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Handbook on Procedures and Criteria for Determining Refugee Status under the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees
HCR/1P/4/Eng/REV.2
The Handbook was first published in 1979 and re-issued in 1992 and in 2019
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