UNHCR Beyond Detention Strategy: Baseline Report

UNHCR

01/2014

The key findings presented in this report are derived from an extensive review of the legal framework and detention situation in the 12 focus countries, as it was end 2013. This analysis has been structured through a detention checklist developed based on UNHCR Detention Guidelines (2012)3 which reflect the state of international law relating to detention on immigration-related grounds of asylum-seekers, refugees and other persons of concern to UNHCR.