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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Refugee Protection
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The meaning of "well-founded fear of persecution"; standard of proof requires applicant to show that the fear is based on objective facts which make the fear reasonable under the circumstances, but not necessarily that he or she is more likely than not to become a victim of persecution.
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- Date: 14 July 1986
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), UNHCR intervention before the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca, No. 85-782, 14 July 1986, https://www.refworld.org/jurisprudence/amicus/unhcr/1986/en/69760 [accessed 31 August 2026]
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- Date: 21 October 1983
International Labour Office (ILO), Memorandum of Understanding between the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Director-General of the International Labour Office (ILO), -, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 21 October 1983, https://www.refworld.org/legal/agreements/unhcr/1983/en/20326 [accessed 31 August 2026]
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- Date: November 1997
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- Date: 17 March 1997
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), UN World Health Organization (WHO), Memorandum of Understanding between the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the World Health Organization, -, 17 March 1997, https://www.refworld.org/legal/agreements/unhcr/1997/en/13450 [accessed 31 August 2026]
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- Date: 10 November 1995
BO London, Representations to the Social Security Advisory Committee on the "Social Security (Persons from Abroad) Miscellaneous Amendment Regulations 1995", -, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 10 November 1995, https://www.refworld.org/legal/natlegcomments/unhcr/1995/en/34821 [accessed 31 August 2026]
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- Date: 31 January 1994
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), The Principle of Non-Refoulement as a Norm of Customary International Law. Response to the Questions Posed to UNHCR by the Federal Constitutional Court of the Federal Republic of Germany in Cases 2 BvR 1938/93, 2 BvR 1953/93, 2 BvR 1954/93, -, 31 January 1994, https://www.refworld.org/jurisprudence/amicus/unhcr/1994/en/20625 [accessed 31 August 2026]
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- Date: 24 August 1977
