TOPIC: Refugee status and rights of wives and children of isis fighters
For the past few decades, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), has caused terror worldwide, claiming responsibility for hundreds of extremist attacks around the world. At the same time, an endless stream of disheveled and disoriented women and children are pouring out of the backs of trucks at the al-Hol refugee camp in Hasakeh province in northeastern Syria. While most of them are wives and children of the ISIS fighters, determining their refugee status will be a relatively complicated problem. SOCHUM must face the two-fold objective of ensuring and protecting the human rights of those wives and children regarding their identity associated with ISIS and from states that prohibit any support for those “predestined” refugees.
Chair: Minal Mirza
Dais: Sean Lin and Elizabeth Ngai
Dais: Sean Lin and Elizabeth Ngai