Adjudication of asylum claims (refugee status determination / asylum procedures) / Social group persecution

18 February 2010 | Judicial Body: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Abduction - Country of origin information (COI) - Effective protection - Grounds for persecution - Non-state agents of persecution - Persecution based on political opinion - Social group persecution - State protection | Countries: Australia - Colombia

18 February 2010 | Judicial Body: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Abduction - Country of origin information (COI) - Effective protection - Grounds for persecution - Non-state agents of persecution - Persecution based on political opinion - Social group persecution - State protection | Countries: Australia - Colombia

23 November 2009 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: Refugee Status Appeals Authority | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Afro-Colombians - Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements - Economic, social and cultural rights - Human rights activists - Mental health - Non-state agents of persecution - Persecution based on political opinion - Racial / Ethnic persecution - Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) - Social group persecution - Women-at-risk | Countries: Colombia - New Zealand

The case summary in English has been prepared in the framework of the Knowledge-Based Harmonisation of European Asylum Practices Project (2010-2012), co-financed by the European Refugee Fund.

16 February 2009 | Judicial Body: Spain: Tribunal Supremo | Document type: Case Law | Countries: Colombia - Spain

27 June 2008 | Judicial Body: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements - Child soldiers - Children-at-risk - Country of origin information (COI) - Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription - Non-state agents of persecution - Persecution based on political opinion - Social group persecution | Countries: Australia - Colombia

25 October 2007 | Judicial Body: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Credibility assessment - Non-state agents of persecution - Right to employment - Social group persecution - Transgression of social / cultural norms | Countries: Australia - Colombia

Application for judicial review.

16 March 2007 | Judicial Body: Australia: Federal Magistrates Court | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Persecution of family members - Social group persecution | Countries: Australia - Colombia

12 January 2007 | Publisher: United States Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services | Document type: Memoranda

(1) The members of a particular social group must share a common, immutable characteristic, which may be an innate one, such as sex, color, or kinship ties, or a shared past experience, such as former military leadership or land ownership, but it must be one that members of the group either cannot change, or should not be required to change, because it is fundamental to their individual identities or consciences. Matter of Acosta, 19 I&N Dec. 211(BIA 1985), followed.
(2) The social visibility of the members of a claimed social group is an important consideration in identifying the existence of a 'particular social group' for the purpose of determining whether a person qualifies as a refugee. (3) The group of 'former noncriminal drug informants working against the Cali drug cartel' does not have the requisite social visibility to constitute a 'particular social group.'

15 June 2006 | Judicial Body: United States Board of Immigration Appeals | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Deportation / Forcible return - Non-state agents of persecution - Social group persecution | Countries: Colombia - United States of America

Petition for Review of a Decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals.

20 April 2006 | Judicial Body: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Social group persecution | Countries: Colombia - United States of America