Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae
Interventions before courts by UNHCR and other organizations are an important tool through which protection standards can be developed and a consistent application of refugee law fostered. Interventions before courts may take different forms, depending on the national or supranational context, including formal amicus curiae briefs, advisory opinions or letters to the court or parties involved, as well as public statements. Interventions by UNHCR are carried out in the exercise of its supervisory function.
Refworld is the repository of all interventions made by UNHCR in judicial proceedings before national and regional courts. They are organised in reverse-chronological order and, where available, are linked to the court decision in the case(s) at hand once adopted.
Refworld is the repository of all interventions made by UNHCR in judicial proceedings before national and regional courts. They are organised in reverse-chronological order and, where available, are linked to the court decision in the case(s) at hand once adopted.
- Access to procedures 2
- Agents of persecution 1
- Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 2
- Asylum policy 6
- Asylum-seekers 3
- Burden of proof 1
- Cancellation 1
- Cessation clauses 1
- Child soldiers 1
- Children-at-risk 5
- Combatants / Former combatants 1
- Criminal justice 1
- Deportation / Forcible return 2
- Domestic violence 9
- Effective protection 1
- Evangelical 1
- Exclusion clauses 9
- Expulsion 3
- Forced marriage 1
- Freedom of expression 1
- Freedom of speech 1
- Gang related violence 4
- Gender discrimination 1
- Gender-based persecution 3
- Illegal entry 4
- Immigration Detention 2
- Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 1
- Jehovah's Witness 1
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 1
- Mental health 1
- Mentally disadvantaged persons 1
- Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 3
- Non-refoulement 17
- Non-state agents of persecution 13
- Persecution based on political opinion 3
- Persecution of family members 2
- Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 1
- Political groups 1
- Polygamy 1
- Public health 1
- Refoulement 3
- Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 1
- Rejection at border 1
- Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 3
- Residence permits / Residency 1
- Right to seek asylum 5
- Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 4
- Safe third country 1
- Serious non-political crime 2
- Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 2
- Social group discrimination 1
- Social group persecution 23
- Standard of proof 1
- State protection 2
- Terrorism 1
- Unaccompanied / Separated children 1
- Well-founded fear of persecution 4
- Women-at-risk 5
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