Case Law

Case Law includes national and international jurisprudential decisions. Administrative bodies and tribunals are included.

Abduction 3
Access to procedures 3
Acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations 6
Acts of persecution 3
Administrative courts 4
Agents of persecution 3
Ahmadis 2
Albanians 1
Alevis 1
Amish 1
Appeal / Right to appeal 15
Arbitrary arrest and detention 29
Armed forces / Military 15
Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 8
Arrival 1
Assyrians 2
Asylum policy 3
Asylum-migration nexus 1
Asylum-seekers 9
Benefit of the doubt 2
Blood feuds 5
Burden of proof 36
Catholic 3
Cessation clauses 6
Changes of circumstances in home country 16
Chechen 1
Child prostitution 1
Children's rights 17
Children-at-risk 30
Chinese 2
Christian 20
Citizenship / Nationality law 13
Combatants / Former combatants 7
Complementary forms of protection 32
Constitutional law 6
Convention against Torture (CAT) 5
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 3
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 5
Convention refugee 60
Corruption 6
Country of origin information (COI) 35
Credibility assessment 87
Crimes against humanity 77
Crimes against peace 2
Criminal justice 72
Croats 2
Cumulative grounds of persecution 4
Death penalty 13
Death squads 2
Decision on admissibility 5
Democracy 1
Denial of refugee status 4
Deportation / Forcible return 180
Diplomatic assurances 4
Diplomatic protection 1
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 10
Domestic violence 38
Drug trafficking 25
Economic, social and cultural rights 2
Effective protection 24
Effective remedy 10
Elections 1
Equality before the law 6
Evangelical 2
Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 100
Exclusion clauses 88
Exhaustion of domestic remedies 7
Expulsion 26
Extended definition 1
Extradition 8
Extreme poverty 1
False documents 2
Falun Gong 5
Family law 1
Family reunification 12
Female genital mutilation (FGM) 5
Flight by land, air or sea 1
Forced labour 1
Forced marriage 3
Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 98
Freedom of assembly and association 2
Freedom of conscience 3
Freedom of expression 29
Freedom of movement 2
Freedom of religion 7
Freedom of speech 26
Gang related violence 12
Gender discrimination 1
Gender-based persecution 17
Generalized violence 1
Genocide 3
Good governance 1
Grounds for persecution 16
HIV and AIDS 3
Habeas corpus 3
Hindu 1
Honour killings 1
Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 1
Human rights activists 1
Human rights and fundamental freedoms 10
Human rights law 1
Humanitarian protection (including tolerated stay) 2
Hutus 2
Illegal entry 5
Immigration Detention 14
Immigration law 4
Inclusion clauses 2
Independence of judiciary 9
Indigenous persons 1
Internal armed conflict 6
Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 61
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 2
International armed conflict 4
International criminal law 3
International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 14
International protection 3
Involuntary repatriation 1
Jehovah's Witness 1
Jew 2
Jurisdiction 9
Juvenile justice system 2
Karen 2
Koreans 1
Kurd 5
Legal representation / Legal aid 11
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 43
Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims 2
Mental health 8
Military courts 1
Military law 2
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 47
Minorities 3
Minority rights 1
Mormon 2
Multiple nationality 2
Muslim 5
National security / Public order 13
Naturalization 2
Non-refoulement 30
Non-state agents of persecution 60
Older persons 1
One-child policy / Family planning 1
Opposition 7
Oromo 1
Palestinian 6
Passports 2
Pentecostal 2
Persecution based on nationality 11
Persecution based on political opinion 144
Persecution of family members 12
Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 32
Persons not in need of international protection 8
Persons with disabilities 5
Physical harm 1
Police 20
Political asylum 6
Political groups 3
Political parties 10
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 5
Pre-entry procedures 1
Pre-trial detention 3
Prison or detention conditions 9
Proof of nationality 2
Prosecution vs persecution 30
Public health 22
Punjabis 13
Racial / Ethnic persecution 36
Refoulement 32
Refugee / Asylum law 7
Refugee camps 1
Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 18
Refugees 16
Refugees sur place 4
Rejected asylum-seekers 20
Religious discrimination 3
Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 55
Resettlement 2
Residence permits / Residency 13
Right to education 4
Right to employment 5
Right to family life 10
Right to food 1
Right to health 2
Right to justice 14
Right to liberty and security 23
Right to life 23
Right to return 2
Right to seek asylum 1
Right to self-determination 1
Roma 13
Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 61
Russians 2
Safe country of origin 2
Safe third country 30
Saharawis 1
Security forces 3
Security situation 3
Serb 1
Serious non-political crime 35
Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 23
Sexual and reproductive rights 2
Sharia law 1
Shia 4
Sikh 2
Single procedure 4
Smuggling of persons 7
Social group discrimination 8
Social group persecution 95
Standard of proof 20
State of emergency 1
State protection 118
Statelessness 7
Sur place persecution 10
Suspensive effect 2
Tamil 46
Terrorism 39
Threats / Intimidation 2
Tibetan 3
Torture 4
Trafficking in persons 5
Travel documents 1
Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 8
Tutsis 4
Unaccompanied / Separated children 15
Unlawful departure 5
Visas 9
Voluntary repatriation 1
War crimes 10
Well-founded fear of persecution 65
Withdrawal of nationality 1
Witnesses 6
Women's rights 3
Women-at-risk 21

