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UNHCR's Recommendations for the Finnish Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU) June 2019 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: General Comments/Recommendations
KHO:2019:23 12 February 2019 \| Judicial Body: Finland: Supreme Administrative Court \| Document type: Case Law \| Topic(s): Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription \| Countries: Finland - Turkey
Supreme Administrative Court decision of 7 February 2019 - KHO:2019:22 7 February 2019 \| Judicial Body: Finland: Supreme Administrative Court \| Document type: Case Law \| Topic(s): Changes of circumstances in home country - Mental health - Security situation \| Countries: Afghanistan - Finland - Iran, Islamic Republic of
Supreme Administrative Court decision of 2 November 2018 - KHO:2018:147 2 November 2018 \| Judicial Body: Finland: Supreme Administrative Court \| Document type: Case Law \| Topic(s): Armed forces / Military - Burden of proof - Exclusion clauses \| Countries: Finland - Syrian Arab Republic
Observations by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Regional Representation for Northern Europe: Draft Law Proposal of 5 October 2018 amending the Alien's Act of Finland 23 October 2018 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Comments on National Legislation
2018 Trafficking in Persons Report - Finland 28 June 2018 \| Publisher: United States Department of State \| Document type: Annual Reports
Freedom in the World 2018 - Finland 28 May 2018 \| Publisher: Freedom House \| Document type: Annual Reports
case nos. 17LY02181 – 17LY02184 situation in region and Kabul is likely to be qualified as situation of indiscriminate violence resulting from an internal armed conflict in light of subsidiary protection. In these conditions, the prefect had erred in applying the law by deciding that, instead of authorising to register the application in France, the applicant be transferred to Finland where this country had already rejected the asylum application, expelled and issue an entry ban against the applicant. 13 March 2018 \| Judicial Body: France: Cour administrative \| Document type: Case Law \| Legal Instrument: 1951 Refugee Convention \| Topic(s): Generalized violence - Internal armed conflict - Refoulement \| Countries: Afghanistan - Finland - France
Amnesty International Report 2017/18 - Finland 22 February 2018 \| Publisher: Amnesty International \| Document type: Annual Reports
In threat to sources, Finnish journalist's home searched 28 December 2017 \| Publisher: Reporters Without Borders \| Document type: Country News

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