Common European Asylum System in a Changing World

EXERCISE: 1. Compare Article 3 of ECHR and Article 33 of Geneva Convention and Article 21 of QD (the qualification directive) 2. Explain exemptions from non-refoulement principle Find the reference to refugee protection in the EU Charter 3. Find the reference to human rights in recitals of the qualification directive

Further reading and sources S Peers and others (eds), The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights: A Commentary, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2014 Guide on the Case Law of the European Convention of Human Rights, European Court of Human Rights, Immigration, 13 August 2019 Handbook on European law relating to asylum, borders and immigration , European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, 2015 Council of Europe, 2015 UNHCR Handbook for the Protection of Internally Displaced Persons UNHCR Handbook on Procedures and Criteria for Determining Refugee Status under the 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees UNHCR, Asylum in the European Union: A Study of the Implementation of the Qualification Directive UNHCR RefWorld, database for searching asylum law and cases from a variety of countries The hyperlinks to the ECHR cases cited in the electronic version of the textbook are directed to the HUDOC database (http://hudoc.echr.coe.int) which provides access to the case law of the ECHR

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