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4 April 2005
Updates on www.RSDWatch.org:
In advice to European governments, UNHCR re-affirms fairness for asylum-seekers - and raises questions about its own RSD procedures
http://www.rsdwatch.org/index_files/Page354.htm
- High Commissioner tells Europe that the dozens of states where UNHCR
performs refugee status determination should not be considered first countries
of asylum.
- UNHCR presses safeguards established in human rights, administrative law,
and past UNHCR statements.
- On several fronts, UNHCR offices fail to live up to the standards that it is
promoting to others.
- To Council of Europe, UNHCR emphasizes giving clear reasons for rejection,
limiting the use of secret evidence, providing an independent appeal, and
recognizing the right to counsel - all of which are often compromised in
UNHCR's own RSD procedures.
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