Refugee and Asylum Seeker Law

Includes summary information and links to "Related Documents" including key UNHCR publications and the Refugee Treaty and Legislation Dashboard.

The UNHCR website links to the text of the Convention and the Protocol, lists the state parties to both and includes the most up to date reservations and declarations. An rss feed can alert you to new reservations and declarations.

Part of NHCR's RefWorld Legal Collection, a tool for disseminating and promoting the international law relating to refugees, asylum seekers, stateless persons and other 'persons of concern' to UNHCR. Collection includes:
-international instruments relating to refugees and human rights;
-international and national legislation (including bilateral and multilateral treaties); and
-special agreements, such as memoranda of understanding, host-country agreements and voluntary repatriation agreements.

Select 'Laws' from the top blue menu bar to navigate quickly to the major refugee treaties, or
Browse by 'Document Type' type and select eg: bilateral or multilateral treaties from the alphabetical list. The search can then be narrowed by country, keyword etc.

An archive of the history of the refugee conventions. Provides authoritative introductory notes by Guy Goodwin-GillI and includes procedural history, preparatory documents, status information and historical audio and video files for the following:
- The 1951 Refugee Convention and 1967 Protocol 
- The 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons
- The 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness
- The 1967 Declaration on Territorial Asylum

UN Treaty repository, includes information on the status of over 500 multilateral treaties deposited with the Secretary-General.

Repository of UN documents and communications.

Refworld is a tool for disseminating and promoting the international law relating to refugees, asylum seekers, stateless persons and other 'persons of concern' to UNHCR. This collection includes international, regional and domestic caselaw.

Refer to the 'Sources of International Law' page, for more information on finding international case law.

From Global Legal Monitor

(UNHCR, 2017)