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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Non-refoulement (article 33(1))
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- Date: November 1997
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- Date: 31 January 1994
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 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, -, 31 January 1994, https://www.refworld.org/jurisprudence/amicus/unhcr/1994/20625 [accessed 01 May 2026]
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.
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- Date: October 1992
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 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), No. 92-344, October 1992, https://www.refworld.org/jurisprudence/amicus/unhcr/1992/36048 [accessed 01 May 2026]
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.
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- Date: 31 December 1991
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 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., Nos. 91-6060; 91-6105; 91-6118, 31 December 1991, https://www.refworld.org/jurisprudence/amicus/unhcr/1991/70640 [accessed 01 May 2026]
