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None of the international human rights treaties contain a human right to asylum. Only the UDHR (Article 14) mentions the right “to seek and to enjoy” asylum. This is meant as the right to apply for protection, but not as a right to be protected.
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Tiedemann, P. (2020). Right to Asylum. In: Philosophical Foundation of Human Rights. Springer Textbooks in Law. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42262-2_16
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