Refugee law guides: links

 

For UNHCR’s standards on refugee status determination procedures, click here.

 

As supervisor of implementation of the 1951 Convention relating to the status of Refugees, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees has issues comprehensive guidance on the interpretation of international refugee law. The following external links are to the most important UNHCR documents on the substance of refugee law.

Convention relating to the status of Refugees — text and information

Who is a refugee?

UNHCR Handbook and Guidelines on the Convention refugee definition

Palestinian refugees under the Convention/UNHCR Mandate

 

UNHCR Executive Committee

66 states meeting annually to set standards for refugee protection.


UNHCR policy on special issues

Refugee children
Women refugees


Durable solutions — UNHCR Handbooks

Resettlement

Voluntary Repatriation and Re-Integration

 

Selected UNHCR position papers from Global Consultations

Access to Procedures — “Safe Third Countries,” and “Time Limits”

Complimentary forms of protection

Strengthening protection capacities in host countries

Local integration

Reception of asylum seekers

Protection of refugees in mass influx situations: Overall protection framework

 

UNHCR training materials

 

 

 

Fairness

Transparency

Accountability

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RSDWatch.org

An independent source of information about the way the UN refugee agency decides refugee cases.

 

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