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Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

Interventions before courts by UNHCR and other organizations are an important tool through which protection standards can be developed and a consistent application of refugee law fostered. Interventions before courts may take different forms, depending on the national or supranational context, including formal amicus curiae briefs, advisory opinions or letters to the court or parties involved, as well as public statements. Interventions by UNHCR are carried out in the exercise of its supervisory function.

Refworld is the repository of all interventions made by UNHCR in judicial proceedings before national and regional courts. They are organised in reverse-chronological order and, where available, are linked to the court decision in the case(s) at hand once adopted.
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In the Court of Final Appeal of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Civil Appeals NOS. 18, 19 & 20 of 2011 between C, KMF, BF (Applicants) and Director of Immigration, Secretary for Security (Respondents) and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Intervener) - Intervener's Case

31 January 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

Mujkanoviv and 10 other applications v. Bosnia and Herzegovina: submissions of the Redress Trust and the World Organization against Torture (interveners)

January 2013 | Publisher: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

Matter of Valdiviezo-Galdamez, Amicus Curiae Brief In Support Of Respondent

10 August 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

UNHCR Statement on the right to asylum, UNHCR's supervisory responsibility and the duty of States to cooperate with UNHCR in the exercise of its supervisory responsibility. Issued in the context of a reference for a preliminary ruling addressed to Court of Justice of the European Union by the Administrative Court of Sofia lodged on 18 October 2011 - Zuheyr Freyeh Halaf v. the Bulgarian State Agency for Refugees

August 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

Submission by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the case of Defence for Children International (DCI) v. Belgium

13 July 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

UNHCR Statement on the Application of Article 1A(2) of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol to Victims of Trafficking in France

12 June 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

Position du HCR relative à l'application de l'article 1A(2) de la Convention de 1951 ou Protocole de 1967 aux victimes de la traite en France

12 June 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

Secretary of State for the Home Department (Appellant) v. RT (Zimbabwe), SM (Zimbabwe) and AM (Zimbabwe) (Respondents) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Intervener) - Case for the Intervener

25 May 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

UNHCR's Oral Intervention at the Court of Justice of the European Union- Hearing of the case of El Kott and Others v. Hungary (C-364/11)

15 May 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

Avis du Haut Commissariat des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés relatif à l'application des concepts de 'pays de résidence habituelle' ou 'alternative réelle d'établissement' dans le cadre de l'examen de demandes d'asile de personnes qui ont une nationalité mais qui ont ou qui pourraient avoir obtenu une protection dans un autre pays

May 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

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