These pages are authored by Resource Persons who have knowledge and experience in each Special Issue. All Resource Persons are known to the Rights in Exile Programme. Legal aid providers working on a case involving a refugee may email these Resource Persons for advice and assistance in building a case. Advice will be confidential.
If you encounter other kinds of claims that present special problems in refugee status determination, please contact us so that we can broaden our list.
Special Issues in Refugee Status Determination
Accusations of Witchcraft
Apostasy or Conversion
The Exclusion Clause
Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
Gang-based Asylum Claims
Gender Issues in the Asylum Claim
Military Service Evasion
Palestinians who fall under the 1951 Convention
Roma and groups outside nation-state organisation
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Smuggling and Trafficking
Unaccompanied/Separated Children