Our children or their children? The obligation to protect unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.
The right to seek asylum, as protected in inter alia the Refugee Convention, does not provide a right to obtain asylum, however, it obliges the states to protect asylum-seekers against being returned to the frontiers of a territory where his or her life or freedom will be threatened. The current prohibition is known as the principle of non-refoulement and constitutes, according to the Swedish Alie