(c) Special Issues

  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, paras. 206-219.   UNHCR Documents UNHCR, 'Guidelines on Protection of Refugee Women', 1991, paras. 57-62. UNHCR, 'Gender Sensitive Techniques', 1991.   Readings Core Physicians for Human Rights, Medical Testimony on Victims of Torture:  A Physician's Guide to Political Asylum Cases (Boston, 1991).   Extended C. Rousseau, F. Crepeau, P. Foxen, and F. Houle, 'The Complexity of Determining Refugeehood: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of the Decision-making Process of the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board' (2002) 15 Journal of Refugee Studies 43. J. Herlihy, 'Evidentiary Assessment and Psychology Difficulties’, in G. Noll (ed.), Proof, Evidentiary Assessment and Credibility in Asylum Procedures (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2005), 123–140.  

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

(c) Special Issues

 

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, paras. 206-219.

 

UNHCR Documents

UNHCR, 'Guidelines on Protection of Refugee Women', 1991, paras. 57-62.

UNHCR, 'Gender Sensitive Techniques', 1991.

 

Readings

Core

Physicians for Human Rights, Medical Testimony on Victims of Torture:  A Physician's Guide to Political Asylum Cases (Boston, 1991).

 

Extended

C. Rousseau, F. Crepeau, P. Foxen, and F. Houle, 'The Complexity of Determining Refugeehood: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of the Decision-making Process of the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board' (2002) 15 Journal of Refugee Studies 43.

J. Herlihy, 'Evidentiary Assessment and Psychology Difficulties’, in G. Noll (ed.), Proof, Evidentiary Assessment and Credibility in Asylum Procedures (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2005), 123–140.

 



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, paras. 206-219.

UNHCR Documents

UNHCR Guidelines on Protection of Refugee Women

UNHCR, 'UNHCR Guidelines on Protection of Refugee Women', 1991, paras. 57-62.

Gender Sensitive Techniques

UNHCR, 'Gender Sensitive Techniques', 1991.

Readings

Core

Medical Testimony on Victims of Torture: A Physician's Guide to Political Asylum Cases

Physicians for Human Rights, Medical Testimony on Victims of Torture:  A Physician's Guide to Political Asylum Cases (Boston, 1991).

Extended

The Complexity of Determining Refugeehood: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of the Decision-making Process of the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board

C. Rousseau, F. Crepeau, P. Foxen, and F. Houle, 'The Complexity of Determining Refugeehood: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of the Decision-making Process of the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board' (2002) 15 Journal of Refugee Studies 43.

Evidentiary Assessment and Psychology Difficulties

J. Herlihy, 'Evidentiary Assessment and Psychology Difficulties’, in G. Noll (ed.), Proof, Evidentiary Assessment and Credibility in Asylum Procedures (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2005), 123–140.