g. Detention

  International Treaties Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, 28 July 1951, 189 U.N.T.S. 150. Art. 26, 31, 36Human Rights Committee, ‘General Comment No. 27, Freedom of Movement (Art.12)’, 2 November 1999.International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 16 December 1966, 999 U.N.T.S. 171, Art. 27.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.Soft Law‘Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of Their Liberty’, UN General Assembly Resolution, A/RES/45/113, 14 December 1990.Commission on Human Rights United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Deliberation No. 5, ‘Situation regarding immigrants and asylum seekers’, 28 December 1999, Annex II.‘Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment’, UN General Assembly Resolution, A/RES/43/173, 9 December 1988.UNHCR DocumentsUNHCR, ‘Guidelines on Applicable Criteria and Standards relating to the Detention of Asylum Seekers’, February 1999.UNHCR, ‘Detention of Asylum Seekers and Refugees: The Framework, the Problem and Recommended Practice’, June 1999.UNHCR EXCOM, 'Detention of Refugees and Asylum-Seekers', Conclusion No. 44 (XXXVII), 1986.UNHCR EXCOM, ‘Conclusion on International Protection’, Conclusion No. 85 (XLIX) – 1998.ReadingsCoreJ. Hathaway, ‘Freedom from arbitrary detention and penalization for illegal entry’, The Rights of Refugees under International Law. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 413–439.ExtendedAmnesty International, ‘Migration-Related Detention: A research guide on human rights standards relevant to the detention of migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees’, November 2007.  

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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




g. Detention

 

International Treaties

Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, 28 July 1951, 189 U.N.T.S. 150. Art. 26, 31, 36

Human Rights Committee, ‘General Comment No. 27, Freedom of Movement (Art.12)’, 2 November 1999.

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 16 December 1966, 999 U.N.T.S. 171, Art. 27.

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.

Soft Law
‘Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of Their Liberty’, UN General Assembly Resolution, A/RES/45/113, 14 December 1990.

Commission on Human Rights United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Deliberation No. 5, ‘Situation regarding immigrants and asylum seekers’, 28 December 1999, Annex II.

‘Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment’, UN General Assembly Resolution, A/RES/43/173, 9 December 1988.

UNHCR Documents
UNHCR, ‘Guidelines on Applicable Criteria and Standards relating to the Detention of Asylum Seekers’, February 1999.

UNHCR, ‘Detention of Asylum Seekers and Refugees: The Framework, the Problem and Recommended Practice’, June 1999.

UNHCR EXCOM, 'Detention of Refugees and Asylum-Seekers', Conclusion No. 44 (XXXVII), 1986.

UNHCR EXCOM, ‘Conclusion on International Protection’, Conclusion No. 85 (XLIX) – 1998.

Readings
Core

J. Hathaway, ‘Freedom from arbitrary detention and penalization for illegal entry’, The Rights of Refugees under International Law. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 413–439.

Extended
Amnesty International, ‘Migration-Related Detention: A research guide on human rights standards relevant to the detention of migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees’, November 2007.

 



Treaties

International

Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees

Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, 28 July 1951, 189 U.N.T.S. 150. Art. 26, 31, 36

General Comment No. 27, Freedom of Movement (Art.12)

Human Rights Committee, ‘General Comment No. 27, Freedom of Movement (Art.12)’, 2 November 1999.

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 16 December 1966, 999 U.N.T.S. 171, Art. 27.

Handbook on Procedures and Criteria for Determining Refugee Status under the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees

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.

Soft Law

Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of Their Liberty

‘Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of Their Liberty’, UN General Assembly Resolution, A/RES/45/113, 14 December 1990.

Situation regarding immigrants and asylum seekers

Commission on Human Rights United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Deliberation No. 5, ‘Situation regarding immigrants and asylum seekers’, 28 December 1999, Annex II.

Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment

Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment’, UN General Assembly Resolution, A/RES/43/173, 9 December 1988.

UNHCR Documents

Guidelines on Applicable Criteria and Standards relating to the Detention of Asylum Seekers

UNHCR, 'Guidelines on Applicable Criteria and Standards relating to the Detention of Asylum Seekers', 1999.

Detention of Asylum Seekers and Refugees: The Framework, the Problem and Recommended Practice

UNHCR, 'Detention of Asylum Seekers and Refugees: The Framework, the Problem and Recommended Practice', 4 June 1999.

Detention of Refugees and Asylum-Seekers

UNHCR EXCOM, ‘Detention of Refugees and Asylum-Seekers', Conclusion No. 44 (XXXVII) – 1986.

Conclusion on International Protection

UNHCR EXCOM, ‘Conclusion on International Protection’, Conclusion No. 85 (XLIX) – 1998.

Readings

Core

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Freedom from arbitrary detention and penalization for illegal entry

J. Hathaway, ‘Freedom from arbitrary detention and penalization for illegal entry’, The Rights of Refugees under International Law. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 413–439.

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Extended

Migration-Related Detention: A research guide on human rights standards relevant to the detention of migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees

Amnesty International, ‘Migration-Related Detention: A research guide on human rights standards relevant to the detention of migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees’, November 2007.