Key Guidance and Policy Updates from UNHCR
To keep their users across the globe informed, Refworld is sharing key updates via its newsletter. Since their last newsletter, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency has published several important documents. Here are some of these key documents they thought that might be relevant for you.
RefWorld - unhcr website
UNHCR presents Refworld 2013 at www.refworld.org. The website has undergone significant changes with a view to enhancing the overall user experience, based on a user-survey conducted in 2012 as well as feedback received from internal and external users over the years.
Online texts and sources on refugee law
Members may wish to know of Oxford University Press's recent initiative in making available free online a treasure trove of key texts and sources on refugee law.
These can be accessed through http://opil.ouplaw.com/page/refugee-law
UNHCR Protection Manual
UNHCR has launched its online Protection Manual. This is an online repository of UNHCR’s protection policy and guidance documents. The Protection Manual may be useful tool for judges dealing with asylum/refugee law, statelessness law or IDP related issues.