Itty Abraham

Itty Abraham is head of the Department of Southeast Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore. He is working on a critical and postcolonial history of refugees and forced displacement.

Symposium
70 Years of UNHCR and Refugee Convention

Making the Convention “Universal”: Other Views of the Additional Protocol

This blogpost complicates the received wisdom on the origins of the Additional Protocol of 1967. Following B.S. Chimni, I argue that the need for the Protocol was heightened by the...