Case Law
- Australia: Federal Court 7
- Australia: Federal Magistrates Court 2
- Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal 10
- Canada: Federal Court 9
- Canada: Federal Court of Appeal 7
- Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada 2
- Colombia: Consejo de Estado 13
- Colombia: Corte Constitucional 82
- Colombia: Corte Suprema de Justicia 3
- Colombia: Juzgado Segundo Penal Municipal 1
- Costa Rica: Corte Suprema de Justicia 8
- Council of Europe: European Commission on Human Rights 2
- Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights 1
- Ecuador: Corte Constitucional 5
- European Union: Court of Justice of the European Union 1
- France: Commission des Recours des Réfugiés (CRR) 2
- Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) 8
- Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACrtHR) 19
- International Court of Justice (ICJ) 2
- Netherlands, The: The Hague District Court 1
- New Zealand: Immigration and Protection Tribunal 1
- New Zealand: Refugee Status Appeals Authority 7
- Spain: Tribunal Supremo 3
- UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) 1
- UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) 6
- United Kingdom: Asylum and Immigration Tribunal / Immigration Appellate Authority 13
- United Kingdom: Court of Appeal (England and Wales) 4
- United States Attorney-General 2
- United States Board of Immigration Appeals 3
- United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit 8
- United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit 2
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit 1
- United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit 4
- United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit 4
- United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit 1
- 1951 Refugee Convention 1
- Abduction 6
- Administrative law 2
- Adoption 3
- Afro-Colombians 3
- Appeal / Right to appeal 2
- Armed forces / Military 1
- Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 22
- Asylum policy 1
- Asylum-seekers 6
- Burden of proof 4
- Cessation clauses 1
- Changes of circumstances in home country 1
- Child soldiers 4
- Children's rights 17
- Children-at-risk 4
- Citizenship / Nationality law 6
- Civil and political rights 1
- Climate change (including environmental migrants) 1
- Combatants / Former combatants 6
- Complementary forms of protection 2
- Constitutional law 12
- Convention against Torture (CAT) 7
- Corruption 1
- Country of origin information (COI) 15
- Credibility assessment 12
- Criminal justice 14
- Demobilization / Disarmament 3
- Denial of nationality 3
- Denial of refugee status 1
- Deportation / Forcible return 16
- Diplomatic protection 1
- Disappeared persons 1
- Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 3
- Domestic violence 1
- Drug trafficking 2
- Economic, social and cultural rights 8
- Effective protection 4
- Effective remedy 2
- Emigrants 1
- Equal opportunities 6
- Equality before the law 6
- Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 5
- Exclusion clauses 1
- Exhaustion of domestic remedies 4
- Expulsion 8
- Extradition 1
- Extrajudicial executions 1
- Extreme poverty 1
- Family reunification 2
- Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 13
- Freedom of assembly and association 2
- Freedom of expression 2
- Freedom of movement 5
- Gang related violence 2
- Gender discrimination 3
- Gross, systematic and large-scale 4
- Grounds for persecution 6
- HIV and AIDS 3
- Habitual residence 1
- Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 10
- Human rights activists 5
- Human rights and fundamental freedoms 9
- Human rights courts 5
- Human rights law 6
- Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 1
- Immigrants 1
- Immigration law 4
- Independence of judiciary 2
- Indigenous persons 6
- Internal armed conflict 9
- Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 11
- Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 66
- International Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers (ICRMW) 1
- International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 2
- Jurisdiction 3
- Legal representation / Legal aid 4
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 5
- Livelihoods 1
- Mental health 2
- Migrant rights 1
- Migrants 2
- Military operations 1
- Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 3
- Minority rights 3
- Non-refoulement 5
- Non-state agents of persecution 27
- Passports 2
- Peace process 3
- Persecution based on political opinion 36
- Persecution of family members 6
- Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 2
- Persons with disabilities 1
- Political parties 3
- Pre-trial detention 1
- Proof of nationality 4
- Property restitution 5
- Racial / Ethnic persecution 1
- Refoulement 4
- Refugee / Asylum law 4
- Refugees 4
- Residence permits / Residency 1
- Right to a nationality 7
- Right to development 1
- Right to education 10
- Right to employment 5
- Right to family life 5
- Right to food 3
- Right to health 10
- Right to justice 7
