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Guidelines on International Protection No. 6: Religion-Based Refugee Claims

国际保护准则第6号：基于宗教的难民申请

Issuing institutionUNHCR

Date / version28 April 2004

Document typeUNHCR legal guidance

CRM statusSource verified

CRM EDITORIAL SUMMARY

Summary

The Guidelines explain how belief, identity, way of life, forced recantation and concealed practice may engage the refugee definition.

Document framework

Addresses religion, forms of persecution, credibility, conversion or concealment of belief and sur place activity.

Potential use

Directly relevant to China-related religious-persecution and religion-based asylum claims.

Religion-based asylumPersecutionRefugee definition

Suggested citation

UNHCR, Guidelines on International Protection No. 6: Religion-Based Refugee Claims, HCR/GIP/04/06 (28 April 2004).

Source note

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