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International Protection Considerations with Regard to People Fleeing Somalia

September 2022 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country/Situation Specific Position Papers

Good Practices Paper - Action 1: Resolving Existing Major Situations of Statelessness

16 August 2022 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Thematic Reports

Juicio de Amparo Indirecto 847/2021 Expediente Auxiliar 130/2022-I

4 August 2022 | Judicial Body: Mexico: Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Internally displaced persons (IDPs) | Countries: Mexico

Serving and Protecting Together: IOM/UNHCR Framework of Engagement

30 June 2022 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Memoranda of Understanding

E 2372/2021-17

In it’s judgement E 2372/2021 issued 7 October 2021, the Constitutional Court ruled that due to “UNHCR International Protection Considerations with Regard to People Fleeing the Republic of Iraq” from May 2019, Sunni Arab men and boys of fighting age, who lived in an area under ISIS control and/or where ISIS maintains a presence and women and children associated with real or perceived ISIS members on account of their family or tribal relations meet a specific risk profile as they are under general suspicion of supporting ISIS. Therefore, people fulfilling these characteristics are likely in need of international refugee protection, depending on the individual circumstances of the case. Referring to the UNHCR International Protection Considerations as well as the “EASO Country Guidance: Iraq” from January 2021 the Constitutional Court ruled that the Federal Administrative Court must duly take into consideration the individual situation of the complainant against the backdrop of the specific risk profile in case the complainant has put forward fear of persecution because of the affiliation to the risk profile in a substantiated way. In the present case the Federal Administrative Court assumed that the alleged threat by Shiite militias was due to the battles between ISIS, militias and Iraqi units at that time and has not been directed against the complainant or his family directly. It denied an individual persecution without considering that the complainant – a Sunni Arab of fighting age, who lived in an area under ISIS control – was meeting a specific risk profile. The Federal Administrative Court’s findings were thus found to be arbitrary by the Constitutional Court.

27 January 2022 | Judicial Body: Austria: Constitutional Court of Austria (Verfassungsgerichtshof) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Armed forces / Military - Asylum-seekers - International armed conflict - Social group persecution | Countries: Austria - Iraq

Handbook for Interpreters in Asylum Procedures

2022 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Handbooks/Manuals

Supreme Administrative Court decision of 31 December 2021 - KHO:2021:195

31 December 2021 | Judicial Body: Finland: Supreme Administrative Court | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Christian - Refugees sur place - Religious persecution (including forced conversion) | Countries: Finland - Iraq

E4227/2021

Austrian Constitutional Court examined the international protection needs of a healthy man from Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover

16 December 2021 | Judicial Body: Austria: Constitutional Court of Austria (Verfassungsgerichtshof) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Asylum-seekers - Country of origin information (COI) - Non-refoulement | Countries: Afghanistan - Austria

Recommendations by UNHCR regarding the execution of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights in the cases of: Kebe and Others v. Ukraine (Appl. No. 12552/12), Nur Ahmed and Others v. Ukraine (Appl. No. 42779/12), Nur and Others v. Ukraine (Appl. No. 77647/11) and M.S. v. Slovakia and Ukraine (Appl. No. 17189/11)

25 November 2021 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

UNHCR Ukraine Legislative Updates October 2021

October 2021 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Thematic Reports

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