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This paper provides a historical background to the Cartagena Declaration, including the process of its adoption, its content and the way it was initially understood and applied. It then provides an overview of the extent and manner in which Latin American countries have formally incorporated the regional refugee definition into their national legal frameworks and describes the core findings of state practice in relation to the regional refugee definition. The paper concludes with a short reflection for future initiatives aimed at reinvigorating international protection and reviving some of the aspirations that made the Cartagena-inspired process so important throughout the region.

This research study examines the workings of ‘alternatives to detention’ (ATDs) through empirical research in two contexts, Toronto, Canada, and Geneva, Switzerland. Relying on a detailed literature review, and qualitative research carried out in summer 2012 in Toronto and Geneva, the report attempts to capture the workings of ATDs in particular from the perspective of the asylum seekers, refugees and other migrants they most closely affect.

On the right to seek and enjoy asylum; the principle of non-refoulement; rights of residence and freedom of movement; urban refugee policy in the context of forced relocation (to camps) of asylum-seekers and refugees.

This study was commissioned by UNHCR to further develop its understanding of what protection in natural disaster means, as well as what response protection requires on behalf of affected populations, based on a review of operational experience to date. Further, the study attempts to provide insight on the institutional and operational measures that would be required for a protection agency such as UNHCR to provide better support to national governments in their protection response.