Regional Focus: Americas

Event:

Symposium on the US Refugee Protection System: Laying the Groundwork for Reform of the US Refugee, Asylum and Temporary Protection Programs, New York, 3 June 2014 [info]
- Registration now open; admission is free, but space is limited.

Publications:

2013 Refugee Claim Data and IRB Member Recognition Rates (Canadian Council for Refugees, April 2014) [access]
- See also related news article.

Asylum Insanity: Welcome to the Land of the Free (Village Voice Blog, April 2014) [text]

*The Revised Credible Fear Lesson Plan: Enough is Enough! (AILA Leadership Blog, April 2014) [text]

The Eye of the Beholder: Asylum Adjudication by Diplomatic Authorities in Latin America, Working Paper, no. 11 (RLI, March 2014) [text]

Iniciativa Cartagena +30 - La protección internacional y la efectiva integración: recomendaciones de la sociedad civil frente a las dimensiones actuales del asilo y la apatridia en América Latina y el Caribe = Cartagena Initiative +30 - International Protection and Effective Integration: Civil Society Recommendations from the Front Lines of Asylum and Statelessness in Latin America and the Caribbean [access]
- Executive summary available in Spanish.

Refugee Protection and Barriers to Territorial Access, New York, 2 April 2014 [access]
- Follow link for video.

The U.S. Asylum System: Protecting the Persecuted, Fighting Fraud - Fact Sheet (Human Rights First, April 2014) [text]

Where Cato Gets It Wrong on Asylum (The Asylumist, April 2014) [text]

*updated

Related posts:
- Regional Focus: United States (9 April 2014)
- Regional Focus: Americas (1 April 2014)

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