Handbook on Procedures and Criteria for Determining Refugee Status

Handbook on Procedures and Criteria for Determining Refugee Status under the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees

Description: "The Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme at its twenty-eighth session requested the Office of the High Commissioner “to consider the possibility of issuing – for the guidance of Governments – a handbook relating to procedures and criteria for determining refugee status”. The first edition of the Handbook was issued by my Division in September 1979 in response to this request by the Executive Committee. Since then the Handbook has been regularly reprinted to meet the increasing demands of government officials, academics, and lawyers concerned with refugee problems. The present edition updates information concerning accessions to the international refugee instruments including details of declarations on the
geographical applicability of the 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocol."

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