Case Law

24 August 2011 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: Immigration and Protection Tribunal | Topic(s): Criminal justice - Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity - Hutus - Racial / Ethnic persecution - Right to justice - Social group persecution | Countries: New Zealand - Rwanda

14 July 2011 | Judicial Body: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity - Housing, land and property rights (HLP) - Racial / Ethnic persecution - Right to education - Right to employment - Social group persecution | Countries: Australia - Fiji

On appeal from the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) [2010] EWCA Civ 462.

13 July 2011 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Supreme Court | Topic(s): Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity - Religious discrimination - Right to employment - Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness - Terrorism | Countries: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

7 July 2011 | Judicial Body: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Topic(s): Credibility assessment - Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity - Koreans - Persecution based on political opinion | Countries: Australia - China

Heard at Field House Determination on 18 to 20 January 2011. The following Country Guidance cases on Ethiopia are superseded or replaced, as the case may be, by the present determination: GG (Return – Eritrean) Ethiopia CG [2002] UKIAT 05996; NB (Mixed Ethnicity – Ethiopian – Eritrean) Ethiopia CG [2002] UKIAT 06526; AA (Children – Eritrean) Ethiopia CG [2002] UKIAT 06533; TG (Mixed Ethnicity) Ethiopia CG [2002] UKIAT 07289; and DA (Ethnicity – Eritrean – Country Conditions) Ethiopia CG [2004] UKIAT 00046. 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.

30 June 2011 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Denial of nationality - Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity - Eritreans - Racial / Ethnic persecution - Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures - Returnees - Right to a nationality - Statelessness | Countries: Ethiopia

Application for judicial review.

27 June 2011 | Judicial Body: Australia: Federal Magistrates Court | Topic(s): Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity - Kurd - Racial / Ethnic persecution - Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures - Right to education - Right to health - Social group persecution - Statelessness - Statelessness | Countries: Australia - Iran, Islamic Republic of

On Petition for Review from the Board of Immigration Appeals.

20 May 2011 | Judicial Body: United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit | Topic(s): Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity - Racial / Ethnic persecution - Rights of non-citizens - Russians - Statelessness - Statelessness - Withdrawal of nationality | Countries: Estonia - United States of America

7 April 2011 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: Immigration and Protection Tribunal | Topic(s): Arbitrary arrest and detention - Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity - Opposition - Persecution based on political opinion - Racial / Ethnic persecution | Countries: Iran, Islamic Republic of - New Zealand

1 April 2011 | Judicial Body: International Court of Justice (ICJ) | Topic(s): Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity - Internally displaced persons (IDPs) - International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) - Jurisdiction | Countries: Georgia - Russian Federation

31 March 2011 | Judicial Body: Belgium: Conseil du Contentieux des Etrangers | Topic(s): Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity - Roma - Statelessness - Statelessness | Countries: Belgium