Asylum – Afghanistan – the importance of country information

23 June 2022 | Afghanistan

In this note, NANSEN examines the use of guidelines published by the UNHCR and the European Asylum Agency (EUAA). It discusses these guidelines in general and, more specifically, in the context of applications for international protection made by Afghan asylum...

Recognition of the need for protection of the Bidoon of Kuwait

15 June 2022 | Kuwait

The Bidoon of Kuwait are exposed to numerous structural abuses. We have already analysed in detail the evidence of their statelessness. Here, we present the arguments in support of their need for international protection. These arguments were used in an intervention...

Female genital mutilation and refusal of protection: what are the arguments?

15 June 2022 | Female genital mutilation, Women

NANSEN has analysed,  based on the Council for Alien Law Litigation case law, the obstacles to the granting of international protection to victims of genital mutilation and those who fear it.  The main aim of this Note, which is now available in French, is to provide...

Children of Ukrainian refugees in Belgium: preventing statelessness

14 April 2022 | Statelessness, Ukrain

Registering children at birth is a crucial mechanism for preventing statelessness. Today in Belgium, there are certain – understandable – difficulties in obtaining Ukrainian passports for Ukrainian newborns.    Here is some key information:  Under...

Update NANSEN Note – Medical documents in the asylum procedure

7 March 2022 | Forensic report, Victim of torture

In 2020, NANSEN published an analysis of how the Istanbul Protocol – the tool for the medical documentation of torture or other inhuman or degrading treatment – works, and how medical certificates prepared in accordance with this Protocol are taken into...