Neighboring countries legal obligations towards Syrian asylum seekers during the Syrian Uprising

During this brainstorming session, Hiba discussed her research proposal on Neighboring countries legal obligations towards Syrian asylum seekers during the Syrian Uprising. As she illustrated that Syrians are being displaced to neighboring countries, namely: Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq in order to save their lives and attain the protection of these countries. Yet the governments of these neighboring countries consider that providing protection to these Syrian asylum seekers as essential humanitarian needs and as grants from states, rather than obligations enshrined under international refugee law and human rights law; which deprived refugees from gaining minimum rights such as legal protection that is provided through the implementation of customary law; including the principle non-refoulement.