UNHCR Protection Manual
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 note sets out key aspects of the mandate of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (hereafter the High Commissioner) and the Office of the High Commissioner (hereafter the Office), including the legal basis and sources of the mandates, its nature and character, as well as the mandate’s personal and material scope. This includes refugees, asylum-seekers, returnees, and stateless and internally displaced people
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- Date: December 2025
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- Date: June 2017
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- Date: 6 October 2016
Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme (ExCom), Conclusion No. 112 (LXVII): International cooperation from a protection and solutions perspective - Adopted by the Executive Committee (2016), No. 112 (LXVII) 2016, 6 October 2016, https://www.refworld.org/policy/exconc/excom/2016/11534 [accessed 30 April 2026]
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- Date: 3 October 2016
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- Date: 3 June 2015
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- Date: June 2014
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- Date: 29 June 2013
European Union: Council of the European Union, Regulation (EU) No 604/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 establishing the criteria and mechanisms for determining the Member State responsible for examining an application for international protection lodged in one of the Member States by a third-country national or a stateless person (recast), OJ L. 180/31-180/59; 29.6.2013, (EU)No 604/2013, 29 June 2013, https://www.refworld.org/legal/reglegislation/council/2013/14874 [accessed 30 April 2026]
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- Date: 29 June 2013
European Union: Council of the European Union, Regulation (EU) No 603/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on the establishment of 'Eurodac' for the comparison of fingerprints for the effective application of Regulation (EU) No 604/2013 establishing the criteria and mechanisms for determining the Member State responsible for examining an application for international protection lodged in one of the Member States by a third-country national or a stateless person and on requests for the comparison with Eurodac data by Member States' law enforcement authorities and Europol for law enforcement purposes, and amending Regulation (EU) No 1077/2011 establishing a European Agency for the operational management of large-scale IT systems in the area of freedom, security and justice (recast), OJ L. 180/1-180/30; 29.6.2013, (EU)2003/86, 29 June 2013, https://www.refworld.org/legal/reglegislation/council/2013/89216 [accessed 30 April 2026]
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- Date: 29 June 2013
European Union: Council of the European Union, Directive 2013/32/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on common procedures for granting and withdrawing international protection (recast), OJ L. 180/60 -180/95; 29.6.2013, 2013/32/EU, 29 June 2013, https://www.refworld.org/legal/reglegislation/council/2013/97663 [accessed 30 April 2026]
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- Date: 29 June 2013
European Union: Council of the European Union, Directive 2013/33/EU of the European Parliament and Council of 26 June 2013 laying down standards for the reception of applicants for international protection (recast), OJ L. 180/96 -105/32; 29.6.2013, 2013/33/EU, 29 June 2013, https://www.refworld.org/legal/reglegislation/council/2013/102659 [accessed 30 April 2026]
