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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Refugee Protection
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- Date: 13 March 2009
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), UNHCR Comments on the European Commission's Proposal for a recast of the Directive laying down minimum standards for the reception of asylum-seekers (COM (2008)815 final of 3 December 2008), 13 March 2009, https://www.refworld.org/legal/intlegcomments/unhcr/2009/66321 [accessed 02 May 2026]
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- Date: March 2009
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- Date: 2009
on the scope of Article 1F(c); application of Article 1F(c) to acts of "terrorism"
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- Date: 19 November 2008
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), UNHCR intervention before the Court of Appeal of England and Wales in the case of YS (Egypt) (Appellant) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department (Respondent), C5/2007/2372, 19 November 2008, https://www.refworld.org/jurisprudence/amicus/unhcr/2008/64168 [accessed 02 May 2026]
On the exception to the principle of non-refoulement in Article 33(2); the requirement that a person has been convicted by a final judgment of a "particularly serious crime"; assessment of whether the person constitutes a future "danger to the community".
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- Date: 19 June 2008
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), UNHCR intervention before the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in the case of N- A- M- v. Mukasey, Attorney General, Case no. 08-9527 & 07-9580, 19 June 2008, https://www.refworld.org/jurisprudence/amicus/unhcr/2008/59516 [accessed 02 May 2026]
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- Date: April 2008
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- Date: 29 February 2008
UNHCR Brussels, UNHCR Observations on the Commission Proposal for a Council Directive Amending Directive 2003/109/EC Establishing a Long-Term Residence Status to Extend its Scope to Beneficiaries of International Protection, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 29 February 2008, https://www.refworld.org/legal/intlegcomments/unhcr/2008/56221 [accessed 02 May 2026]
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- Date: January 2008
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), UNHCR public statement in relation to Elgafaji v. Staatssecretaris van Justitie before the Court of Justice of the European Union, January 2008, https://www.refworld.org/jurisprudence/amicus/unhcr/2008/7870 [accessed 02 May 2026]
Concerning IFA; the "reasonableness analysis"; interpretation of "relatively normal life" and "without undue hardship" concepts by reference to the personal circumstances of the individual concerned.
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- Date: 4 October 2007
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), UNHCR intervention before the House of Lords in the case of Secretary of State for the Home Department (Appellant) v. AH (Sudan), IG (Sudan) and NM (Sudan) (Respondents), 4 October 2007, https://www.refworld.org/jurisprudence/amicus/unhcr/2007/18378 [accessed 02 May 2026]
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- Date: March 2007
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR); Food and Agriculture Agency (FAO); Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC); Inter-Agency Internal Displacement Division (IDD); Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR); UN-HABITAT, Handbook on Housing and Property Restitution for Refugees and Displaced Persons. Implementing the 'Pinheiro Principles', Inter-Agency, March 2007, https://www.refworld.org/reference/manuals/ia/2007/43334 [accessed 02 May 2026]
