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
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- Date: May 2013
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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]
This research represents the most comprehensive publicly-available comparative analysis of asylum procedure law and practice undertaken since the Asylum Procedures Directive’s (APD) adoption. The research addressed 18 articles of the APD, as they are transposed in law and implemented in practice in the twelve participating states. This document presents detailed research on the key provisions as identified in APD.
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- Date: March 2010
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Improving Asylum Procedures: Comparative Analysis and Recommendations for Law and Practice - Detailed Research on Key Asylum Procedures Directive Provisions, March 2010, https://www.refworld.org/reference/research/unhcr/2010/92087 [accessed 01 May 2026]
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- Date: 29 May 2009
Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme; Standing Committee, Update on Implementation of the Agenda for Protection, EC/60/SC/INF.1, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 29 May 2009, https://www.refworld.org/policy/strategy/unhcr/2009/68770 [accessed 01 May 2026]
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- Date: 1 October 2008
