Responsibility of the first world nations to protect refugees: non-refoulement as an obligation erga omnes

The Global North’s approach to addressing the European refugee crisis raises troubling questions about their self-professed democratic standards. Europe, North America, and Australia’s responses to the refugee crisis are discriminatory: cemented on disguised racism, their response reflects their ostensible “comfort” with the idea of an inclusive, multi-religious, and multi-racial-democracy.