Case Law
- Canada: Court of Appeal for Ontario 3
- Canada: Courts of Appeal 3
- Canada: Federal Court 700
- Canada: Federal Court of Appeal 91
- Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada 124
- Canada: Provincial / Territorial Superior Courts 1
- Canada: Supreme Court 51
- Canada: Supreme Court of British Columbia 1
- Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights 1
- Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) 5
- New Zealand: Refugee Status Appeals Authority 1
- UN Commission on Human Rights 1
- UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) 24
- UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) 2
- UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) 26
- United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit 1
- United States District Courts 1
- United States Supreme Court 1
- 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
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Francis Ojo Ogunrinde v. Canada (Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness; Minister of Citizenship and Immigration)
Application for judicial review of decision which denied Pre-Removal Risk Assessment. Application granted on basis that treatment of evidence was unreasonable. 15 June 2012 | Judicial Body: Canada: Federal Court | Topic(s): Credibility assessment - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) | Countries: Canada - Nigeria |
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Saleem v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration)
Application for review of decision of the Immigration and Refugee Board. Application granted on basis that the Boards IFA finding was unreasonable. 8 June 2012 | Judicial Body: Canada: Federal Court | Topic(s): Criminal justice - Honour killings - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) | Countries: Canada - Pakistan |
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Jonatan Guzman Portillo v. Minister of Citizenship and Immigration
4 June 2012 | Judicial Body: Canada: Federal Court | Topic(s): Gang related violence | Countries: Canada - El Salvador |
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Cruz v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration)
Application for review of decision of Immigration and Refugee Board regarding applicant and two minor children. Application granted on basis that the Board failed to properly analyse childrens situation with respect to the availability of state protection in Mexico. 30 May 2012 | Judicial Body: Canada: Federal Court | Topic(s): Credibility assessment - Domestic violence - State protection | Countries: Canada - Mexico |
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Pathmanathan v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration)
Application for review of decision of the Immigration and Refugee Board. Application granted on basis that Board failed to address forwardlooking risk and the assess the independent evidence to support such claim. 3 May 2012 | Judicial Body: Canada: Federal Court | Topic(s): Credibility assessment - Persecution based on political opinion - Tamil | Countries: Canada - Sri Lanka |
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Profitt v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration)
Application for review of decision of the Immigration and Refugee Board. Application granted on basis that the Board failed to provide adequate reasons regarding conclusion of exclusion under Article 1F(b) and to not follow the Jayasekara doctrine. 30 April 2012 | Judicial Body: Canada: Federal Court | Topic(s): Domestic violence - Exclusion clauses - Gender-based persecution - Serious non-political crime | Countries: Canada - Guyana |
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Talo v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration)
Application for review of decision of the Immigration and Refugee Board. Application granted on basis that decision was made in reviewable error for two reasons: no proper application was conducted of the Chairpersons Gender Guidelines, and no fair analysis was given to available evidence. 24 April 2012 | Judicial Body: Canada: Federal Court | Topic(s): Child prostitution - Domestic violence - Gender-based persecution - State protection - Trafficking in persons | Countries: Albania - Canada |
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M.P.W. v. Canada
13 April 2012 | Judicial Body: UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) | Countries: Canada - Mexico |
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Canada (Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness) v. X
13 April 2012 | Judicial Body: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Countries: Canada - Sri Lanka - Thailand |
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Teweldbrhan v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration)
Application for review of two decisions of the Immigration and Refugee Board. Review granted on basis the Board's finding was unreasonable as it lacked due regard to Ugandas decision to grant refugee status to the applicants and irrelevant and credibility findings were found for one applicant. 29 March 2012 | Judicial Body: Canada: Federal Court | Countries: Canada - Eritrea |
