Refworld Newsletter - July 2025 [No. 3]
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July 2025
This newsletter provides you with a selection of recent publications from UNHCR and other sources on UNHCR’s Global Law and Policy Database: Refworld.org.
UNHCR Publications
- Summary of the UNHCR Guidance on Article 31 of the 1951 Convention (GIP 14), 6 June 2025
- UNHCR Recommendations on the continued use of Temporary Protection arrangements and Guiding Principles for Transition in relation to the Ukraine Refugee Situation, May 2025
- UNHCR Observations on the European Commission’s Proposal for a Return Regulation – COM/2025/101, May 2025
- UNHCR Guidance Note on the International Protection Needs of People Fleeing Sudan, April 2025
- UNHCR Position on Returns to North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – Update IV (Revision 1), April 2025
- #IBelong Campaign Update, October – December 2024, 10 March 2025
- Background note on Gender Equality, Nationality Laws and Statelessness 2025, 7 March 2025
- Global Report on Law and Policy on Internal Displacement: Implementing National Responsibility, 3 March 2025
- The Need for Effective Returns Systems and the Potential Role of Return Hubs, March 2025
- UNHCR Toolkit on How to Request Interim Measures under Rule 39 of the Rules of the European Court of Human Rights for Persons in Need of International Protection, February 2025
Legal Instruments*
- Peace Agreement Between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Rwanda, 27 June 2025
- Compilation of resolutions on assistance to refugees, returnees and displaced persons in Africa (2014 - 2023), 1 May 2025
- South Sudan: Ministerial Order No. 003/2025, 15 April 2025
- India: Immigration and Foreigners Act, 2025, 4 April 2025
- Niger: Charte de la Refondation, 26 March 2025
- Constitutional Declaration of the Syrian Arab Republic, 13 March 2025
- EU: Proposal for a regulation establishing a common system for the return of third-country nationals staying illegally in the Union, 11 March 2025
- AU: Convention on Ending Violence against Women and Girls, 17 February 2025
* Please note that the Legal Instruments Collection includes non-binding and soft-law instruments, as well as comments on legal instruments.
Case Law
- Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change (Advisory Opinion), ICJ, 23 July 2025
- N° 24035619, France: Cour nationale du droit d'asile, 11 July 2025
- K.J. v. Switzerland, CEDAW, 4 July 2025
- H.Q. and Others v. Hungary, ECtHR, 24 June 2025 & UNHCR’s Submission
- S.S. et autres contre l’Italie (inadmissibility decision), ECtHR, 12 June 2025 & UNHCR’s Submission
- Opinión Consultiva OC-32/25 sobre Emergencia Climática y Derechos Humanos. Solicitada por la República de Colombia y la República de Chile, IACtHR, 29 May 2025 & UNHCR’s Submission [both on Spanish Refworld]
- B and A v. Immigration Appeals Board’s (UNE), Norway: Borgarting Court of Appeal, 11 April 2025 & UNHCR’s Submission
Research & Reports
- European Agency for Fundamental Rights, Countering the instrumentalisation of migrants and refugees and respecting fundamental rights, 23 July 2025
- P. Pisco, Council of Europe: Parliamentary Assembly, Saving the lives of migrants at sea and protecting their human rights, 6 June 2025
- Sen, L. Nira, UNHCR, Ending Statelessness Together, June 2025
- E. Kanoulas, UNHCR, Unlocking Artificial Intelligence’s Potential in COI Research, February 2025
- A.B. Halakhe, A.Y. Kara, Refugees International, Removing Red Tape to Get Kenya’s Refugee Act Right, March 2025
- European Agency for Fundamental Rights, Planned Return Hubs in Third Countries: EU Fundamental Rights Law Issues, February 2025
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