(b) Agents of Persecution

  Soft Law UNHCR, ‘Handbook on Procedures and Criteria for Determining Refugee Status under the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees’, HCR/IP/4/Rev.1, 1979, para. 65.UNHCR DocumentsUNHCR, ‘Position Paper on Agents of Persecution’, 14 March 1995.ReadingsCoreG. Goodwin-Gill and J. McAdam, The Refugee in International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 98–100. [G. Goodwin-Gill, The Refugee in International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 70–74].J. Hathaway, The Law of Refugee Status (Toronto: Butterworths, 1991), pp. 124–131.J. Moore, ‘Whither the Accountability Theory: Second-Class Status for Third-Party Refugees as a Threat to International Refugee Protection’, International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 13, nos. 1-2 (January 2001), p. 32.V. Türk, ‘Non-State Agents of Persecution’ in: V Chetail and V Gowlland-Debbas (eds), Switzerland and the International Protection of Refugees, (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2002), pp. 95–109.  

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Section I Introduction to International Refugee Law: Background and Context


Section II International Framework for Refugee Protection


Section III European Framework for Refugee Protection


Section IV UNHCR and Other Actors Relevant to International Asylum Law

(b) Agents of Persecution

 

Soft Law

UNHCR, ‘Handbook on Procedures and Criteria for Determining Refugee Status under the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees’, HCR/IP/4/Rev.1, 1979, para. 65.

UNHCR Documents
UNHCR, ‘Position Paper on Agents of Persecution’, 14 March 1995.

Readings
Core
G. Goodwin-Gill and J. McAdam, The Refugee in International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 98–100. [G. Goodwin-Gill, The Refugee in International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 70–74].

J. Hathaway, The Law of Refugee Status (Toronto: Butterworths, 1991), pp. 124–131.

J. Moore, ‘Whither the Accountability Theory: Second-Class Status for Third-Party Refugees as a Threat to International Refugee Protection’, International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 13, nos. 1-2 (January 2001), p. 32.

V. Türk, ‘Non-State Agents of Persecution’ in: V Chetail and V Gowlland-Debbas (eds), Switzerland and the International Protection of Refugees, (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2002), pp. 95–109.

 

Soft Law

Handbook on Procedures and Criteria for Determining Refugee Status

UNHCR, 'Handbook on Procedures and Criteria for Determining Refugee Status under the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees', HCR/IP/4/Rev.1, 1979, para. 65.

Readings

Core

The Law of Refugee Status

J. Hathaway, The Law of Refugee Status (Toronto: Butterworths, 1991), 124-131.
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The Refugee in International Law

G. Goodwin-Gill, The Refugee in International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2nd edn., 1996), 70-74.
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Whither the Accountability Theory: Second-Class Status for Third-Party Refugees as a Threat to International Refugee Protection

J. Moore, 'Whither the Accountability Theory: Second-Class Status for Third-Party Refugees as a Threat to International Refugee Protection' (2001) 13 International Journal of Refugee Law 32.

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Non-State Agents of Persecution

V. Türk, 'Non-State Agents of Persecution' in: V Chetail and V Gowlland-Debbas (eds) Switzerland and the International Protection of Refugees, (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2002), 95–109.