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: 15 September 2000
RO Brussels, UNHCR Summary Observations on the Commission Proposal for a Council Directive on Minimum Standards for Giving Temporary Protection in the Event of a Mass Influx (COM(2000) 303, 24 May 2000), -, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 15 September 2000, https://www.refworld.org/legal/intlegcomments/unhcr/2000/21132 [accessed 27 April 2026]
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- Date: 18 August 2000
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- Date: 11 August 2000
UN Economic and Social Council, General Comment No. 14: The Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health (Art. 12 of the Covenant), E/C.12/2000/4, UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR), 11 August 2000, https://www.refworld.org/legal/general/cescr/2000/36991 [accessed 27 April 2026]
This Opinion deals (1) with the applicable principles of international law, followed by (2) a review of the background to and scope of Articles 25, 27 and 28 1951 Convention; it then provides (3) a brief examination of selected State practice, (4) a summary account of current Canadian law and practice, and (5) an evaluation of that practice against the international standards established in the preceding paragraphs. It concludes (6) with a number of recommendations.
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- Date: May 2000
Guy S. Goodwin-Gill, MA, DPhil (Oxon), Opinion : The 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the Obligations of States under Articles 25, 27 and 28, with particular reference to refugees without identity or travel documents, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), May 2000, https://www.refworld.org/reference/research/unhcr/2000/95149 [accessed 27 April 2026]
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- Date: 8 February 2000
Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of a Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, Note by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Children's Fund and the International Organization for Migration on the draft protocols concerning migrant smuggling and trafficking in persons, A/AC.254/27, UN General Assembly, 8 February 2000, https://www.refworld.org/reference/research/unga/2000/16303 [accessed 27 April 2026]
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- Date: 28 December 1999
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- Date: 2 November 1999
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- Date: 4 June 1999
Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme; Standing Committee, Detention of Asylum-Seekers and Refugees: The Framework, the Problem and Recommended Practice, EC/49/SC/CRP.13, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 4 June 1999, https://www.refworld.org/reference/annualreport/unhcr/1999/57707 [accessed 27 April 2026]
This paper examines a particular category of measures which present serious risks to refugee protection: several current or evolving international treaties and agreements which contravene existing obligations to protect refugees. Not all are directed towards refugees or asylum seekers. As international treaties, however, they have greater significance than unilateral state actions, and arguably the same standing in international law as the 1951 Refugee Convention itself.
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- Date: June 1999
Karin Landgren, Deflecting international protection by treaty: bilateral and multilateral accords on extradition, readmission and the inadmissibility of asylum requests, Working Paper No.10, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), June 1999, https://www.refworld.org/reference/research/unhcr/1999/92191 [accessed 27 April 2026]
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- Date: 25 May 1998
Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme; Standing Committee, Note on Resettlement of Refugees with Special Needs, EC/48/SC/CRP.28, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 25 May 1998, https://www.refworld.org/reference/annualreport/unhcr/1998/70733 [accessed 27 April 2026]
