Search results for: “permanent residence”

  • Permanent Mission to the Un

    Bank Accounts and Premises of Permanent Mission to the United Nations in 2011 United States views on international law (based on the document "Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law"): In August of 2011, the United States filed a statement of interest in a case against the […]

  • Refugee

    Who Becomes a Refugee? Introduction to Refugee People leave their home countries for many reasons. Sometimes they are fleeing poverty, or they hope to find a better life in another place. People who migrate for economic reasons, however, are not considered refugees. Yet economic migrants […]

  • Refugee

    Who Becomes a Refugee? Introduction to Refugee People leave their home countries for many reasons. Sometimes they are fleeing poverty, or they hope to find a better life in another place. People who migrate for economic reasons, however, are not considered refugees. Yet economic migrants […]

  • Domicile

    Introduction to Domicile Domicile, in law, legal residence of a person. Although generally understood as synonymous with home or place of abode, in the strict legal sense the term domicile denotes the place that the law will hold to be a person's residence. This may or may not be the place […]

  • Victim Temporary Protection

    Victim Temporary protection and the Refugee Issues As published by the UNHCR in relation to Victim Temporary protection: One of the primary issues posed by temporary visa schemes in affording protection to victims of trafficking is the obligation to cooperate with law enforcement. The […]

  • Alternative Legal Frameworks

    Alternative legal frameworks and the Refugee Issues As published by the UNHCR in relation to Alternative legal frameworks: There are various options with respect to the protection and recognition of rights of trafficking victims in addition to grants of asylum. A system of temporary or […]

  • Constitutional Text: Brazil Constitution of 1988

    Constitutional Text: Brazil Constitution of 1988 CONSTITUTION OF THE FEDERATIVE REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL OCTOBER 5, 1988 Preamble We, the representatives of the Brazilian People, convened in the National Constituent Assembly to institute a democratic state for the purpose of ensuring the exercise of social and individual rights, liberty, security, well-being, development, equality and justice as…

  • Geneva Convention (I) 7

    Geneva Convention (I)   Art. 63. Each of the High Contracting Parties shall be at liberty to denounce the present Convention. The denunciation shall be notified in writing to the Swiss Federal Council, which shall transmit it to the Governments of all the High Contracting Parties. The denunciation shall take effect one year after the…

  • Convention for the Supression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Civil Aviation

    Convention for the Supression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Civil Aviation   Article 1 1. Any person commits an offence if he unlawfully and intentionally: (a) performs an act of violence against a person on board an aircraft in flight if that act is likely to endanger the safety of that aircraft; or…

  • Outline of Subject Matter Jursidiction

    Outline of Subject Matter Jursidiction What is Subject Matter Jursidiction? · State courts are courts of general jurisdiction, empowered to hear just about every type of civil case. That is significantly different from federal courts, which are courts of limited Subject Matter Jurisdiction (result of the Madisonian Compromise). · Very little of the business of…

  • Migration

    Migration Definition Migration may be defined as the movement of people, especially of whole groups, from one place, region, or country to another, particularly with the intention of making permanent settlement in a new location. See more definitions about migration in the law dictionary. […]

  • Migration

    Migration Definition Migration may be defined as the movement of people, especially of whole groups, from one place, region, or country to another, particularly with the intention of making permanent settlement in a new location. See more definitions about migration in the law dictionary. […]

  • Immigration

    Introduction to Immigration Immigration, the movement of people into another nation with the intention of residing there permanently. The contrasting term emigration refers to the movement of people permanently leaving a nation. Immigration is a worldwide phenomenon. From the 17th century to […]

  • Immigration

    Introduction to Immigration Immigration, the movement of people into another nation with the intention of residing there permanently. The contrasting term emigration refers to the movement of people permanently leaving a nation. Immigration is a worldwide phenomenon. From the 17th century to […]

  • Education

    "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." — Alvin Toffler See Education links History of Education In the following treatment of this subject, the theory and early history of education is […]