UNHCR Protection Manual - Related sources
The Protection Manual is UNHCR's repository of protection policy and guidance. The documents are listed in reverse chronological order.International Protection
This handbook provides an overview of the law applicable to asylum, border management and immigration in relation to European Union (EU) law and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). It looks at the situation of those foreigners to whom the EU usually refers as third-country nationals, although that distinction is not relevant to cited ECHR law.
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- Date: 17 December 2020
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- Date: 2 December 2016
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- Date: 23 March 2016
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- Date: 7 July 2014
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- Date: January 2014
UNHCR's mandate to determine a person's refugee status, the weight States should afford to UNHCR's refugee recognitions, and the cogent reasons for disregarding UNHCR's recognition.
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- Date: 27 October 2013
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- Date: May 2013
The principle of non-refoulement of refugees as a norm of customary international law and the duty of States to independently inquire whether a person is to be protected from refoulement; the basis, purpose and nature of UNHCR's mandate RSD procedures, including vis-à-vis the responsibility of States not parties to the 1951 Convention (see section E at paras. 72 to 88).
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- Date: 31 January 2013
concerning UNHCR's supervisory responsibility under international and EU law.
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- Date: August 2012
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- Date: 27 July 2011
