Right of return

De right of return be a principle insyd international law wich dey guarantee everyone ein right of return to, anaa re-entry to, dema country of citizenship. De right of return be part of de broader human rights concept of freedom of movement wey e sanso relate to de legal concept of nationality. While chaw states dey afford dema citizens de right of abode, de right of return no be restricted to citizenship anaa nationality insyd de formal sense. E dey allow stateless persons den for those dem born outsyd dema country to return for de first time, so long as dem maintain a "genuine den effective link".

De right be formulated insyd chaw modern treaties den conventions, most notably insyd de 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, de 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights den de 1948 Fourth Geneva Convention. Na legal scholars argue say na one anaa more of dese international human rights instruments attain de status of customary international law wey dat de right of return therefore dey bind on non-signatories to dese conventions.

De right of return often be invoked by representatives of refugee groups make dem assert say dem get a right to return to de country from wich na dem be displaced.

 History 
De right to leave any country den to return to one ein own country be regarded as human rights wey na e be founded on natural law.J.D. Inglés (1963), Study of Discrimination in Respect of the Right of Everyone to Leave any Country, Including His Own, and to Return to His Country, Geneva, UN, UN Sales no. 64.XIV.2, UN Doc E/CN.4/Sub.2/220/Rev.1

 Countries plus laws wey dey confer a right of return 

 Abkhazia (self-declared) 

 Armenia 

 Austria 

 Finland 

 France 

 Germany 

 Ghana 

Ghana dey allow people plus African ancestry make dem apply for den be granted de right to stay insyd Ghana indefinitely, known as de Right of Abode.

 Greece 

 Hungary 

 Ireland 

 Israel 

 Latvia 

 Poland 

 Portugal 

 Romania 

 Russia 

 Spain 

 United States of America 

 References 

 External links 
 Wall Street Journal, War Echo: Ousted by Poland in 1945, Germans Want Homes Back, August 11, 2004
 Let Them Return – The Chagos People's Homeland Campaign Archived 2011-07-13 at the Wayback Machine
 Law of Return, 1950—Government of the State of Israel
 The Right of Return in International Law by Eyal Benvenisti
 The problem is how to become Israeli – Amon Rubenstein, Ha'aretz
 Do Palestinian Refugees Have a Right to Return to Israel? by Ruth Lapidoth
 International Law and the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Julius Stone
 The Feasibility of the Right of Return by Salman Abu-Sittah
 Palestinian Refugees and the Right of Return: An International Law Analysis by Gail J. Boling
 The Palestinian Refugees and the non-existence of the Right of Return, Ben-Dror Yemini

Category:Freedom of movement
Category:Human rights
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