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Article: Problems of Protection: the UNHCR, Refugees and Human Rights.(Book Review)
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Problems of Protection: The UNHCR, Refugees and Human Rights
Niklaus Steiner, Mark Gibney and Gil Loescher, Editors New York and London: Routledge, 2003
Fiftieth anniversaries are traditionally celebrated with gifts of gold. However, in the case of the UNHCR and the 1951 Convention, the gift of choice appears to be paper: pages and pages of paper filled with opinions on the past, present and future of refugee protection. One of the most recent gifts of this sort, Problems of Protection: The UNHCR, Refugees and Human Rights, edited by Niklaus Steiner, Mark Gibney, and Gil Loescher, attempts to offer a critical assessment of the past half-century of ...