UNHCR Protection Manual

The Protection Manual is UNHCR's repository of protection policy and guidance. The documents are listed in reverse chronological order.

Refugee Protection

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Note on Burden and Standard of Proof in Refugee Claims

Document source:
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Date: 16 December 1998

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UNHCR Note on the Principle of Non-Refoulement

Document source:
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Date: November 1997

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Memorandum of Understanding between the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the World Health Organization

Document source:
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

UN World Health Organization (WHO)
Date: 17 March 1997

Considerations on the "Safe Third Country" Concept

Document source:
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Date: July 1996

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Representations to the Social Security Advisory Committee on the "Social Security (Persons from Abroad) Miscellaneous Amendment Regulations 1995"

Document source:
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Date: 10 November 1995

Agents of Persecution - UNHCR Position

Document source:
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Date: 14 March 1995

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The Principle of Non-Refoulement as a Norm of Customary International Law. Response to the Questions Posed to UNHCR by the Federal Constitutional Court of the Federal Republic of Germany in Cases 2 BvR 1938/93, 2 BvR 1953/93, 2 BvR 1954/93

Document source:
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Date: 31 January 1994

UNHCR intervention before the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Gene McNary, Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service, et al. (Petitioners) v. Haitian Centers Council, Inc., et al. (Respondents)

On the interpretation of Articles 33 and 40 and customary law obligation of non-return; scope of principle of non-refoulement; persons intercepted on the high seas; state responsibility for actions taken outside its territory or territorial waters.

Document source:
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Date: October 1992

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Protection of Persons of Concern to UNHCR Who Fall Outside the 1951 Convention: A Discussion Note

Document source:
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Date: 2 April 1992

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UNHCR intervention before the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in the case of the Haitian Refugee Center, Inc., et aI. v. James Baker, III, Secretary of State, et al.

On international law as part of the law of the United States; treaty interpretation; scope of principle of non-refoulement; persons intercepted on the high seas; state responsibility for actions taken outside its borders.

Document source:
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Date: 31 December 1991

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