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II.2.1.1.2 Owing to fear, is unable or unwilling to avail self of protection of country of nationality

Soft Law

  1. 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. 97–100.

Editor’s Note

See Section II.2.1.4 concerning the nexus between the unavailability of state protection and the existence of a Convention ground.

 II.2.1.1.2 Owing to Fear Is Unable or Unwilling to Avail Self of Protection of Country of NationalityII.2.1.1.2 Owing to Fear Is Unable or Unwilling to Avail Self of Protection of Country of Nationality