Impacts of the interpretative interaction between international human rights law and the Refugee Convention

Abstract

The article addresses the issue of interpretative interaction between international human rights law (IHRL) and the Refugee Convention against the background of an ongoing academic debate on the primacy or complementarity of the protection granted to refugees through IHRL. Specifically, it highlights the multifarious ways in which decision-makers and academics have sought interpretative guidance from IHRL in order to interpret the provisions of the Refugee Convention and vice versa. Moreover, it identifies the interpretative patterns to which this guidance has led. Ultimately, the article contributes to the debate through the identification of the impacts of interpretative interaction between IHRL and the Refugee Convention on the question of protection of refugees.