@RD4Anarchy @JapanProf the possibility that you're missing is that they are granted by rough global consensus – that is, that the authority is some reasonably large subset of "all of us".
I think that, in the aftermath of WWII, when the #RefugeeConvention and the concepts of #Genocide and #WarCrimes were fully established, there was globally a very widespread understanding that we could any of us, through no fault of our own, become a #Refugee or victim of a war crime...
EU member states halt Syrian asylum applications following Assad regime fall https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/eu-member-states-halt-syrian-asylum-applications-following-assad-regime-fall/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #asylumapplications #RefugeeConvention #Refugeestatussyrians
What a vicious woman.
If she had her way, she'd get rid of both the Refugee Convention & the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
But most likely the public will get rid of her well before that.
Being gay or a woman isn't reason enough to claim asylum, says Suella Braverman https://news.sky.com/story/home-secretary-suella-braverman-to-question-if-refugee-convention-is-fit-for-our-modern-age-in-us-think-tank-speech-12970029
