Determination of Refugee Status

Web Resources

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  Center for Gender and Refugee Studies

  CGRS’s core mission is to protect the basic human rights of refugee women and girls by advancing gender-sensitive asylum laws, helping advocates successfully represent women in need of protection, and preventing these refugees from being forcibly returned to the countries from which they have (...)
  http://cgrs.uchastings.edu/

• Center for Migration and Refugee Studies - The American University in Cairo

  Migration and refugee issues have become high priorities on the global agenda and are still gaining momentum. The Middle East and Africa (MEA) is among the largest source, transit and destination regions for migrants and refugees in the world. In spite of its strategic position, however, the MEA remains one of the regions suffering the most (...)
  http://www.aucegypt.edu/GAPP/cmrs/
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  Centre for Refugee Studies

  Research is central to the work of the Centre for Refugee Studies. Based at York University in Toronto, Canada, but involved in research projects around the world, CRS is dedicated to research on diverse refugee issues; it informs public discussion as well as policy development and practice innovation by international, governmental, advocacy (...)
  http://crs.yorku.ca/

• Directive sur les procédures concernant les personnes vulnérables comparaissant devant la CISR

  es présentes directives ont pour objet de mettre en place des adaptations d’ordre procédural pour les personnes que la Commission de l’immigration et du statut de réfugié du Canada (CISR) identifie comme étant vulnérables.
  http://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/fra/brdcom/references/pol/guidir/Pages/vulnerable.aspx
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  European Council on Refugees and Exiles

  ECRE (European Council on Refugees and Exiles) is a pan-European network of 69 refugee-assisting non-governmental organisations that promotes a humane and generous European asylum policy. Together with our members, we promote the protection and integration of asylum-seekers, refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) based on values of (...)
  http://www.ecre.org/
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  Forced Migration Online: A world of information on human displacement

  Forced Migration Online (FMO) provides instant access to a wide variety of online resources dealing with the situation of forced migrants worldwide. Designed for use by practitioners, policy makers, researchers, students or anyone interested in the field, FMO aims to give comprehensive information in an impartial environment and to promote (...)
  http://www.forcedmigration.org/
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  GISTI - Le Gisti ?

  French human rights organization. It protects legal and political rights of foreigners and immigrants and advocates freedom of movement across borders.
  http://www.gisti.org/

• Guide de formation de la CISR concernant les victimes de torture

  Le Guide de formation concernant les victimes de torture vise à aider les commissaires et les agents de protection des réfugiés (APR) de la Section de la protection des réfugiés (SPR) à composer avec les victimes de torture dans le cadre des procédures d’octroi de l’asile.
  http://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/Fra/tribunal/rpdspr/victorture/Pages/index.aspx

• Guideline on Procedures with Respect to Vulnerable Persons Appearing Before the IRB

  The intention of this Guideline is to provide procedural accommodation(s) for individuals who are identified as vulnerable persons by the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB).
  http://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/Eng/brdcom/references/pol/guidir/Pages/vulnerable.aspx
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  ICMPD

  ICMPD today is an international organisation whose purpose is to promote innovative, comprehensive and sustainable migration policies and to function as a service exchange mechanism for governments and organisations.
  http://www.icmpd.org/