The Best Interests of the Child Principle as an Independent Source of International Protection

Jason M. Pobjoy

10/2015

This article examines the extent to which the best interest principle may provide an independent source of international protection. That protection may, for instance, proscribe the removal of a child from a host State notwithstanding that the child is ineligible for protection as a refugee or protection under the more traditional non-refoulement obligations in international human rights law.