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.
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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
European Union: European Agency for Fundamental Rights, Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Handbook on European law relating to asylum, borders and immigration, 17 December 2020, https://www.refworld.org/reference/manuals/eufra/2020/123428 [accessed 01 May 2026]
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- Date: 2 December 2016
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Guidelines on International Protection No. 12: Claims for refugee status related to situations of armed conflict and violence under Article 1A(2) of the 1951 Convention and/or 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees and the regional refugee definitions, HCR/GIP/16/12, 2 December 2016, https://www.refworld.org/policy/legalguidance/unhcr/2016/113881 [accessed 01 May 2026]
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- Date: 23 March 2016
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Legal considerations on the return of asylum-seekers and refugees from Greece to Turkey as part of the EU-Turkey Cooperation in Tackling the Migration Crisis under the safe third country and first country of asylum concept, 23 March 2016, https://www.refworld.org/policy/legalguidance/unhcr/2016/109567 [accessed 01 May 2026]
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- Date: 7 July 2014
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Summary Conclusions on the interpretation of the extended refugee definition in the 1984 Cartagena Declaration; roundtable 15 and 16 October 2013, Montevideo, Uruguay, 7 July 2014, https://www.refworld.org/reference/confdoc/unhcr/2014/117440 [accessed 01 May 2026]
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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
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), UNHCR intervention before the Court of Final Appeal of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in the case between C, KMF, BF (Applicants) and Director of Immigration, Secretary for Security (Respondents), Civil Appeals Nos. 18, 19 & 20 of 2011, 31 January 2013, https://www.refworld.org/jurisprudence/amicus/unhcr/2013/90431 [accessed 01 May 2026]
concerning UNHCR's supervisory responsibility under international and EU law.
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- Date: August 2012
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), UNHCR public statement in relation to Zuheyr Freyeh Halaf v. the Bulgarian State Agency for Refugees pending before the Court of Justice of the European Union, C-528/11, August 2012, https://www.refworld.org/jurisprudence/amicus/unhcr/2012/87693 [accessed 01 May 2026]
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- Date: 27 July 2011
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Safe at Last? Law and Practice in Selected EU Member States with Respect to Asylum-Seekers Fleeing Indiscriminate Violence, 27 July 2011, https://www.refworld.org/reference/regionalreport/unhcr/2011/80324 [accessed 01 May 2026]
