Refugee protection and assistance

Protection of refugee women

Protection of refugee children

Meeting the protection needs of refugee women and refugee children

A key international principle in refugee protection is non refoulement.

The tools it had developed combined protection with durable solutions while sharing the burden of refugee protection.

A deployment consists in sending experienced employees for refugee protection to UNHCR operations with temporary staff protection needs.

It includes 12 objectives on promotion of law and advocacy of refugee protection.

The Agenda calls on States to strengthen protection capacities in refugee receiving countries.

(c) The blanket exclusion by the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act 2002 (sect. 97) of the status of refugee or person in need of protection for persons falling within the security exceptions set out in the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its Protocol as a result, such persons' substantive claims are not considered by the Refugee Protection Division or reviewed by the Refugee Appeal Division

Where UNHCR was involved in refugee status determination (RSD), the challenge remained to transfer responsibility for RSD to national refugee protection systems in a timely manner.

The previous expected accomplishment referring to protection needs of refugee women, children and the elderly now refers to protection needs of refugee women and children it has left aside the elderly an increasing population without an accomplishment target.

The Agenda for Protection calls for more resolute responses to root causes of refugee movements.

Malta agreed with UNHCR that refugee protection and migration required a separate but interlinked approach.

The self study module Human Rights and Refugee Protection (formerly RLD5) is currently being revised.

The Protection Capacity Section is responsible for the promotion and dissemination of principles of refugee law and international protection (UNHCR briefing note on the Department of International Protection).

The Protection Capacity Section is responsible for the promotion and dissemination of principles of refugee law and international protection (UNHCR briefing note on the Department of International Protection).

The spread of terrorism had brought new implications and challenges to the international refugee protection regime.

Canada encouraged the Organization to raise awareness of protection issues among its staff, and trusted that UNHCR would assign more staff to refugee protection.

(k) Affirms that measures to provide complementary protection should be implemented in a manner that strengthens, rather than undermines, the existing international refugee protection regime

Following the attacks of 11 September 2001, UNHCR issued a policy paper entitled Addressing Security Concerns without Undermining Refugee Protection i which addresses mechanisms which can be put in place in the field of asylum and highlights the refugee protection principles at stake.

(l) Notes that temporary protection, without formally according refugee status, as a specific provisional protection response to situations of mass influx providing immediate emergency protection from refoulement, should be clearly distinguished from other forms of international protection

To revitalize old partnerships and build new ones in support of the international refugee protection system, efforts to promote collaboration on refugee protection with a wide range of actors, including the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, will be continued.

The Federal Court considered all the findings of the Refugee Protection Division and found no reason to intervene.

Registration was also singled out as an important protection tool, with specific examples from various refugee hosting States.

Registration was also singled out as an important protection tool, with specific examples from various refugee hosting states.

If they are not, this should open the door to international protection and legitimize their classification as refugee.

(s) Underlines the importance of applying and developing the international refugee protection system in a way which avoids protection gaps and enables all those in need of international protection to find and enjoy it.

1997 2003 Consultant for the European Union funded projects on data protection, antidiscrimination law, refugee law, and migration problems.

In 2004, a rights based approach was promoted to enhance the protection and care of refugee children, including adolescents.

No single section was tasked with the promotion of refugee law and protection, but almost all sections contributed to it.

The challenge remains to pursue a timely and properly resourced transfer of responsibility for RSD to national refugee protection systems.

UNHCR must be careful that action in support of internally displaced persons was not at the expense of refugee protection.

2.6 On 20 March 1998 the Refugee Protection Division of the Immigration and Refugee Board determined that the complainant was not a refugee within the meaning of the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees as defined in the Immigration Act, because his account was not credible.

(q) Encourages States to consider whether it may be appropriate to establish a comprehensive procedure before a central expert authority making a single decision which allows the assessment of refugee status followed by other international protection needs, as a means of assessing all international protection needs without undermining refugee protection and while recognizing the need for a flexible approach to the procedures applied

(b) The ongoing development of a legal regime of international protection, in particular through the promotion of accessions to international and regional instruments relating to the status of refugees or otherwise benefiting refugees, the effective implementation of refugee rights and the promotion and dissemination of refugee law and protection principles

It notes that the Refugee Protection Division was better placed than the Committee to draw conclusions as to the complainant's credibility.

8.5 The Committee notes the State party's point that the Refugee Protection Division concluded that the complainant's testimony contained significant gaps.

(i) Encourages the use of complementary forms of protection for individuals in need of international protection who do not meet the refugee definition under the 1951 Convention or the 1967 Protocol

(c) Recognizes that refugee law is a dynamic body of law based on the obligations of State Parties to the 1951 Convention and its 1967 Protocol and, where applicable, on regional refugee protection instruments, and which is informed by the object and purpose of these instruments and by developments in related areas of international law, such as human rights and international humanitarian law bearing directly on refugee protection

Donor contributions and UNHCR expenditures in support of the IDP response must not reduce contributions or expenditures towards refugee protection and assistance.

Together, they reaffirmed their commitment to the Declaration and adopted a Plan of Action to improve refugee protection in the region and respond in particular to the humanitarian situation of Colombians needing protection.

She called for strict compliance with the refugee Convention so as to guard against the politicization of the international protection regime for refugees.

Partnerships and networks with donors, United Nations organizations, NGOs and host Governments were strengthened to support the protection of refugee girls and boys.

It continues its capacity building projects for national refugee administrations, including eligibility committees, to ensure that refugees have access to adequate refugee status determination procedures and receive protection counselling and interventions from the relevant government authorities and judicial bodies.