Barbara Harrell-Bond

Barbara Harrell-Bond was founder/director of the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. She now directs the Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid Programme. Her books include Imposing Aid:Emergency Assistance to Refugees

Guillaume Cliche-Rivard is a graduate in International Law and International Relations at the Quebec University in Montreal (UQAM. He will spend the next six months in Uganda providing legal aid to Rwandans who continue to fear persecution in Rwanda.

Rwandan refugees face no choice but repatriation

The UNHCR admits that that refugees fleeing Rwanda after 1998 still may have a well-founded fear of persecution, so what lies behind its decision to invoke the Cessation Clause?

By Barbara Harrell-Bond

/ 10 May 2012