International Protection Considerations with regard to people fleeing the Syrian Arab Republic, Update VI

Document source:

UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Date:
March 2021

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Title

International Protection Considerations with regard to people fleeing the Syrian Arab Republic, Update VI

Document source

UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Date

March 2021

Document number

HCR/PC/SYR/2021/06

Document type

Country/Situation Specific Policy & Guidance

Collection

Policy & Guidance

Legal instruments

1954 Statelessness Convention

Country

Syrian Arab Republic (the)

Keywords

Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements

Burden-sharing and international co-operation

Exclusion clauses

Gender-based persecution

Internal armed conflict

International armed conflict

Persecution based on political opinion

Protection of civilian persons in time of war

Racial / Ethnic persecution

Security forces

Security situation

Social group persecution

Transgression of social / cultural norms

Protected persons

Asylum-seekers

Internally displaced persons (IDPs)

Refugees

Population groups

Palestinian

Comments:

This paper supersedes and replaces UNHCR's November 2017 International Protection Considerations with regard to people fleeing the Syrian Arab Republic, Update V.

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