UNHCR Protection Manual
The Protection Manual is UNHCR's repository of protection policy and guidance. The documents are listed in reverse chronological order.
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This note sets out key aspects of the mandate of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (hereafter the High Commissioner) and the Office of the High Commissioner (hereafter the Office), including the legal basis and sources of the mandates, its nature and character, as well as the mandate’s personal and material scope. This includes refugees, asylum-seekers, returnees, and stateless and internally displaced people
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- Date: December 2025
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- Date: 6 October 2016
Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme (ExCom), Conclusion No. 112 (LXVII): International cooperation from a protection and solutions perspective - Adopted by the Executive Committee (2016), No. 112 (LXVII) 2016, 6 October 2016, https://www.refworld.org/policy/exconc/excom/2016/11534 [accessed 29 October 2026]
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- Date: 2018
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- Date: June 2017
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- Date: 3 October 2016
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- Date: 29 June 2013
European Union: Council of the European Union, Regulation (EU) No 603/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on the establishment of 'Eurodac' for the comparison of fingerprints for the effective application of Regulation (EU) No 604/2013 establishing the criteria and mechanisms for determining the Member State responsible for examining an application for international protection lodged in one of the Member States by a third-country national or a stateless person and on requests for the comparison with Eurodac data by Member States' law enforcement authorities and Europol for law enforcement purposes, and amending Regulation (EU) No 1077/2011 establishing a European Agency for the operational management of large-scale IT systems in the area of freedom, security and justice (recast), OJ L. 180/1-180/30; 29.6.2013, (EU)2003/86, 29 June 2013, https://www.refworld.org/legal/reglegislation/council/2013/89216 [accessed 29 October 2026]
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- Date: 29 June 2013
European Union: Council of the European Union, Directive 2013/33/EU of the European Parliament and Council of 26 June 2013 laying down standards for the reception of applicants for international protection (recast), OJ L. 180/96 -105/32; 29.6.2013, 2013/33/EU, 29 June 2013, https://www.refworld.org/legal/reglegislation/council/2013/102659 [accessed 29 October 2026]
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- Date: 11 December 2000
European Union: Council of the European Union, 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, OJ L 316; 15 December 2000, pp.1-10, 11 December 2000, https://www.refworld.org/legal/reglegislation/council/2000/72538 [accessed 29 October 2026]
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- Date: 3 June 2015
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- Date: 20 December 2011
European Union: Council of the European Union, Directive 2011/95/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 on standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection, for a uniform status for refugees or for persons eligible for subsidiary protection, and for the content of the protection granted (recast), OJ L. 337/9-337/26; 20.12.2011, 2011/95/EU, 20 December 2011, https://www.refworld.org/legal/reglegislation/council/2011/84781 [accessed 29 October 2026]
