"Abbreviations" [2013] ELECD 801; in Juss, Singh Satvinder; Harvey, Colin (eds), "Contemporary Issues in Refugee Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013) xi

Book Title: Contemporary Issues in Refugee Law

Editor(s): Juss, Singh Satvinder; Harvey, Colin

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781782547655

Section Title: Abbreviations

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Abbreviations
BIA Board of Immigration Appeals (US)
CAT Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel,
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
CBSA Canada Border Services Agency
CEAS Common European Asylum System
COI country of origin information
CRC Convention on the Rights of the Child
CTOC Convention against Transnational Organised Crime
ECHR European Convention on Human Rights
ECtHR European Court of Human Rights
ECJ European Court of Justice
FGM female genital mutilation
IAC Immigration Appeal Chamber (UK)
IAT Immigration Appeal Tribunal (UK)
IFA internal flight alternative
IHL international humanitarian law
IOM International Organization for Migration
IRB Immigration and Refugee Board (US)
IRO International Refugee Organization
LGBTI lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, intersex
MIO migration integrity officer
MOU Memorandum of Understanding
NGO non-governmental organization
PSG particular social group
RRT Refugee Review Tribunal (Aus)
SAA Refugee Status Appeals Authority (NZ)
SIAC Special Immigration Appeals Commission (UK)
TIP trafficking in persons
UNCRC United Nations Committee on the Rights of the
Child
UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees




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