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New edition of the Refugee Law Reader online

The Hungarian Helsinki Committee launched updated editions of The Refugee Law Reader. It is a comprehensive online model curriculum for the study of the complex and rapidly evolving field of international refugee law.

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Further Developing Asylum Quality in the EU: manual & summary report

UNHCR published a summary report on its EU-funded project on quality of asylum procedures in nine EU member states. Additionally, a manual introducing to various elements necessary for a high quality asylum system provides annotated checklists as an aide to … Continue reading

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UNHCR’s 60th Anniversary

The head of the UN refugee agency, António Guterres, marked UNHCR’s 60th anniversary by appealing for strengthened global impetus in tackling the world’s new and fast-evolving displacement and statelessness problems.

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Compendium of COI Sources by UK Home Office (2007)

The sources have been compiled by the UK COI Service on a country by country basis from contributions provided by Australia, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Sweden, the UK, USA, and also ecoi.net.

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Training manual “Researching Country of Origin Information” published

An updated (mainly: hyperlink-checking) version of the 2004 training manual on researching COI has been published and can be downloaded in 7 languages at the following address: http://www.coi-training.net/

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