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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Membership of a particular social group
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- Document source:
- Date: 21 November 2012
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Matters of C.P.-G., C.-G., V.-C., C.-G., and A.-C., Amicus Curiae Brief, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees In Support of Respondents, 21 November 2012, https://www.refworld.org/jurisprudence/amicus/unhcr/2012/101359 [accessed 30 April 2026]
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- Date: 29 October 2012
Volker Türk, Protection Conventionnelle et protection subsidiaire, complémentarité ou concurrence? L'exemple de la notion d'appartenance à un certain groupe social, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 29 October 2012, https://www.refworld.org/policy/declas/unhcr/2012/94225 [accessed 30 April 2026]
"social visibility" and "particularity" requirements for the ground of membership to a particular social group for refugee protection.
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- Date: 10 August 2012
This study assesses jurisprudential developments in the case law in both common law and civil law jurisdictions over the past decade. In particular, it explores the degree to which courts have continued to invoke one or both of the dominant interpretative approaches, evaluates the extent to which new tests or elements of the tests have emerged, and undertakes a critical analysis of the state of jurisprudential interpretation of PSG today. It also examines the extent to which interpretation of the MPSG ground has evolved to meet the protection needs of emerging groups and those historically overlooked in refugee law analysis.
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- Date: August 2012
Michelle Foster, The 'Ground with the Least Clarity': A Comparative Study of Jurisprudential Developments relating to 'Membership of a Particular Social Group', Research Paper No.25, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), August 2012, https://www.refworld.org/reference/lpprs/unhcr/2012/85641 [accessed 30 April 2026]
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- Date: 12 June 2012
membership of a particular social group; "protected characteristics" and "social perception" approaches.
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- Date: 23 February 2012
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), UNHCR intervention before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in the case of Henriquez-Rivas v. Holder, Attorney General, No. 09-71571 (A098-660-718), 23 February 2012, https://www.refworld.org/jurisprudence/amicus/unhcr/2012/85239 [accessed 30 April 2026]
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- Date: 31 March 2010
family as a particular social group; nexus between persecution feared and Convention ground.
- Document source:
- 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 30 April 2026]
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- Date: 17 March 2006
Division of International Protection Services (DIPS); Protection Operations and Legal Advice Section, UNHCR Position on Claims for Refugee Status Under the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees Based on a Fear of Persecution Due to an Individual's Membership of a Family or Clan Engaged in a Blood Feud, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 17 March 2006, https://www.refworld.org/policy/legalguidance/unhcr/2006/38378 [accessed 30 April 2026]
