i. Procedures

Soft LawUNHCR EXCOM, Conclusion No. 8 ‘Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-Second Session’, Supplement No. 12, A/32/12/Add.1, para. 53(6)(e).UNHCR DocumentsUNHCR ‘Asylum Processes (Fair and Efficient Asylum Procedures)’, in Global Consultations on International Protection, 31 May 2001.CasesThe Minister of Home Affairs v. Watchenuka, 10 November 2003. (South African Supreme Court of Appeal judicial decision regarding rights of asylum seekers prior to determination of refugee status) ReadingsCoreG. Goodwin-Gill and J. McAdam, The Refugee in International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 528–535. [G. Goodwin-Gill, The Refugee in International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 324–332]. S. Legomsky, ‘An Asylum Seeker’s Bill of Rights in a Non-Utopian World’, Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 14 (2000), p. 619.

About the Reader

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

Soft Law
UNHCR EXCOM, Conclusion No. 8 ‘Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-Second Session’, Supplement No. 12, A/32/12/Add.1, para. 53(6)(e).

UNHCR Documents
UNHCR ‘Asylum Processes (Fair and Efficient Asylum Procedures)’, in Global Consultations on International Protection, 31 May 2001.

Cases
The Minister of Home Affairs v. Watchenuka, 10 November 2003. (South African Supreme Court of Appeal judicial decision regarding rights of asylum seekers prior to determination of refugee status)

Readings
Core
G. Goodwin-Gill and J. McAdam, The Refugee in International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 528–535. [G. Goodwin-Gill, The Refugee in International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 324–332].

S. Legomsky, ‘An Asylum Seeker’s Bill of Rights in a Non-Utopian World’, Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 14 (2000), p. 619.

Soft Law

Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-Second Session

UNHCR EXCOM, Conclusion No. 8 'Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-Second Session' Supplement No. 12, A/32/12/Add.1, para 53(6)(e).

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, paras. 189-194.

UNHCR Documents

Asylum Processes (Fair and Efficient Asylum Procedures)

UNHCR, 'Asylum Processes (Fair and Efficient Asylum Procedures)' in Global Consultations on International Protection (31 May 2001), UN Doc. EC/GC/01/12.

Cases

The Minister of Home Affairs v. Watchenuka

The Minister of Home Affairs v. Watchenuka 10/2003 (2003). (South African Supreme Court of Appeal judicial decision regarding rights of asylum seekers prior to determination of refugee status)

Readings

Core

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The Refugee in International Law

G. Goodwin-Gill and J. McAdam, The Refugee in International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 528–535. [G. Goodwin-Gill, The Refugee in International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 324–332].

An Asylum Seeker

S. Legomsky, 'An Asylum Seeker's Bill of Rights in a Non-Utopian World' (2000) 14 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 619