1550070551791_abstract Saarc

REFUGEE LAW IN SAARC NATIONS: A NEW APPROACH ON LAW AND MORALITY

ABSTRACT While hosting more than three million refugees SAARC not only continues to ignore compliance with international legal instruments but also doesn’t have any national framework for managing refugees. The lack of national policies is being compensated through vague and changing morality based on humanitarian grounds. This paper attempts to analyze the historical trends while accepting refugees by the SAARC nations on the outline of morality. With its own logics and unique practices, South Asia continues to be a generous region in relation to refugees – a trend which has recently changed. It is in this conspectus, the instant research critically and cumulatively tries to examine protection and its thresholds afforded to climate refugees along with conventional refugees under international legal standards and state practices of the SAARC nations. This paper attempts to figure out the need for a concrete law for regional cooperation in SAARC to replace the changing morality which differs from case to case. The researcher in this paper attempts to study the relationship that exists between law and morality with reference to REFUGEE CRISIS in SAARC countries. The Researcher has followed doctrinal methodology for undertaking this research, and has collected the materials from various books, articles and websites. KEY WORDS: Law, Morality, Refugee, SAARC Nations, Climate change, Climate refugee, International morality & Soft law.