{"id":1018511,"date":"2023-03-08T18:30:47","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T18:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/mar\/08\/the-guardian-view-on-refugee-rights-a-warning-from-history"},"modified":"2023-03-08T18:30:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T18:30:47","slug":"the-guardian-view-on-refugee-rights-a-warning-from-history-editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/03\/08\/the-guardian-view-on-refugee-rights-a-warning-from-history-editorial\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian view on refugee rights: a warning from history | Editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rishi Sunak\u2019s pretence of serious statecraft is belied by his embrace of shabby populism when it comes to immigration law<\/p><p>Britain did not sign up to the 1951 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/mar\/07\/suella-braverman-asylum-migration-bill-law-change-small-boats\" title=\"\">United Nations refugee convention<\/a> by accident, nor was the country bamboozled into the European convention on human rights and cooperation with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/european-court-of-human-rights\" title=\"\">Strasbourg court<\/a> that enforces the convention. It was an architect of those institutions.<\/p><p>The ambition was to lay solid foundations of European cooperation for the establishment of a peaceful democratic order after the second world war. Winston Churchill was a leading <a href=\"https:\/\/winstonchurchill.org\/resources\/speeches\/1946-1963-elder-statesman\/united-states-of-europe\/\" title=\"\">advocate of that project<\/a>.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/mar\/08\/the-guardian-view-on-refugee-rights-a-warning-from-history\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/mar\/08\/the-guardian-view-on-refugee-rights-a-warning-from-history\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rishi Sunak\u2019s pretence of serious statecraft is belied by his embrace of shabby populism when it comes to immigration lawBritain did not sign up to the 1951 United Nations refugee convention by accident, nor was the country bamboozled into the European&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2944,6,640,242,14,238,6964,44425,1314,111,20475,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018512,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018511\/revisions\/1018512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}