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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The purpose of this paper is to describe the UNHCR’s supervisory role within the broader context of its international protection mandate, to analyse its content, and to propose for discussion possible avenues that could be developed to enhance that role.
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- Date: October 2002
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- Date: 26 July 2002
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- Date: 1 December 2001
This commentary provides valuable insights into the preparatory work of the 1951 Convention and the
circumstances surrounding its elaboration and opening for signature. This document helps us to see refugee law in its proper historical perspective and to identify its essential continuity.
circumstances surrounding its elaboration and opening for signature. This document helps us to see refugee law in its proper historical perspective and to identify its essential continuity.
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- Date: October 1997
This commentary provides the history of 1954 Statelessness Convention and its interpretation. It notes that the Statelessness Convention is largely modelled on the 1951 Refugee Convention. It is for this reason that the Commentary to this Convention makes frequent references to the discussion on the preparation of the Refugee Convention and deals in greater detail with the genesis of the articles of the Statelessness Convention.
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- Date: 1997
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- Date: 10 September 1994
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- Date: 25 August 1992
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Note on International Protection (submitted by the High Commissioner), A/AC.96/799, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 25 August 1992, https://www.refworld.org/policy/unhcrnotes/unhcr/1992/42371 [accessed 01 May 2026]
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- Date: 12 August 1991
UNHCR, Report of the Working Group on Solutions and Protection to the Forty-second Session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme, EC/SCP/64, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 12 August 1991, https://www.refworld.org/reference/annualreport/unhcr/1991/41999 [accessed 01 May 2026]
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- Date: April 1989
International Conference on Central American Refugees (CIREFCA), Principles and Criteria for the Protection of and Assistance to Central American Refugees, Returnees and Displaced Persons in Latin America, April 1989, https://www.refworld.org/legal/otherinstr/iccar/1989/35524 [accessed 01 May 2026]
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- Date: 24 August 1978
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Note on the Extraterritorial Effect of the Determination of Refugee Status under the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, EC/SCP/9, 24 August 1978, https://www.refworld.org/reference/annualreport/unhcr/1978/41876 [accessed 01 May 2026]