- Right to liberty and security 18
- Right to life 35
- Right to registration at birth 7
- Rights of non-citizens 1
- Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 11
- Safe third country 7
- Security forces 1
- Security situation 3
- Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 2
- Single procedure 2
- Social group discrimination 1
- Social group persecution 20
- State protection 7
- Statelessness 4
- Terrorism 1
- Threats / Intimidation 1
- Transgression of social / cultural norms 1
- Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 8
- Unlawful departure 1
- Visas 5
- Wayuú 1
- Well-founded fear of persecution 5
- Women's rights 3
- Women-at-risk 6
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Auto 225 de 2009
26 June 2009 | Judicial Body: Colombia: Corte Constitucional | Topic(s): Internally displaced persons (IDPs) | Countries: Colombia |
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Matter of Enrique Salas Compean; Matter of Sylla Bangaly; Matter of J-E-C-, et al
The Attorney General vacated the decision in Matter of Compean, Bangaly & J-E-C-, 24 I&N Dec. 710 (A.G. 2009), and pending the outcome of a rulemaking process, directed the Board of Immigration Appeals and the Immigration Judges to continue to apply the previously established standards for reviewing motions to reopen based on claims of ineffective assistance of counsel. 3 June 2009 | Judicial Body: United States Attorney-General | Topic(s): Deportation / Forcible return - Legal representation / Legal aid | Countries: Mali - United States of America |
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Refugee Appeal No. 76289
8 May 2009 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: Refugee Status Appeals Authority | Topic(s): Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements - Combatants / Former combatants - Country of origin information (COI) - Internal armed conflict - Internally displaced persons (IDPs) - Non-state agents of persecution - Persecution based on political opinion - Security situation | Countries: Colombia - New Zealand |
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Medidas Provisionales Pueblo Indígena Kankuamo
3 April 2009 | Judicial Body: Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACrtHR) | Topic(s): Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity - Indigenous persons - Right to liberty and security - Right to life | Countries: Colombia |
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Provisional Measures Pueblo Indígena de Kankuamo
3 April 2009 | Judicial Body: Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACrtHR) | Topic(s): Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity - Indigenous persons - Right to liberty and security - Right to life | Countries: Colombia |
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Sentencia C-175/09
The Constitutional Court declared unconstitutional the Ley 1152 de 2007, “por la cual se dicta el Estatuto de Desarrollo Rural, se reforma el Instituto Colombiano de Desarrollo Rural, Incoder, y se dictan otras disposiciones”. 18 March 2009 | Judicial Body: Colombia: Corte Constitucional | Topic(s): Afro-Colombians - Indigenous persons - Minority rights - Right to development | Countries: Colombia |
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Recurso No. 6894/2005
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. 16 February 2009 | Judicial Body: Spain: Tribunal Supremo | Countries: Colombia - Spain |
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Auto No. 005 de 2009
Referencia: Protección de los derechos fundamentales de la población afrodescendiente víctima del desplazamiento forzado, en el marco del estado de cosas inconstitucional declarado en la sentencia T-025 de 2004. 26 January 2009 | Judicial Body: Colombia: Corte Constitucional | Topic(s): Human rights and fundamental freedoms - Internally displaced persons (IDPs) | Countries: Colombia |
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Auto No. 011 de 2009
Seguimiento de medidas adoptadas para superar el estado de cosas inconstitucional sobre el problema del desplazamiento interno, específicamente respecto de las falencias de los sistemas de registro caracterización de la población desplazada. 26 January 2009 | Judicial Body: Colombia: Corte Constitucional | Topic(s): Internally displaced persons (IDPs) | Countries: Colombia |
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Auto No. 004 de 2009
Referencia: Protección de los derechos fundamentales de las personas y los pueblos indígenas desplazados por el conflicto armado o en riesgo de desplazamiento forzado, en el marco de la superación del estado de cosas inconstitucional declarado en la sentencia T-025 de 2004, después de la sesión pública de información técnica realizada el 21 de septiembre de 2007 ante la Sala Segunda de Revisión. 26 January 2009 | Judicial Body: Colombia: Corte Constitucional | Topic(s): Human rights and fundamental freedoms - Internal armed conflict - Internally displaced persons (IDPs) | Countries: Colombia |