1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 1

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Decision TB6-11632 (Jurisprudential Guide, in private) Heard at Refugee Appeals Division, Toronto, Ontario Jurisprudential Guide: Analysis of whether a person wanted by the authorities can exit China via an airport using a genuine passport. 30 November 2016 \| Judicial Body: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Topic(s): Credibility assessment - Falun Gong - Flight by land, air or sea \| Countries: Canada - China
Decision TB4-05778 (Jurisprudential Guide, in private), Heard at Refugee Appeals Division, Toronto, Ontario Whether a claimant/appellant who is a citizen of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) is deemed to be a citizen of the Republic of Korea (South Korea). 27 June 2016 \| Judicial Body: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Topic(s): Citizenship / Nationality law \| Countries: Canada - Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
Kanthasamy v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration) 10 December 2015 \| Judicial Body: Canada: Supreme Court \| Topic(s): Complementary forms of protection - Humanitarian protection (including tolerated stay) \| Countries: Canada - Sri Lanka
B010 v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration) 27 November 2015 \| Judicial Body: Canada: Supreme Court \| Topic(s): Asylum-seekers - Illegal entry - Immigration law - Smuggling of persons \| Countries: Canada - Cuba - Sri Lanka
R. v. Appulonappa 27 November 2015 \| Judicial Body: Canada: Supreme Court \| Topic(s): Asylum-seekers - Constitutional law - Criminal justice - Immigration law - Right to liberty and security - Smuggling of persons - Tamil \| Countries: Canada - Sri Lanka
Chaudhary v. Canada 20 October 2015 \| Judicial Body: Canada: Courts of Appeal \| Topic(s): Habeas corpus - Immigration Detention \| Countries: Cameroon - Canada - India - Italy
V.S. v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration) The determinative issue on this application concerns the Officer’s analysis of the evidence of hardship related to the Applicant’s claim to be a lesbian 7 October 2015 \| Judicial Body: Canada: Federal Court \| Topic(s): Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) - Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity \| Countries: Cameroon - Canada
Y v. Canada 7 August 2015 \| Judicial Body: UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) \| Topic(s): Arbitrary arrest and detention - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) - Right to liberty and security - Right to life \| Countries: Canada - Sri Lanka
Y.Z. v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration) 23 July 2015 \| Judicial Body: Canada: Federal Court \| Topic(s): Safe country of origin \| Countries: Canada
Minister of Citizenship and Immigration v. Aladar Racz and others 20 February 2015 \| Judicial Body: Canada: Federal Court \| Topic(s): Burden of proof - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Roma - State protection \| Countries: Canada - Hungary

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