protocol, art.
1(2).
2. Pitterman, International Responses to Refugee Situations: The United Nations High
Commissionerfor Refugees, in REFUGEES AND WORLD POLITIcs 44 (E. Ferris ed. 1985).
3. Scheinman, Refugees: Goodbye to the Good Old Days, 467 THE ANNALS 78, 79-
80 (May 1983).](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.journals/colhr19&div=15&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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