Netherlands

Annual Reports 199
Case Law 236
Commentaries 5
Comments on Concluding Observations 2
Comments on National Legislation 3
Compilations 2
Concluding Observations 18
Country News 122
Country Profiles 3
Country Reports 88
Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae 17
Decisions 2
Handbooks/Manuals 7
Legal Articles/Analyses/Commentaries 13
Legislative History / Travaux Préparatoires 12
Maps 7
Memoranda of Understanding 1
Mission Reports 3
Multilateral Treaties/Agreements 3
National Legislation 8
National Legislation Compilations/Analyses 2
Policy/Position Papers 2
Query Responses 63
Regional Legislation 1
Regional Reports 16
Research, Background and Discussion Papers 2
Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations 20
Speeches/Statements 1
States Parties Reports 38
Statistics 1
Thematic Reports 30
UNHCR Country Updates 3

1951 Refugee Convention 5
Abduction 5
Access to procedures 18
Acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations 1
Administrative law 1
Adoption 2
Africans 1
Airports 1
Aliens 2
Anglican 5
Anti-terrorism law 5
Appeal / Right to appeal 3
Arbitrary arrest and detention 28
Armed forces / Military 6
Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 13
Article 1D 3
Assyrians 1
Asylum policy 30
Asylum-migration nexus 9
Asylum-seekers 80
Atheist / Agnostic 1
Bail 1
Baptist 6
Border conflict 1
Border controls 5
Border crossers 1
Bosnian 1
Buddhist 9
Burden-sharing and international co-operation 4
Calvinist 1
Catholic 10
Ceasefire 1
Cessation clauses 1
Chaldean 1
Changes of circumstances in home country 1
Child labour 14
Child prostitution 17
Child soldiers 3
Children's rights 61
Children-at-risk 32
Christian 10
Citizenship / Nationality law 7
Civil and political rights 4
Civilian character of asylum 1
Climate change (including environmental migrants) 1
Communal conflict / Social conflict 1
Complementary forms of protection 8
Confidentiality 1
Constitutional law 1
Convention against Torture (CAT) 3
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 3
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 4
Convention refugee 2
Corruption 10
Country of origin information (COI) 10
Coup d'état 1
Credibility assessment 20
Crimes against humanity 4
Criminal justice 18
Decision on admissibility 25
Demobilization / Disarmament 2
Democracy 3
Denial of nationality 3
Denial of refugee status 4
Deportation / Forcible return 43
Diplomatic assurances 1
Disappeared persons 19
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 65
Domestic violence 14
Drug trafficking 4
EU Qualification Directive 15
Economic, social and cultural rights 31
Effective protection 3
Effective remedy 15
Elections 16
Entry / Exit 1
Equal opportunities 1
Eritreans 1
Evangelical 1
Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 17
Exclusion clauses 20
Exhaustion of domestic remedies 4
Expedited procedures 1
Expulsion 32
Extradition 4
Extrajudicial executions 14
False documents 4
Family reunification 41
Female genital mutilation (FGM) 10
Flight by land, air or sea 1
Forced labour 41
Forced marriage 5
Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 81
Freedom of assembly and association 26
Freedom of conscience 1
Freedom of expression 74
Freedom of information 28
Freedom of movement 26
Freedom of religion 47
Freedom of speech 24
Fresh / New claim 2
Frisians 7
Gender discrimination 22
Gender mainstreaming 1
Gender-based persecution 11
Generalized violence 2
Genocide 12
Good governance 1
Good offices 7
Grounds for persecution 1
HIV and AIDS 1
Habeas corpus 1
Habitual residence 2
Hare Krishna 5
Harmful traditional practices 4
Hazara 1
Hindu 10
Honour killings 1
Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 5
Human Rights Council 7
Human rights activists 11
Human rights and fundamental freedoms 57
Human rights courts 6
Human rights law 4
Human rights monitors 4
Humanitarian assistance 5
Humanitarian protection (including tolerated stay) 2
Illegal entry 3
Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 17
Immigrants 16
Immigration Detention 35
Immigration control after entry 2
Immigration law 6
Impunity 4
Independence of judiciary 1
Indigenous persons 1
Integration 9
Internal armed conflict 12
Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 15
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 10
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CPED) 1
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) 2
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 2
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) 5
International armed conflict 1
International courts and tribunals 32
International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 4
International protection 6
Involuntary repatriation 2
Iranians 2
Jehovah's Witness 1
Jew 18
Jurisdiction 5
Koreans 1
Kosovar 2
Kurd 2
Law of the sea 1
Legal representation / Legal aid 13
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 38
Livelihoods 4
Lutheran 5
Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims 1
Maternal and child health care 4
Mental health 5
Mentally disadvantaged persons 1
Migrant rights 15
Migrants 41
Military operations 1
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 6
Minorities 40
Minority rights 9
Moluccans 1
Multiple nationality 1
Muslim 21
National security / Public order 14
Naturalization 3
Nepalis 1
New Life Church 1
Non-refoulement 23
Non-state agents of persecution 1
Older persons 1
Opposition 2
Orthodox Christian 1
Palestinian 8
Passports 1
Peace agreements 1
Peace process 4
Peacekeeping 1
Pentecostal 1
Persecution based on nationality 1
Persecution based on political opinion 14
Persecution of family members 3
Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 29
Persons with disabilities 11
Piracy 4
Poles 1
Police 11
Political parties 3
Political situation 1
Polygamy 1
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 2
Pre-trial detention 2
Prevention of discrimination 10
Prison or detention conditions 32
Proof of nationality 5
Prosecution vs persecution 7
Prostitution / Commercial sex work 23
Protection of civilian persons in time of war 1
Protestant 11
Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 3
Public health 6
Racial / Ethnic persecution 13
Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 7
Reception 22
Reconciliation 1
Refoulement 27
Refugee / Asylum law 10
Refugee camps 2
Refugee identity documents 3
Refugee seamen 2
Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 22
Refugee travel documents / CTDs 1
Refugees 63
Refugees sur place 2
Regional instruments 19
Registration 5
Reintegration 2
Rejected asylum-seekers 13
Rejection at border 1
Religious discrimination 35
Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 18
Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 4
Resettlement 18
Residence permits / Residency 27
Return conditions 9
Returnees 5
Right to a nationality 6
Right to development 1
Right to education 19
Right to employment 7
Right to family life 33
Right to health 6
Right to justice 5
Right to leave 1
Right to liberty and security 9
Right to life 5
Right to registration at birth 4
Right to return 4
Right to seek asylum 7
Right to self-determination 2
Rights of non-citizens 10
Roma 9
Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 17
Russians 1
Safe country of origin 6
Safe third country 14
Salafi 1
Sale of children 2
Sami 1
Sanctions 1
Scientologist 1
Secondary movement 1
Security forces 9
Security situation 11
Serb 1
Serious non-political crime 2
Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 34
Sexual and reproductive rights 3
Sharia law 1
Shia 1
Sikh 3
Single procedure 3
Sinhalese 1
Smuggling of persons 1
Social group discrimination 15
Social group persecution 9
Somalis 5
Spontaneous return 3
Standard of proof 1
State of emergency 1
State protection 3
Statelessness 23
Statelessness Determination Procedures 5
Sunni 1
Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 23
Suspensive effect 1
Tajik 1
Tamil 1
Temporary protection 3
Terrorism 48
Threats / Intimidation 2
Tibetan 1
Tigreans 1
Torture 11
Trafficking in persons 87
Transgression of social / cultural norms 1
Travel documents 3
Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 4
Turks 1
UNRWA 3
Uighur 1
Unaccompanied / Separated children 35
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 12
Visas 7
Voluntary repatriation 3
War crimes 26
Well-founded fear of persecution 5
Witnesses 7
Women's rights 42
Women-at-risk 25
Yazīdī 1

