Canada

• Case Law 90

• Abduction 1
• Acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations 2
• Appeal / Right to appeal 4
• Armed forces / Military 3
• Asylum policy 2
• Asylum-seekers 2
• Burden of proof 9
• Cessation clauses 1
• Changes of circumstances in home country 5
• Children's rights 3
• Children-at-risk 4
• Combatants / Former combatants 1
• Complementary forms of protection 13
• Convention refugee 15
• Country of origin information (COI) 2
• Credibility assessment 9
• Crimes against humanity 5
• Criminal justice 14
• Cumulative grounds of persecution 2
• Death penalty 1
• Deportation / Forcible return 28
• Domestic violence 2
• Drug trafficking 4
• Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 15
• Exclusion clauses 13
• Exhaustion of domestic remedies 2
• Expulsion 4
• Family reunification 2
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 10
• Freedom of assembly and association 1
• Freedom of expression 1
• Freedom of religion 1
• Grounds for persecution 3
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 1
• Immigration Detention 4
• Independence of judiciary 6
• Internal armed conflict 1
• International armed conflict 3
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 2
• Karen 2
• Kurd 2
• Legal representation / Legal aid 6
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 2
• Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims 1
• Military law 2
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 10
• Multiple nationality 4
• Non-refoulement 6
• Non-state agents of persecution 4
• Persecution based on nationality 2
• Persecution based on political opinion 13
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 2
• Police 2
• Prosecution vs persecution 8
• Public health 2
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 10
• Refoulement 2
• Rejected asylum-seekers 5
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 2
• Resettlement 2
• Residence permits / Residency 2
• Right to education 2
• Right to employment 2
• Right to justice 4
• Right to liberty and security 6
• Right to life 8
• Roma 4
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 6
• Russians 2
• Rwandans 2
• Safe third country 10
• Serious non-political crime 7
• Shia 1
• Single procedure 2
• Social group discrimination 2
• Social group persecution 7
• Standard of proof 5
• State protection 9
• Stateless persons 2
• Statelessness 2
• Tamil 10
• Terrorism 6
• Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 4
• Tutsis 2
• Visas 2
• Well-founded fear of persecution 4

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• AlertNet - Canada
• Amnesty International - Canada
• CERIS - The Ontario Metropolis Centre
• Canadian Council for Refugees
• Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
• Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network - Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
• Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW)
• Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW)
• Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
• Citizenship and Immigration Canada
• Council of Europe, Venice Commission: Constitutional Courts (Links)
• Equitas, International Centre for Human Rights Education
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Canada
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) - Canada
• Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB)
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC in North America
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) - Canada
• Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs Canada
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Canada
• ReliefWeb - Canada
• Rights & Democracy
• School of Peace and Conflict Management, Royal Roads University
• UNHCR - Canada
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Canada
• United States Department of State - Canada
• Winnipeg Refugee Education Network (WREN)
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Canada