Case Law
Case Law includes national and international jurisprudential decisions. Administrative bodies and tribunals are included.
- Canada: Court of Appeal for Ontario 2
- Canada: Courts of Appeal 3
- Canada: Federal Court 701
- Canada: Federal Court of Appeal 91
- Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada 120
- Canada: Provincial / Territorial Superior Courts 1
- Canada: Supreme Court 50
- Canada: Supreme Court of British Columbia 1
- Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights 1
- Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) 5
- New Zealand: Refugee Status Appeals Authority 1
- UN Commission on Human Rights 1
- UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) 24
- UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) 2
- UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) 24
- United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit 1
- United States District Courts 1
- United States Supreme Court 1
- Abduction 3
- Access to procedures 3
- Acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations 6
- Acts of persecution 3
- Administrative courts 5
- Agents of persecution 3
- Ahmadis 2
- Albanians 1
- Alevis 1
- Amish 1
- Appeal / Right to appeal 14
- Arbitrary arrest and detention 27
- Armed forces / Military 15
- Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 8
- Arrival 1
- Assyrians 2
- Asylum policy 3
- Asylum-migration nexus 1
- Asylum-seekers 9
- Benefit of the doubt 2
- Blood feuds 6
- Burden of proof 36
- Catholic 3
- Cessation clauses 5
- Changes of circumstances in home country 16
- Chechen 1
- Child prostitution 1
- Children's rights 16
- Children-at-risk 29
- Chinese 2
- Christian 20
- Citizenship / Nationality law 2
- Combatants / Former combatants 7
- Complementary forms of protection 32
- Constitutional law 5
- Convention against Torture (CAT) 5
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 3
- Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 5
- Convention refugee 60
- Corruption 6
- Country of origin information (COI) 35
- Credibility assessment 88
- Crimes against humanity 77
- Crimes against peace 2
- Criminal justice 72
- Croats 2
- Cumulative grounds of persecution 6
- Death penalty 13
- Death squads 2
- Decision on admissibility 5
- Democracy 1
- Denial of refugee status 4
- Deportation / Forcible return 181
- Diplomatic assurances 4
- Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 10
- Domestic violence 38
- Drug trafficking 25
- Economic, social and cultural rights 2
- Effective protection 24
- Effective remedy 10
- Elections 1
- Equality before the law 5
- Evangelical 2
- Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 102
- Exclusion clauses 88
- Exhaustion of domestic remedies 7
- Expulsion 26
- Extended definition 1
- Extradition 8
- Extreme poverty 1
- False documents 2
- Falun Gong 4
- Family law 1
- Family reunification 11
- Female genital mutilation (FGM) 5
- Forced labour 1
- Forced marriage 4
- Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 98
- Freedom of assembly and association 2
- Freedom of conscience 3
- Freedom of expression 28
- Freedom of movement 2
- Freedom of religion 7
- Freedom of speech 26
- Gang related violence 12
- Gender discrimination 1
- Gender-based persecution 19
- Generalized violence 1
- Genocide 3
- Good governance 1
- Grounds for persecution 16
- HIV and AIDS 3
- Habeas corpus 2
- Hindu 1
- Honour killings 1
- Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 1
- Human rights activists 1
- Human rights and fundamental freedoms 10
- Human rights law 1
- Humanitarian protection (including tolerated stay) 2
- Hutus 2
- Illegal entry 5
- Immigration Detention 14
- Immigration law 5
- Inclusion clauses 2
- Independence of judiciary 9
- Indigenous persons 1
- Internal armed conflict 6
- Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 36
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 1
- International armed conflict 4
- International criminal law 3
- International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 14
- International protection 3
- Involuntary repatriation 1
- Jehovah's Witness 1
- Jew 2
- Jurisdiction 9
- Juvenile justice system 2
- Karen 2
- Koreans 1
- Kurd 5
- Legal representation / Legal aid 11
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 37
- Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims 2
- Mental health 8
- Military courts 1
- Military law 2
- Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 47
- Minorities 3
- Minority rights 1
- Mormon 2
- Multiple nationality 4
- Muslim 5
- National security / Public order 13
- Naturalization 2
- Non-refoulement 30
- Non-state agents of persecution 62
- Older persons 1
- One-child policy / Family planning 1
- Opposition 7
- Oromo 1
- Palestinian 6
- Passports 1
- Pentecostal 2
- Persecution based on nationality 13
- Persecution based on political opinion 146
- Persecution of family members 13
- Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 26
- Persons not in need of international protection 8
- Persons with disabilities 5
- Police 8
- Political asylum 6
- Political groups 3
- Political parties 10
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 5
- Pre-entry procedures 1
- Pre-trial detention 3
- Prison or detention conditions 9
- Proof of nationality 2
- Prosecution vs persecution 30
- Public health 22
- Punjabis 1
- Racial / Ethnic persecution 39
- Refoulement 31
- Refugee / Asylum law 7
- Refugee camps 1
- Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 12
- Refugees 17
- Refugees sur place 4
- Rejected asylum-seekers 20
- Religious discrimination 3
- Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 40
- Resettlement 2
- Residence permits / Residency 13
- Right to education 4
- Right to employment 5
- Right to family life 10
- Right to food 1
- Right to health 2
- Right to justice 14
- Right to liberty and security 21
- Right to life 22
- Right to return 2
- Right to seek asylum 1
- Right to self-determination 1
- Roma 13
- Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 61
- Russians 2
- Rwandans 2
- SGBV 23
- Safe third country 28
- Saharawis 1
- Security forces 3
- Security situation 3
- Serb 1
- Serious non-political crime 35
- Sexual and reproductive rights 2
- Sharia law 1
- Shia 4
- Sikh 2
- Single procedure 4
- Smuggling of persons 7
- Social group discrimination 8
- Social group persecution 95
- Standard of proof 20
- State of emergency 1
- State protection 105
- Statelessness 7
- Sur place persecution 10
- Suspensive effect 2
- Tamil 46
- Terrorism 39
- Threats / Intimidation 2
- Tibetan 3
- Torture 4
- Trafficking in persons 5
- Travel documents 1
- Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 8
- Tutsis 7
- Unaccompanied / Separated children 15
- Unlawful departure 5
- Visas 9
- Voluntary repatriation 1
- War crimes 10
- Well-founded fear of persecution 65
- Withdrawal of nationality 1
- Witnesses 6
- Women's rights 3
- Women-at-risk 22
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