Documents

UNHCR Guidelines and Materials

Global Consultations on International Protection/Second Track: Article 31 of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees: Non-Penalization, Detention and Protection (October 2001)

UNHCR Reception Standards for Asylum Seekers in the European Union (July 2000)

UNHCR Revised Guidelines on Applicable Criteria and Standards relating to the Detention of Asylum Seekers (February 1999)

UNHCR Guidelines on Policies and Procedures in Dealing with Unaccompanied Children Seeking Asylum (February 1997)

UNHCR Executive Committee Conclusion No. 44 (XXXVII) – 1986 – Detention of Refugees and Asylum Seekers

UNHCR ExCom 15^th Standing Committee, Detention of Asylum Seekers and Refugees: The Framework, the Problem and Recommended Practice, 4 June 1999

Guidelines on International Protection No. 1: Gender-Related Persecution within the context of Article 1A(2) of the 1951 Convention and/or the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees (May 2002)

Guidelines on International Protection No. 2: Membership of a Particular Social group within the context of Article 1A(2) of the 1951 Convention and/or the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees (May 2002)

Guidelines on International Protection No. 3: Cessation of Refugee Status under Article 1C(5) and (6) of the 1951 Convention and/or the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees (February 2003)

Guidelines on International Protection No. 4: Internal Flight or Relocation Alternative within the context of Article 1A(2) of the 1951 Convention and/or the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees (July 2003)

Guidelines on International Protection No. 5: Application of the Exclusion Clauses: Article 1F of the 1951 Convention and/or the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees (September 2003 )

Guidelines on International Protection No. 6: Religion-Based Refugee Claims under Article 1A(2) of the 1951 Convention and/or the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees (April 2004)

UN Documents

1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol

Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 1966

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1966

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 1979

Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment and Punishment (1984)

Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)

International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of all Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (1990)

Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (1955)
Code of Conduct for Law Enforcement Officials (1979)

Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under any Form of Detention or Imprisonment (1988)

Basic Principles for the Treatment of Prisoners

Body of Principles for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of Their Liberty

Principles of Medical Ethics relevant to the Role of Health Personnel, particularly Physicians, in the Protection of Prisoners and Detainees against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

Reception Standards for Asylum Seekers in the European Union (UNHCR 2000)

Regional Documents – Europe

Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

Charter of the Fundamental Rights of the European Union

European Commission Communication to the Council and the European Parliament on a community return policy on illegal residents, COM (2002) 564(01)

European Commission Green paper on a community return policy on illegal residents, COM/2002/0175

European Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe - Twenty Guidelines on Forced Return (May 2005)

European Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe - Twenty Guidelines on Forced Return (September 2005)

EU Council Directive 2003/9/EC of 27 January 2003 laying down minimum standards for the reception of asylum-seekers

EU Council Regulation (EC) No. 343/2003 of 18 February 2003 establishing the criteria and mechanisms for determining the Member State responsible for examining an asylum application lodged in one of the Member States by a third-country national, OJ L50 of 25 February 2003

EU Council Regulation (EC) 407/2002 of 28 February 2002 laying down certain rules to implement Regulation (EC) 2726/2000 concerning the establishment of “Eurodac” for the comparison of fingerprints for the effective application of the Dublín Convention

EU Council Regulation (EC) No 2725/2000 of 11 December 2000 concerning the establishment of “Eurodac” for the comparison of fingerprints for the effective application of the Dublin Convention

EU Council Directive 2001/55/EC of July 2001 on minimum standards for giving temporary protection in the event of a mass influx of displaced persons and on measures promoting a balance of efforts between Member States in receiving such persons and bearing the consequences thereof

Communication from the Commission to the Council and Parliament to present an Action Plan for the collection and analysis of Community Statistics in the field of migration, COM (2003) 179 final

National Documents:
- ITALY
FIDH Report: Right to Asylum in Italy - Access to Procedures and treatment of Asylum Seekers (2005)

-MALTA
FIDH Report: Locking Up Foreigners - Deterring Refugees and Migratory Flows in Malta (2004)

-UNITED KINGDOM
Seeking asylum is not a crime: detention of people who have sought asylum (Amnesty International UK 2005)
The Evolution of Immigration Detention in the UK: The Involvement of Private Prison Companies by Christine Bacon (Refugee Studies Centre Working Paper No. 27, September 2005)

'They took me away' - Women's Experiences of Immigration Detention in the UK, by Sarah Cutler and Sophia Ceneda (Asylum Aid, August 2004)

NGO and Research/Academic Documents

An Interpreters Perspective, by Anna Marie Fox (Medical Foundation for the Care of the Victims of Torture 2001)

Definition of Torture under International Law (Association for the Prevention of Torture)

ECRE Research Paper on Alternatives to Detention (1997)

Immigration, Asylum and Detention (ECRE 2004)

Examining Asylum Seekers: A Health Professional's Guide to Medical and Psychological Evaluations of Torture (Physicians for Human Rights 2001)

Guidelines for the Use of Language Analysis in Relation to Questions of National Origin in Refugee Cases (Language and National Origin Group 2004)

Medical Encounters in Finnish Reception Centres: Asylum-Seeker and Clinicial Perspectives, by Peter Koehn (Journal of Refugee Studies, Vol. 18, No. 1, March 2005)

Monitoring Places of Detention: A Practical Guide (APT 2004)

Children's Issues

Separated Children in Europe Programme Statement of Good Practices (2004)

Review of Child and Adolescent Refugee and Mental Health (National Child Traumatic Stress Network 2003)

Save the Children: Separated Children in Europe Programme Training Guide

Gender Guidelines and Materials

Canada: Women Refugee Claimants Fearing Gender-Related Persecution , by the Immigration and Refugee Board (1993, updated November 1996)

United States: Considerations for Asylum Officer Adjudicating Asylum Claims from Women (May 26, 1995)

Comparative Analysis of Gender Related persecution in national asylum legislation and practice in Europe, by Heaven Crawley and Trine Lester (UNHCR 2004)

Psychosocial Materials and Documents

Center for Victims of Torture: Study Group Guide for Psychotherapy with Torture Survivors (2004)

Bibliographies

Selected Bibliography on Detention (2004)

Selected Bibliography on Human Rights of Migrants (2004)

Selected Bibliography on Gender and Asylum (2004)

Selected Bibliography on Social Services (2003)

Selected Bibliography on Psychotherapy Issues (2003)