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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- Date: August 2008
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), UNHCR public statement in relation to Salahadin Abdulla and Others v. Bundesrepublik Deutschland pending before the Court of Justice of the European Union, C-175/08; C-176/08; C-178/08 & C-179/08, August 2008, https://www.refworld.org/jurisprudence/amicus/unhcr/2008/61189 [accessed 01 May 2026]
on the interpretation of the Article 1F(a) exclusion clause; "persecutor of others" bar to asylum; individual responsibility requirement; defenses to criminal liability; duress.
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- Date: 23 June 2008
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), UNHCR intervention before the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Negusie, v. Mukasey, Attorney General, No. 07-499, 23 June 2008, https://www.refworld.org/jurisprudence/amicus/unhcr/2008/58167 [accessed 01 May 2026]
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- Date: 24 January 2008
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- Date: June 2007
Division of Operational Services; Technical Support Section; Education Unit, Safe Schools and Learning Environment. How to Prevent and Respond to Violence in Refugee Schools. A Guide, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), June 2007, https://www.refworld.org/policy/opguidance/unhcr/2007/45422 [accessed 01 May 2026]
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- Date: May 2007
Division of International Protection Services (DIPS); UNHCR Brussels, Note on the Integration of Refugees in the European Union, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), May 2007, https://www.refworld.org/policy/legalguidance/unhcr/2007/41624 [accessed 01 May 2026]
On admission, legal status and detention of asylum-seekers in the host territory during the asylum procedure, including whether, and in what circumstances, such detention is compatible with international refugee and human rights law.
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- Date: 30 March 2007
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), UNHCR intervention before the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Saadi v. United Kingdom, Application No. 13229/03, 30 March 2007, https://www.refworld.org/jurisprudence/amicus/unhcr/2007/53147 [accessed 01 May 2026]
on the determination of individual responsibility; application of Article 1F and Article 33(2) in the US; material support bar.
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- Date: 21 February 2007
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), UNHCR intervention before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in the case of Tiuang Ling Thang v. Gonzales, Attorney General, 21 February 2007, https://www.refworld.org/jurisprudence/amicus/unhcr/2007/32723 [accessed 01 May 2026]
family as a particular social group; nexus between persecution feared and Convention ground.
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- Date: 25 January 2007
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), UNHCR intervention before the United States Board of Immigration Appeals in the Matter of Michelle Thomas et al. (in Removal Proceedings), A-75-597-033/-034/-035/-036, 25 January 2007, https://www.refworld.org/jurisprudence/amicus/unhcr/2007/40631 [accessed 01 May 2026]
female genital mutilation; gender-related persecution; particular social group.
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- Date: 14 June 2006
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), UNHCR intervention before the House of Lords in the case of Zainab Esther Fornah (Appellant) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department (Respondent), 14 June 2006, https://www.refworld.org/jurisprudence/amicus/unhcr/2006/23715 [accessed 01 May 2026]
This study is a contribution to UNHCR’s Agenda for Protection in 2002, which urged ‘States more concertedly to explore alternative approaches to the detention of asylum seekers and refugees ...’ in response to the increasing use of detention of asylum seekers and/or refugees. This study presents an overview of the legal standards under international law applicable to both detention as well as alternatives to detention. Then it goes on to present a range of alternatives to detention used by many receiving countries and attempts to evaluate those measures, specifically in relation to rates of absconding.
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- Date: April 2006
Ophelia Field (with the assistance of Alice Edwards), Alternatives to Detention of Asylum Seekers and Refugees, Research Paper No.11, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), April 2006, https://www.refworld.org/reference/lpprs/unhcr/2006/40682 [accessed 01 May 2026]
