International Migration Law IML

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International Migration Law IML
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Objectives

• Overview of international public law
• Introduction to International Migration Law (IML)
  
• Branches of International Public Law,
  particularly those applicable to IML
• Sources and components of IML
• Instruments of IML

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International Law

• Distinction between public and private
  international law
• Governs legal relations between States- Public
  International Law
• Governs legal relations between other subjects of
  international law- Private International Law

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Sources of International law

• Treaties
• International Customary Law
• Judicial Decisions and Doctrine
• General Principles of Law

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Branches of International Law

•        Air Law and Space Law
•        Law of the Sea
•        International Environmental Law
•        International Criminal Law
•        The Law of Armed Conflict (Humanitarian
  Law)
•        Refugee Law
•        Human Rights Law
•        International Trade Law
•        Intellectual Property Law
• Others

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International Migration Law

• WHAT IS IT?

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What is International Migration Law?

• Instruments of international law applicable to
  migration (IOM Glossary)
• No worldwide legislature
• Has developed over time
• Compiled from branches of international law
  applied to migration issues
• Different instruments apply depending upon
  context
• Distinction between nationals and aliens

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Components of IML

• Rights and obligations of persons involved in
  migration

• Competences and responsibilities of States

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Main Sources of International Migration Law

• Human Rights Law
• Migrant Workers Law
• Humanitarian Law
• Refugee Law
• Nationality Law
• Law of the Sea
• Criminal Law

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Instruments of International Migration Law

• Human Rights
• UDHR
• ICCPR
• ICESCR
• CRC
• ICERD
• CEDAW
• CAT
• ICMW

• Criminal Law
• Convention Against Translational Crime
• Palermo Protocols

• Migrant Workers Law
• ILO Instruments
• ICMW

• Humanitarian Law
• Geneva Conventions

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Instruments of International Migration Law

• Law of the Sea
• Convention on the Law of the Sea
• FAL Convention
• International Convention for the Safety of Life
  at Sea

• Nationality Law
• Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness
• Convention relating to the Status of Stateless
  Persons

• Refugee Law
• 1951 Convention
• 1967 Protocol