UNHCR Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Asylum-Seekers from Iraq

Document source:

UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Date:
31 May 2012

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Title

UNHCR Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Asylum-Seekers from Iraq

Document source

UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Date

31 May 2012

Document number

HCR/EG/IRQ/12/03

Document type

Country/Situation Specific Policy & Guidance

Collection

Policy & Guidance

Country

Iraq

Keywords

Armed forces / Military

Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements

Children-at-risk

Complementary forms of protection

Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity

Exclusion clauses

Forced marriage

Gender-based persecution

Harmful traditional practices

Honour killings

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

International protection

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI)

Minorities

Non-state agents of persecution

Persecution based on political opinion

Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity

Prostitution / Commercial sex work

Racial / Ethnic persecution

Religious discrimination

Religious persecution (including forced conversion)

Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV)

Single heads of household

Trafficking in persons

Transgression of social / cultural norms

Protected persons

Asylum-seekers

Internally displaced persons (IDPs)

Population groups

Shabak

Turkmen

Religious groups

Baha'i

Jew

Sabean Mandean

Shia

Sunni

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