UNHCR's Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Iraqi Asylum-seekers

Document source:

UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Date:
August 2007

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Title

UNHCR's Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Iraqi Asylum-seekers

Document source

UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Date

August 2007

Document type

Country/Situation Specific Policy & Guidance

Collection

Policy & Guidance

Country

Iraq

Keywords

Agents of persecution

Complementary forms of protection

Country of origin information (COI)

Exclusion clauses

Gender-based persecution

Inclusion clauses

Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA)

International protection

Non-state agents of persecution

Persecution based on political opinion

Racial / Ethnic persecution

Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures

Religious persecution (including forced conversion)

Social group persecution

Transgression of social / cultural norms

Women-at-risk

Protected persons

Asylum-seekers

Internally displaced persons (IDPs)

Refugees

Comments:

The positions contained in these Guidelines are superceded by UNHCR Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Iraqi Asylum-Seekers of April 2009.

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