non-refoulement

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌnɒnɹəˈfuːlmɒ̃/
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• General-American: /ˌnɑnɹəˌfulˈmɑn/
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From non- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + refoulement. Refoulement is borrowed from French refoulement (“act of pushing something back (as gunpowder into a gun barrel, or water by a dam); act of water overflowing; forced relocation of a group of people; forced repatriation of asylum-seekers or refugees”), from refouler (“to cause to flow or turn back; to repress, suppress; to repulse; to trample on again”) (from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) + fouler (“to impress, stamp; to trample, walk on; to mistreat, oppress”) (ultimately from Medieval Latin fullare (“to make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing, to full”), from Latin fullō (“one who fulls cloth, fuller”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bhleh3- (“to blow; to inflate, swell”)) + -ment (suffix forming nouns from verbs, usually denoting resulting actions or states).

19 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: عدم الإعادة القسرية — principle that a person should not be returned to an area where they would face mistreatment
• Dutch: non-refoulement — principle that a person should not be returned to an area where they would face mistreatment
• Esperanto: ne-transŝovado — principle that a person should not be returned to an area where they would face mistreatment
• Finnish: palautuskielto — principle that a person should not be returned to an area where they would face mistreatment
• German: Non-refoulement-Gebot — principle that a person should not be returned to an area where they would face mistreatment
• German: Grundsatz der Nichtzurückweisung — principle that a person should not be returned to an area where they would face mistreatment
• German: Nichtzurückweisungsprinzip — principle that a person should not be returned to an area where they would face mistreatment
• German: Refoulement-Verbot — principle that a person should not be returned to an area where they would face mistreatment
• German: Nicht-Zurückweisung — principle that a person should not be returned to an area where they would face mistreatment
• German: Nicht-Abschiebung — principle that a person should not be returned to an area where they would face mistreatment
• Hebrew: עקרון האי־החזרה — principle that a person should not be returned to an area where they would face mistreatment
• Italian: principio di non-respingimento — principle that a person should not be returned to an area where they would face mistreatment
• Japanese: ノン・ルフールマン原則 — principle that a person should not be returned to an area where they would face mistreatment
• Persian: نان رفولمان — principle that a person should not be returned to an area where they would face mistreatment
• Polish: zasada non-refoulement — principle that a person should not be returned to an area where they would face mistreatment
• Spanish: principio de no devolución — principle that a person should not be returned to an area where they would face mistreatment
• Swedish: principen om non-refoulement — principle that a person should not be returned to an area where they would face mistreatment
• Turkish: geri gönderme yasağı — principle that a person should not be returned to an area where they would face mistreatment
• Vietnamese: luật không gửi trả — principle that a person should not be returned to an area where they would face mistreatment