Burden / standard of proof / Country of origin information (COI)

October 2013 | Publisher: Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre | Document type: Country Reports

4 April 2013 | Judicial Body: Italy: Italian Supreme Court (Corte Suprema di Cassazione) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Burden of proof - Country of origin information (COI) - Credibility assessment - Denial of refugee status - Generalized violence | Countries: Congo, Democratic Republic of the - Italy

December 2010 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country Briefing Folders

Petition for judicial review.

23 November 2010 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Session (Scotland) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Credibility assessment - Fresh / New claim - Persecution based on political opinion | Countries: Congo, Democratic Republic of the - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

28 June 2010 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: Refugee Status Appeals Authority | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Cessation clauses - Country of origin information (COI) - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Refugees | Countries: Congo, Democratic Republic of the - New Zealand

1 June 2010 | Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Expulsion - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Persecution based on political opinion - Refugees - Right to family life | Countries: Congo, Democratic Republic of the - Netherlands

23 April 2010 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: Refugee Status Appeals Authority | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Banyamulenge - Country of origin information (COI) - Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity - Public health - Racial / Ethnic persecution - Safe third country | Countries: Congo, Democratic Republic of the - New Zealand

12 April 2010 | Judicial Body: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Banyamulenge - Country of origin information (COI) - Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity - Racial / Ethnic persecution - Safe third country | Countries: Australia - Congo, Democratic Republic of the

Application for leave to apply for judicial review.

19 November 2009 | Judicial Body: Ireland: High Court | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Arbitrary arrest and detention - Country of origin information (COI) - Credibility assessment - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Opposition - Persecution based on political opinion - Political parties - Prison or detention conditions - Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) | Countries: Congo, Democratic Republic of the - Ireland

Heard at Field House on 30 June 2008. The country guidance in AB and DM (Risk Categories Reviewed – Tutsis Added) DRC CG [2005] UKAIT 00118 is confirmed subject to adding that members of the Hema tribe are likely to be treated by the authorities in the DRC in the same way as Tutsis and Rwandans and may be at risk of persecution on return to the Ituri region.

29 September 2008 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Asylum and Immigration Tribunal / Immigration Appellate Authority | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Hema - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Racial / Ethnic persecution - Rwandans - Tutsis | Countries: Congo, Democratic Republic of the - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland