Protection of Non-citizens in a world of hostility

1. Protection of Non-citizens in a world of hostility Bryan Park 박상현

3. Asylum seeker – a person who flees their home country and applies for asylum (i.e. the right to international protection) in another country. May be a refugee, a displaced person, but not an economic migrant • Refugee – a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster • Immigrant – a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country • Migrant – a person who moves from one place to another, especially in order to find work or better living conditions

4. Key International Treaties • Article 14 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights • Recognises the right of persons to seek asylum from persecution in other countries • The 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees • Defines who a refugee is • Sets out the rights of individuals who are granted asylum and the responsibilities of nations that grant asylum • Restricted refugee status to those whose circumstances had come about “as a result of events occurring before 1 January 1951” • Gave states the option of interpreting this as “events occurring in Europe” or “events occurring in Europe or elsewhere” • The 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees • Removed both temporal and geographic restrictions in the 1951 Convention, which was required in the historical context of refugee flows resulting from decolonisation

5. Parties to the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol Parties to only the 1967 Protocol Parties to only the 1951 Convention

6. How can corporates help?

7. UPS • In 2017, the UPS Foundation donated $16 million in funding, in-kind, and technical support for pre-eminent humanitarian organisations to support preparedness, response, and recovery programmes • 546 humanitarian relief shipments across 53 countries

8. IKEA • IKEA Foundation, through its Brighter Lives for Refugees campaign, funded a solar farm to power Azraq refugee camp in Jordan (which houses nearly 36,000 Syrian refugees) • Donated $100 million to improve living standards and foster self-reliance among 200,000 Somali refugees and locals in the remote Dollo Ado region of southeast Ethiopia – money used to build irrigation systems, train farmers, provide small business loans, and create sustainable energy solutions

9. Lyft • In January 2017, Trump signed an executive order suspending the resettlement of Syrian refugees, pausing the overall refugee resettlement programme, and temporarily barred citizens of seven majority-Muslim nations from entering the United States • Lyft pledged $1 million to the American Civil Liberties Union to help them in their legal challenege against the executive order

10. Airbnb • Through its Belong Anywhere campaign, it raised more than $1 million and matched $800,000 in a grant to UNHCR, with $1.6 million used in buying aids for refugees and $200,000 in travel credits going to non-profit organisations supporting refugees around the world

11. Starbucks • Made a commitment to hire 10,000 refugees by 2022, including 2,500 refugees in Western Europe and 1,000 refugees in Canada • Has also joined the UNHCR’s #WithRefugees campaign and the Tent Partnership for Refugees • Partnering with key refugee settlement agencies and non-governmental organisations, including the International Rescue Committee, UNHCR – the UN Refugee Agency, Hire Immigrants, and No One Left Behind

12. How can you and your business help? • Donation • Offer jobs • Be an advocate for refugees • Develop goods and services that refugees need • Exchange ideas and know-how with non-profit organisations that serve refugees • Put money into funds that invest in refugees • Kois Invest aims to raise $30 million to fund six organisations providing employment and entrepreneurship support to Syrian refugees and vulnerable local populations in Jordan, Turkey, and Lebanon • Social investment is already funding the No Recourse to Public Funds Project in the UK, which gives free housing to in-need refugees and migrants, and the Immigrant Access Fund in Canada, which provides loans to migrants and refugees to cover their education • Engage in smart philanthropy – visionary philanthropy can have a transformative impact on entire communities • Be a role model for other businesses

13. Bryan Park Profile Bryan specialises in corporate transactions and corporate governance, with a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions, cross-border transactions, public and private capital raisings, corporate finance and joint ventures. He advises businesses and individuals across a broad range of sectors and covers the technology sector as well as financial regulation. In particular, he focuses on advising international clients on the English law aspects of corporate transactions. Bryan is an English qualified solicitor and a foreign legal consultant registered in California. Areas of expertise Corporate, Financial services regulation, Technology • Recent work highlights • Advising Road King, a company based in Hong Kong, on its multi-million investment in a UK mixed reality company, working closely with a leading Hong Kong law firm. • Advising StorCentric Inc on the English law aspects of its acquisition of Nexsan, a global leader in enterprise storage solutions. • Representing Wadhawan Global Capital on its £33 million investment in UK peer-to-peer lender Zopa. • Acting for the shareholders of Criterion Adjusters Limited on its sale to international loss adjusting firm Charles Taylor plc for a maximum consideration of £13.1 million. • Advising Rayner Group, the UK’s only manufacturer of intraocular lenses, on its acquisition of Moorfields Pharmaceuticals from the Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Bryan Park Associate San Francisco/London+1 415 608 5359 (US) +44 7733 23 25 22 (UK) Bryan.Park@penningtonslaw.com