Today, half a century after 1951 Geneva Convention declaration, which defined an asylum-seeker as a person who had “well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion,” the world no longer finds itself in the same circumstances. Whereas, up until now, we spoke of political, religious or ethnic refugees, currently there is the need to speak of new refugees: victims of persecution due to gender or sexual orientation, people who have become refugees due to environmental reasons, or people who have become displaced persons within the borders of their own State, which, through action or omission, does not guarantee their protection. In this monograph, the authors point out the dysfunctions between the instruments of international protection and reality, through reflections on the new situations and realities of those who need protection to guarantee their right to life and their right to live in safety in their own territory.

Luís Barranco, member of Amnesty International’s Sexual Minorities Network; Pablo Antonio Fernández, Professor of Public International Law and International Relations, University of Huelva; Cristina J. Gortázar, Jean Monnet Professor. Lecturer, Pontifical University of Comillas; Antoni Lluch, refugee specialist; Antoni Salamanca, Vice President of the Catalan Federation of Human Rights NGO’s and member of the Barcelona Council for the Environment and Sustainability; and Mauricio Valiente, Coordinator of the Legal Services of the Spanish Committee for Refugee Aid (CEAR).

ISSN: 1132-6107

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