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Guidelines and general position papers
July 2010
The recommendations seek to capitalize on the Belgian Presidency's commitment to prioritize asylum in the area of Justice and Home Affairs and to utilize the recent and expected developments in the area, such as the adoption of the Lisbon Treaty and the Stockholm Programme and the establishment of a European Asylum Support Office, to make progress on the asylum legislation and practical cooperation.
December 2009
Spain is the first country to take up the rotating Presidency after the entry
into force of the Lisbon Treaty. With this Treaty come new opportunities in
the area of asylum and refugee protection. The Treaty commits the EU to establish
a common asylum procedure and uniform status of asylum and of subsidiary protection.
22 december 2009
29 June 2009
Published 18 March 2009
...of the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council 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 ("Dublin II") (COM(2008) 820, 3 December 2008) and the European Commission's Proposal for a recast of the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the establishment of 'Eurodac' for the comparison of fingerprints for the effective application of [the Dublin II Regulation] (COM(2008) 825, 3 December 2008)
Published 13 March 2009
2008-10-16
"Protection makes a difference. It can mean the difference" - statement by Ms. Erika Feller, Assistant High Commissioner, at UNHCR's 59th session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme. This document and others are released and posted on UNHCR's Refworld website in relation to the 2008 ExCom session held in Geneva from 6 to 10 October 2008.
29 August 2008
(www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/48b6c62f2.html)
UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Thematic Compilation of Executive Committee Conclusions, August 2008. Third edition. Online. Available at UNHCR Refworld.
[accessed 29 August 2008]
6 June 2008
(www.unhcr.org/refword)
Publication date May 2008. Online. Available at UNHCR Refworld. Accessed 6 June 2008.
This final version of the Guidelines has been produced following two years of field testing of the provisionally released version of May 2006.
April 15, 2008
Read more on Refworld
March 7, 2008
(www.unhcr.org/protect)
UN High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR Handbook for the Protection of Women and Girls, January 2008. Online, available at UNHCR Refworld [accessed 7 March 2008]
The Handbook replaces UNHCR's 1991 Guidelines on the Protection of Refugee Women and is in fulfillment of a commitment made under the Agenda for Protection.
UNHCR's Refworld website
March 2008
(www.refworld.org)
This "UNHCR Compilation of Case Law on Refugee Protection in International Law", produced by the Status Determination and Protection Information Section (SDPIS), is an overview which highlights almost 70 judgments/decisions of seminal value. The cases are organized thematically, according to several main refugee law-related issues (such as inclusion, internal flight alternative and exclusion). The Compilation provides short summaries for the poignant issues in each case.
March 2008
February 2008
(www.refworld.org)
This Statement is a call to all States, international and national organizations, civil society and communities to uphold the rights of girls and women. It also calls on those bodies and communities to develop, strengthen, and support specific and concrete actions directed towards ending female genital mutilation.
January 2008
(www.unhcr.org/eu)
The paper addresses a number of key issues which UNHCR expects will be active on the Council and Parliament agenda during the first part of the year, including relating to the internal dimension, in the field of security, on the external dimension, as well as other key issues of concern to UNHCR. Recommendations on all issues are included
December 31, 2007
December 2007
These Guidelines complement the UNHCR Return Advisory and Position on International Protection Needs of Iraqis Outside Iraq dated 18 December 2006 (Corr. April 2007).
August 2007
May 2007
The integration of refugees is a dynamic and multifaceted two-way process which requires efforts by all parties concerned, including a preparedness on the part of refugees to adapt to the host society without having to forego their own cultural identity, and a corresponding readiness on the part of host communities and public institutions to welcome refugees and meet the needs of a diverse population.
October 2006
The objective of this matrix is to provide an overview of the main activities of UNHCR and partner responses with regard to the implementation of UNHCR's Ten Point Plan for Addressing Mixed Migratory Movements1, on the European side of the Mediterranean Sea.
September 2006
The protection of civilians in armed conflict is an issue which has been
seized by the Security Council and subject of a number of Security Council
Resolutions in recent years. Ensuring the safety of refugee camps and settlements
is an important aspect of addressing the issue and maintaining the civilian
and humanitarian character of such camps and settlements a modality toward
this end.
September 2006
This Framework for analysing gaps in protection capacity was developed in the context
of the Strengthening Protection Capacity Project (SPCP). Initially funded by the
European Commission and three co-funding States, the SPCP seeks to strengthen the
capacity of States to protect refugees and others of concern. It uses a comprehensive and
collaborative approach to capacity building that involves all concerned stakeholders in
the identification of protection gaps and the development of projects to remedy them.
August 2006
This UNHCR Note addresses issues and concerns related to international refugee protection which arise where States rely on diplomatic assurances in the context of the transfer of a person from one State to another. It provides an overview of States' non-refoulement obligations under international refugee and human rights law as well as customary international law and analzyes their implications for the use of diplomatic assurances where the person to be removed is a refugee or asylum-seeker. The Note also examines the impact on the determination of eligibility for refugee status in cases where diplomatic assurances have been given with regard to an asylum-seeker and sets out UNHCR's position on a number of procedural and substantive questions which arise in this context.
May 2006
This Tool is the product of collaborative efforts, resulting from
consultations and contributions from UNHCR staff and partners
in the field and at headquarters in Geneva; it was piloted in 14
countries and has been applied in 40 UNHCR field operations.
January 6, 2006
February 2006
February 2006, update
March 17, 2006
December 2006
June 2005
April 2005
October 2002
February 1997
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