USCIS training module: Researching and Using Country of Origin Information in RAIO Adjudications
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has published a training module on researching and using COI for their asylum adjudicators. The document contains guidelines, examples and exercises for asylum decision-makers.
Featured topics on Afghanistan, Dagestan, Nigeria and Somalia updated
The featured topics on Afghanistan (security in Kabul), the Russian Federation (security in Dagestan), Nigeria (Boko Haram) and Somalia (al-Shabaab) have been updated.
Mapping paper on NGOs working on COI in Europe published by ARC & DCR
Asylum Research Consultancy (ARC) and the Dutch Council for Refugees (DCR) published a mapping paper on NGO actors working on Country of Origin Information in Europe.
New ACCORD training manual on “Researching Country of Origin Information” (2013 edition)
ACCORD has published a revised edition of the training manual “Researching Country of Origin Information”, updating the 2004 edition.
It is available for download and in print now.
The October 2013 issue of The Researcher
The Researcher is published two times a year by the Refugee Documentation Centre (RDC) in Ireland. It is a publication which combines academic papers, summaries of caselaw, guides to new legislation, reports of conferences, articles on RDC services and items of country of origin information.
The Hungarian Helsinki Committee publishes a training manual on credibility assessment in asylum procedures
As part of the CREDO project, the Hungarian Helsinki Committee (HHC) published a multidisciplinary training manual on the assessment of credibility in asylum procedures.
COI and social media – a literature review by New Zealand’s Country Research Branch
The Country Research Branch of Immigration New Zealand, which is part of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, has published a literature review on the use of information sourced from social media in COI research.
