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The Refworld legal collection has been designed primarily as a tool for disseminating and promoting (international) law relating to refugees, asylum seekers, stateless persons and other persons of concern to UNHCR.

UNHCR staff, refugee lawyers, all those involved with refugee-status determination within Governments, and others concerned with the rights of refugees and asylum seekers, can find a wealth of relevant documents in the collection. Included in the collection is a unique jurisprudence collection, covering more than 40 national jurisdictions, and a vast amount of international judgments and decisions from the United Nations, the European Court of Human Rights and other international and regional courts. A comprehensive collection of international instruments relating to refugees and human rights, with the most recent lists of States Parties to key conventions, is also available. The legislation collection, contains national and international legislation relevant in assessing asylum claims and is the largest collection of its kind. Finally, Refworld contains many special agreements, such as memoranda of understanding, host-country agreements and voluntary repatriation agreements.

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JA (child – risk of persecution) Nigeria

20 December 2016 | Publisher: United Kingdom: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) | Document type: Case Law

R (on the application of ZM and SK) v The London Borough of Croydon (Dental age assessment)

20 December 2016 | Publisher: United Kingdom: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) | Document type: Case Law

Security Council resolution 2328 (2016) [on humanitarian evacuations in Aleppo, Syrian Arab Republic]

19 December 2016 | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

Security Council resolution 2329 (2016) [on extension of the terms of office of permanent judges, Prosecutor and President of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)]

19 December 2016 | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its sixty-eighth session : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

19 December 2016 | Publisher: UN General Assembly | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

Criminal accountability of United Nations officials and experts on mission : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

19 December 2016 | Publisher: UN General Assembly | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

Responsibility of States for internationally wrongful acts : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

19 December 2016 | Publisher: UN General Assembly | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

Khlaifia and Others v. Italy

15 December 2016 | Publisher: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights | Document type: Case Law

Regional confidence-building measures : activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

15 December 2016 | Publisher: UN General Assembly | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

Countering the threat posed by improvised explosive devices : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

15 December 2016 | Publisher: UN General Assembly | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

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