Dr Nafees Ahmad
Dr. Nafees Ahmad is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Legal Studies, South Asian University (SAU), New Delhi. He holds a doctorate in International Refugee Law and Human Rights. His area of scholarship focuses on refugees, migrants, the role of artificial intelligence in refugee protection, international politics of asylum, migration, global forced displacement, global migration governance, and climate refugees in South Asia. He also addresses climate change-driven human displacement, refugee policy, invisible frames of asylum, disconnects of durable solutions and SAARC connects and contexts of refugee protection. He conceived and introduced a new Program in 2011 at the FLS-SAU called Comparative Constitutional Law of SAARC Nations for LLM along with international human rights and international refugee law. His publications include papers in the Asia-Pacific Journal of Human Rights and Law (Brill), Kings’ Student Law Review (King’s College London), Groningen Journal of International Law (University of Groningen-The Netherlands), Harvard International Law Journal ISIL Year Book on International Humanitarian Law and Refugee Law, and ELCOP Year Book of Human Rights-Dhaka and NUJS International Journal of Legal Studies and Research (IJLSR), etc. Dr. Ahmad has co-authored a book on Climate Refugees in South Asia published by Springer https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811331367. His book on International Refugee Law and Human Rights is in press. Dr. Ahmad is also an active blogger, writer, poet, and Op-Ed contributor to many international sites in the fields of forced migration, refugee research, human rights, international relations, diplomacy, etc. Dr. Ahmad has been a Resource Person and External Reviewer for the Ministry of Law, Government of India-sponsored Research Project on Judicial Reforms since June 2016 at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kashipur. Further, he has been a visiting professor at the Indian Society of International Law (ISIL), Jamia Milia Islamia-New Delhi, and Judicial Academies of various states of India for Sensitization Programmes on Justicing, Balancing Rules, and the Principles on Gender Justice in the Context of Personal Laws in India. He serves on many committees and editorial boards of many international journals and magazines. Dr. Ahmad has been serving since 2010 as Senior Visiting Faculty to World Learning (WL)-India under the India-Health and Human Rights Program organized by the World Learning, 1 Kipling Road, Brattleboro VT-05302, USA for Fall & Spring Semesters Batches of US Students by its School for International Training (SIT Study Abroad) in New Delhi-INDIA. Dr. Ahmad has also been addressing the Armed Forces establishments’ sensitization programs on international human rights law and international humanitarian law. He is available #24X7 at drnafeesahmad@sau.ac.in
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Ph.D. (International Refugee Law & Human Rights)
LL.M. (International Law & Human Rights)
LL.B. (H) [English Common Law]
B.A. (H) [Anglo-American English Literature]
224, II Floor, Akbar Bhawan, Faculty of Legal Studies,
South Asian University, Satya Marg, Chanakyapuri,
New Delhi-110021 INDIA
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1791-3060
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811331367
http://www.sau.int/faculty/faculty-profile.html?staff_id=33
# +91 8130326250 (Work)
Phone: +91 8130326250
Address: Dr. Nafees Ahmad
Ph.D. (International Refugee Law & Human Rights)
LL.M. (International Law & Human Rights)
LL.B. (H) [English Common Law]
B.A. (H) [Anglo-American English Literature]
224, II Floor, Akbar Bhawan, Faculty of Legal Studies,
South Asian University, Satya Marg, Chanakyapuri,
New Delhi-110021 INDIA
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1791-3060
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811331367
http://www.sau.int/faculty/faculty-profile.html?staff_id=33
# +91 8130326250 (Work)
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addressing the gender, human rights and the rule of law dimensions in
environmental governance. Thus, the role of the civil society in
strengthening environmental governance, fostering human rights and
contributing in sensitizing people, disseminating about the environment, and maintaining ecosystems in India has become more critical than ever before. This paper deals with the role played by the civil society organizations in the post-colonial context in the area of environmental governance and justice.
