Burden / standard of proof / Country of origin information (COI)

16 September 2011 | Judicial Body: Australia: Federal Magistrates Court | Topic(s): Christian - Country of origin information (COI) - Religious persecution (including forced conversion) | Countries: Australia - Egypt

Heard at Field House on 29 June 2011. This guidance replaces that given in OM (Cuba returning dissident) Cuba [2004] UKIAT 00120 which is no longer to be regarded as providing country guidance.

26 August 2011 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Opposition - Persecution based on political opinion | Countries: Cuba - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

14 July 2011 | Judicial Body: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Topic(s): Chinese - Christian - Country of origin information (COI) - Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) - Racial / Ethnic persecution - Religious persecution (including forced conversion) | Countries: Australia - Indonesia

14 July 2011 | Judicial Body: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity - Housing, land and property rights (HLP) - Racial / Ethnic persecution - Right to education - Right to employment - Social group persecution | Countries: Australia - Fiji

13 July 2011 | Judicial Body: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Topic(s): Baganda - Country of origin information (COI) - Persecution based on political opinion - Racial / Ethnic persecution | Countries: Australia - Uganda

13 July 2011 | Judicial Body: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Topic(s): Christian - Country of origin information (COI) - Koreans - Mental health - Persecution based on political opinion - Racial / Ethnic persecution - Religious persecution (including forced conversion) | Countries: Australia - Kazakhstan

Heard at Field House on 29th & 30th September 2010.

11 July 2011 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) | Topic(s): Children's rights - Country of origin information (COI) - Domestic violence - Effective protection - Gender-based persecution - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Right to family life - Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) - Social group discrimination - Social group persecution - State protection - Women-at-risk | Countries: Bangladesh - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

7 July 2011 | Judicial Body: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Persecution based on political opinion - Persecution of family members - Racial / Ethnic persecution - Social group persecution - Uighur | Countries: Australia - China

30 June 2011 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: Immigration and Protection Tribunal | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Elections - Persecution based on political opinion - Persecution of family members | Countries: Iran, Islamic Republic of - New Zealand

Heard at Field House Determination on 18 to 20 January 2011. The following Country Guidance cases on Ethiopia are superseded or replaced, as the case may be, by the present determination: GG (Return – Eritrean) Ethiopia CG [2002] UKIAT 05996; NB (Mixed Ethnicity – Ethiopian – Eritrean) Ethiopia CG [2002] UKIAT 06526; AA (Children – Eritrean) Ethiopia CG [2002] UKIAT 06533; TG (Mixed Ethnicity) Ethiopia CG [2002] UKIAT 07289; and DA (Ethnicity – Eritrean – Country Conditions) Ethiopia CG [2004] UKIAT 00046. The case summary in English has been prepared in the framework of the Knowledge-Based Harmonisation of European Asylum Practices Project (2010-2012), co-financed by the European Refugee Fund.

30 June 2011 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Denial of nationality - Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity - Eritreans - Racial / Ethnic persecution - Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures - Returnees - Right to a nationality - Statelessness | Countries: Ethiopia