The right to leave and return in international law and practice / / Hurst Hannum.

• Superior document: International Studies in Human Rights ; 8
• VerfasserIn: Hannum, Hurst,
• Place / Publishing House: Dordrecht, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Martinus Nijhoff,, [1987]; ©1987
• Year of Publication: 1987
• Language: English
• Series: International Studies in Human Rights ; 8.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- PART ONE: INTRODUCTION -- International Formulation of the Right -- PART TWO: CONTEMPORARY LEGAL CONTENT -- General Principles of Interpretation -- Article 12 of the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights -- 'provided by law' -- 'necessary' -- 'national security' -- 'public order (ordre public)' -- 1. The State or collectivity as ultimate guarantor and benificiary of rights -- 2. Limitations on the right to leave based on economic considerations, including the 'brain drain' -- 3. Migration and population policies -- 'public health or morals' -- 'rights and freedoms of others' -- 'consistent with the other rights recognized in the present Covenant' -- 'arbitrarily' -- The Evolving Jurisprudence of the Right to Leave and Return -- The Right to Emigrate -- Refugee Issues and the Right to Seek Asylum -- The Right to Travel -- The Right to Return to One's Country -- 1. 'one's own country' -- 2. Citizenship -- 3. Exile and Expulsion -- Refugee Issues and the Right to Repatriation -- PART THREE: STATE PRACTICE -- General Observations -- Asia and the Pacific -- Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the U.S.A. -- Latin America and the Caribbean -- Western Europe -- Eastern Europe and the U.S.S.R. -- Middle East and North Africa -- Africa -- PART FOUR: CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- APPENDICES -- APPENDIX A. Country reports under Article 40 of the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which refer to rights guaranteed under Article 12 of the Covenant -- APPENDIX B. National constitutional provisions guaranteeing the right to leave and/or return -- APPENDIX C. Draft Principles on Freedom and Non-Discrimination in respect of the Right of Everyone to Leave Any Country, including His Own, and to Return to His Country, by Judge Jose Ingles, Special Rapporteur, 1963.

APPENDIX D. Draft Principles on Freedom and Non-Discrimination in respect of the Right of Everyone to Leave Any Country, including His Own, and to Return to His Country, as amended by the UN Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, 1963 -- APPENDIX E. Declaration on the Right to Leave and the Right to Return, adopted by the Uppsala Colloquium, 1972 -- APPENDIX F. Strasbourg Declaration on the Right to Leave and Return adopted by the Meeting of Experts in Strasbourg, 1986 -- NOTES -- INDEX.