systems since the adoption of an international legal framework secured as the 1951 UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (UNCSR) that has been developed to provide refugees some protection which is now debated to address all their grievances including the refugee status determination (RSD) in every nook and corner of the world. RSD is the process whereunder states and UNHCR determine who are entitled to have the benefits of refugee protection. The RSD process facilitates the accomplishment of their global human rights obligations to the beneficiaries under the international refugee protection regime. It is a platitude of international refugee law (IRL) that RSD does not bestow status on a refugee but merely validates it. In performing the RSD obligations, it is the treatment that is meted out to refugees and outsiders in our midst within the UNCSR refugee definition. The instant research paper addresses the issues of critical spaces in the RSD system based on the grounds envisaged in the refugee definition that poses challenges, risks, and responses for a cosmopolitan purpose. There is also a sovereignty narrative that has made the human rights subservient and the menace of persecution is being ignored within the synthesis of International Human Rights Law (IHRL), International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and International Refugee Law (IRL). However, there is also a pressing question of a legal framework for the protection of refugees frontier justice for them globally that address every aspect of the refugee problem from registration and determination of status, to repatriation, resettlement and legal and political protection reassessment, interpretation, responses, risks, and challenges worldwide.
CoM has pandered to many human catastrophes sans accomplishing the fundamental principles of IRL. It is, indeed, a well-established fact of international law that states are legitimate in controlling, securing and administrating their national borders while refusing the entry of people or individuals arriving from foreign lands. However, there are international instruments, agreements, and understandings where under rights of migrants, immigrants, refugees, asylum-seekers are protected on a binding basis. These international arrangements envisage non-discriminatory and rights-based procedures to seek asylum in another country. But, unfortunately, some migrants cannot claim refugee status even if they are involuntarily repatriated, deported or expelled to their homelands of persecution and economic calamities. On many occasions, a number of migrants live in the country of refuge for a long time and secretly earn their livelihood in the host countries. These migrants have their children in schools but they could not get themselves regularized in the host country and destined to live under clandestine conditions with the fear of being apprehended and deported by the law enforcement agencies.
addressing the gender, human rights and the rule of law dimensions in
environmental governance. Thus, the role of the civil society in
strengthening environmental governance, fostering human rights and
contributing in sensitizing people, disseminating about the environment, and maintaining ecosystems in India has become more critical than ever before. This paper deals with the role played by the civil society organizations in the post-colonial context in the area of environmental governance and justice.
systems since the adoption of an international legal framework secured as the 1951 UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (UNCSR) that has been developed to provide refugees some protection which is now debated to address all their grievances including the refugee status determination (RSD) in every nook and corner of the world. RSD is the process whereunder states and UNHCR determine who are entitled to have the benefits of refugee protection. The RSD process facilitates the accomplishment of their global human rights obligations to the beneficiaries under the international refugee protection regime. It is a platitude of international refugee law (IRL) that RSD does not bestow status on a refugee but merely validates it. In performing the RSD obligations, it is the treatment that is meted out to refugees and outsiders in our midst within the UNCSR refugee definition. The instant research paper addresses the issues of critical spaces in the RSD system based on the grounds envisaged in the refugee definition that poses challenges, risks, and responses for a cosmopolitan purpose. There is also a sovereignty narrative that has made the human rights subservient and the menace of persecution is being ignored within the synthesis of International Human Rights Law (IHRL), International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and International Refugee Law (IRL). However, there is also a pressing question of a legal framework for the protection of refugees frontier justice for them globally that address every aspect of the refugee problem from registration and determination of status, to repatriation, resettlement and legal and political protection reassessment, interpretation, responses, risks, and challenges worldwide.
CoM has pandered to many human catastrophes sans accomplishing the fundamental principles of IRL. It is, indeed, a well-established fact of international law that states are legitimate in controlling, securing and administrating their national borders while refusing the entry of people or individuals arriving from foreign lands. However, there are international instruments, agreements, and understandings where under rights of migrants, immigrants, refugees, asylum-seekers are protected on a binding basis. These international arrangements envisage non-discriminatory and rights-based procedures to seek asylum in another country. But, unfortunately, some migrants cannot claim refugee status even if they are involuntarily repatriated, deported or expelled to their homelands of persecution and economic calamities. On many occasions, a number of migrants live in the country of refuge for a long time and secretly earn their livelihood in the host countries. These migrants have their children in schools but they could not get themselves regularized in the host country and destined to live under clandestine conditions with the fear of being apprehended and deported by the law enforcement agencies.