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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Convention relating to the Status of Refugees
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees of 31 January 1967
Handbook on Procedures and Criteria for Determining Refugee Status
Immigration Law sites -- A listing of various domestic and international sites
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR) Library- including BIA precedent decisions
Visa Bulletin-- A publication of the State Department advising on current visa availability; updated monthly
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices-U.S. Department of State
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees --
Center for International and European Law on Immigration and Asylum
The Centre for Refugee Studies --Based in Toronto
The European Convention on Human Rights -- echr.co.uk/
The University of Michigan Law School Refugee Caselaw Site
Boston Mass. Refugee Law Center
UN Human Rights Home Page
Refugee Law Center-http://www.refugeelawcenter.org/index.htm
Amnesty International
on the Web-http://www.amnesty.org/
Human Rights Watch-http://www.hrw.org/
African
Human Rights Resource Center-http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/africa/
--(Jt. project of Makerere University Human Rights and Peace
Center and the University of Minnesota Human Rights Center.
Directory of
Human Rights Resources on Web
INA
* Definition of "refugee" (INA sec. 101(a)(42))
* "Asylum" (INA sec. 208)
* INS Asylum Regulations (8 C.F.R., part 208)
* Special preliminary "credible fear" determination
for certain illegally arrivinf migrants (INA sec. 235(b)(1)(B))
* Restriction on removal to a country where alien's life or freedom
would be threatened (INA sec. 241(b)(3))
* Temporary Protected Status (INA sec. 244)
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