Creating Higher Burdens: Th e Presumption of State Protection in Democratic Countries.
The author examines the burden on refugee claimants at the Immigration and Refugee Board in Canada to provide evidence that their home state cannot protect them. In particular, the paper discusses the growing trend of adjudicators taking de facto judicial notice of the fact that a country is democr...
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| Language: | English |
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York University Libraries
2011-04-01
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| Series: | Refuge |
| Online Access: | https://refuge.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/refuge/article/view/32089 |