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#IBelong Campaign Update, April-June 2022 5 August 2022 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Thematic Reports
UNHCR Analysis of the Legality and Appropriateness of the Transfer of Asylum- Seekers under the UK-Rwanda arrangement 8 June 2022 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Comments on National Legislation
SMO & KSP (Civil status documentation; article 15) Iraq CG [2022] UKUT 00110 (IAC) This decision replaces all existing country guidance on Iraq. 22 April 2022 \| Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) \| Document type: Case Law \| Legal Instrument: 2011 Recast Qualification Directive (EU) \| Topic(s): EU Qualification Directive - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Kurd - Travel documents \| Countries: Iraq - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
KM (exclusion; Article 1F(a); Article 1F(b)) Democratic Republic of Congo 1. This decision considers whether the appellant should be excluded from the protection of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (‘the Convention’) because there are serious reasons for considering that he committed crimes against humanity (Article 1F(a)) or in the alternative a serious non-political crime (Article 1F(b)) during his service in the Police d’Intervention Rapide (PIR) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). 9 March 2022 \| Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) \| Document type: Case Law \| Legal Instrument: 1951 Refugee Convention \| Topic(s): 1951 Refugee Convention - Crimes against humanity - Exclusion clauses - International criminal law - Serious non-political crime \| Countries: Congo, Democratic Republic of the - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
NB and AB (C-349/20) v SSHD (UK) This request for a preliminary ruling concerns the interpretation of Article 12(1)(a) of Council Directive 2004/83/EC of 29 April 2004 on minimum standards for the qualification and status of third country nationals or stateless persons as refugees or as persons who otherwise need international protection and the content of the protection granted (OJ 2004 L 304, p. 12). 3 March 2022 \| Judicial Body: European Union: Court of Justice of the European Union \| Document type: Case Law \| Legal Instrument: 2004 Qualification Directive (EU) \| Topic(s): Article 1D - Palestinian - Persons with disabilities - Statelessness - UNRWA \| Countries: Lebanon - Palestine, State of - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
THE QUEEN, on the application of SB (a child, by his litigation friend Roxanne Nanton of the Refugee Council) Claimant - and - ROYAL BOROUGH OF KENSINGTON & CHELSEA Defendant The issue in the case focuses on the Defendant's determination of whether the Claimant is a child, as the effect of such a finding has an impact on a number of aspects of how he will be treated within the United Kingdom. The precise terms of the issue are themselves disputed: (1) The Claimant submits that his case is a challenge to the lawfulness of the decision of the Defendant, on 11 June 2021 ["the June determination"], that he was not a child. (2) The Defendant argues that these proceedings are, in fact, about their refusal to reassess the 11 June determination at some later date. 17 February 2022 \| Judicial Body: United Kingdom: High Court (England and Wales) \| Document type: Case Law \| Topic(s): Children-at-risk - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) \| Countries: South Sudan - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
OA (Somalia) Somalia CG [2022] UKUT 00033 (IAC) 1. In an Article 3 "living conditions" case, there must be a causal link between the Secretary of State's removal decision and any "intense suffering" feared by the returnee. This includes a requirement for temporal proximity between the removal decision and any "intense suffering" of which the returnee claims to be at real risk. This reflects the requirement in Paposhvili [2017] Imm AR 867 for intense suffering to be "serious, rapid and irreversible" in order to engage the returning State's obligations under Article 3 ECHR. A returnee fearing "intense suffering" on account of their prospective living conditions at some unknown point in the future is unlikely to be able to attribute responsibility for those living conditions to the Secretary of State, for to do so would be speculative. 2 February 2022 \| Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) \| Document type: Case Law \| Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) \| Countries: Somalia - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
MA & Anor, R (On the Application Of) v Coventry City Council & Anor [2022] EWHC 98 (Admin) 19 January 2022 \| Judicial Body: United Kingdom: High Court (England and Wales) \| Document type: Case Law \| Topic(s): Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Immigration Detention \| Countries: Iran, Islamic Republic of - Kuwait - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
UNHCR Updated Observations on the Nationality and Borders Bill, as amended January 2022 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Comments on National Legislation
UNHCR Observations on the Nationality and Borders Bill, Bill 141, 2021-22 October 2021 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Comments on National Legislation

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