Case Law

29 June 2007 | Judicial Body: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Topic(s): Arbitrary arrest and detention - Military law - Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription - Persecution based on political opinion - Right to employment - Social group persecution | Countries: Australia - Israel

25 June 2007 | Judicial Body: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Topic(s): Arbitrary arrest and detention - Country of origin information (COI) - Falun Gong - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Passports - Persecution based on political opinion - Right to employment | Countries: Australia - China

25 May 2007 | Judicial Body: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Jehovah's Witness - Persecution based on political opinion - Religious discrimination - Religious persecution (including forced conversion) - Right to employment - State protection | Countries: Australia - Lebanon

15 May 2007 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: Refugee Status Appeals Authority | Topic(s): Christian - Country of origin information (COI) - Credibility assessment - Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity - Messianic Jews - Non-state agents of persecution - Racial / Ethnic persecution - Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures - Religious discrimination - Religious persecution (including forced conversion) - Right to employment - State protection - Statelessness - Withdrawal of nationality | Countries: Israel - New Zealand

15 May 2007 | Judicial Body: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Topic(s): Economic, social and cultural rights - Extreme poverty - Persecution based on political opinion - Right to employment - Single heads of household - Social group persecution - Women-at-risk | Countries: Australia - Viet Nam

19 March 2007 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: Refugee Status Appeals Authority | Topic(s): Changes of circumstances in home country - Christian - Country of origin information (COI) - Credibility assessment - Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Racial / Ethnic persecution - Religious persecution (including forced conversion) - Right to employment - State protection - Uighur | Countries: Kyrgyzstan - New Zealand

9 March 2007 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: Refugee Status Appeals Authority | Topic(s): Arbitrary arrest and detention - Country of origin information (COI) - Credibility assessment - Family law - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Persecution based on political opinion - Polygamy - Prison or detention conditions - Prosecution vs persecution - Right to employment - Right to family life - Unlawful departure | Countries: China - New Zealand

7 March 2007 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: Refugee Status Appeals Authority | Topic(s): Benefit of the doubt - Country of origin information (COI) - Credibility assessment - Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity - Housing, land and property rights (HLP) - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Non-state agents of persecution - Racial / Ethnic persecution - Right to education - Right to employment - Right to health - Roma - Witnesses | Countries: New Zealand - Slovakia

26 February 2007 | Judicial Body: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Jehovah's Witness - Persecution based on political opinion - Religious persecution (including forced conversion) - Right to employment | Countries: Australia - Lebanon

15 February 2007 | Judicial Body: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Topic(s): Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) - Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity - Right to employment - Social group persecution | Countries: Australia - Philippines