ABSTRACT
There are few, if any, ways in which a country can more directly influence the human rights protections of foreign nationals than through the asylum process. Article 14 of the UDHR provides: “Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.” However, no country is obligated to provide protection to refugees. Instead, states are only obligated not to send a person back to a country where his life or well-being might be threatened.