UNHCR is not responsible for the content and availability of non-UNHCR websites. Content displays in a new window.

Filter:

Showing 21-30 of 930 results

Proposed Decree of …., containing integration requirements for the granting of Dutch citizenship (Naturalization Test Decree 2021) 30 November 2020 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Comments on National Legislation
Observations to Proposed amendments to the Dutch Aliens Decree in relation to arranging the registration phase, the cancellation of the first hearing in the general asylum procedure and the implementation of several technical amendments 18 November 2020 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Comments on National Legislation
Submission by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in case numbers 202003129/1/V2 and 202004875/1/V2 before the Council of State 17 November 2020 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae
Applicant v. State Secretary for Security and Justice 19 October 2020 \| Judicial Body: Netherlands, The: The Hague District Court \| Document type: Case Law \| Topic(s): Housing, land and property rights (HLP) - Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures - Right to education \| Countries: Bulgaria - Netherlands - Syrian Arab Republic
Rechtbank Den Haag, 24-08-2020 / NL20.6600 decision not final 24 August 2020 \| Judicial Body: Netherlands, The: Amsterdam District Court \| Document type: Case Law \| Topic(s): Palestinian \| Countries: Netherlands - Palestine, State of
CASE OF S.A. v. THE NETHERLANDS (Application no. 49773/15) Relying on Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment) and Article 13 (right to an effective remedy), the applicant complained that if removed to Sudan he would be at risk of forced recruitment, persecution because he belonged to a non-Arab ethnic group from Darfur, and more generally, on account of the humanitarian situation in Sudan as a result of the conflict in Darfur. No violation of Article 3 – in the event of the applicant’s removal to Sudan No violation of Article 13 taken together with Article 3 2 June 2020 \| Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights \| Document type: Case Law \| Legal Instrument: 1950 European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) \| Topic(s): Effective remedy - Expulsion - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Racial / Ethnic persecution - Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness \| Countries: Netherlands - Sudan
CASE OF A.S.N. AND OTHERS v. THE NETHERLANDS (Applications nos. 68377/17 and 530/18) Art 3 ECHR • Expulsion • No risk of ill-treatment in case of removal of Afghan Sikhs to Afghanistan • Adequate assessment of the risks by the domestic authorities • No compelling humanitarian grounds against removal. See also joint partly dissenting opinion on the assessment by the domestic authorities of the foreseeable consequences of the applications to Afghanistan. 25 February 2020 \| Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights \| Document type: Case Law \| Legal Instrument: 1950 European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) \| Topic(s): Expulsion - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures - Sikh \| Countries: Afghanistan - Netherlands
Options Paper 2: Options for governments on open reception and alternatives to detention (first published 2015, revised version 2020) 2020 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Thematic Reports
Submission by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the case of M.J. v. the Netherlands (application no. 49259/18) before the European Court of Human Rights 6 December 2019 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae
USING CRIMINAL LAW TO RESTRICT THE WORK OF NGOS SUPPORTING REFUGEES AND OTHER MIGRANTS IN COUNCIL OF EUROPE MEMBER STATES December 2019 \| Publisher: Council of Europe \| Document type: Thematic Reports

Search Refworld

by keyword

and / or country

Advanced Search | Search Tips