43. Tragically, refugees who left their country because their human rights were forfeited are often subjected to equally
harsh treatment in countries of asylum and even forcibly
returned. As Stephen Young of Harvard Law School states:
"The international law on human rights does not bear on
on the
most important opportunity for a refugee or stateless person obtaining access to a land of refuge. Human rights law speaks
to the treatment of people within a jurisdiction, not to their
ease of entry. The drafters of the Universal Declaration consciously refused to adopt asylum as a universal human right when such a right had been proposed." 2/
2/ Young, op. cit.