UN Refugee Convention

Click to read the Convention and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees. (This is the Prime law for asylum seekers being the UN Convention and its protocol.)
The UN Convention


Read an article by the UNHCR and the EU, describing best practice on how to apply the UN Convention.
Beyond Proof

  • The threshold for a valid claim?
    An asylum claimant must seek to convince the RSU that they have a ‘well
    founded
    fear of execution, torture, long term imprisonment or deprivation of essential
    human rights.
  • To understand what those rights are please read the UN Human Rights Office
    website at the web portal: un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-
    rights
  • And see the Human Rights overview, and the Declaration of Human Rights at the
    web portal: https://www.ohchr_homepage