Handbook on social health protection for refugees: Approaches, lessons learned and practical tools to assess coverage options
Resources - Year: 2020
The purpose of this handbook is to guide UNHCR public health and programme staff and ILO staff working on social protection at country level on the considerations and practical steps required to assess options for the inclusion of refugees in national social health protection...
Read MorePre-migration and post-migration factors associated with mental health in humanitarian migrants in Australia and the moderation eff ect of post-migration stressors: findings from the first wave data of the BNLA cohort study
Resources - Author: Andre Renzaho, Brian J. Hall, Li Ling, Wen Chen / Year: 2017
Background The process of becoming a humanitarian migrant is potentially damaging to mental health. We examined the association between pre-migration and post-migration potentially traumatic events and stressors and mental health, and assessed the moderating eff ect of post-migration stressors in humanitarian migrants in Australia. Methods In this study, we...
Read MoreDiscriminatory, cruel and unusual treatment of refugees for provision of healthcare in Canada
Legal depository - Country: Canada / Body: Federal Court of Canada / Year: 2014
The Federal Court reviewed the effects of changes to the Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP) in relation to sections 7, 12 and 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, pertaining to the right to life, liberty and the security of the person, the prohibition of cruel and...
Read MoreConvention relating to the Status of Refugees, 1951
Legal depository - Year: 1951
Article 24: Labour legislation and social security 1. The Contracting States shall accord to refugees lawfully staying in their territory the same treatment as is accorded to nationals in respect of the following matters; (a) In so far as such matters are governed by laws or regulations or are...
Read MoreEquality of Treatment (Social Security) Convention, 1962 (No. 118)
Legal depository - Year: 1962
Convention No. 118 addresses the issue of the social security of migrant workers in a global manner. It covers the nine branches of social security and provides that, for each branch accepted under the Convention, a ratifying State undertake to grant equality of treatment to nationals of other ratifying...
Read MoreRefugees and asylum seekers
Generally, under human rights instruments, rights are granted to all, and not only to nationals of States parties. Thus, States parties to relevant human rights treaties are obliged to progressively ensure all economic, cultural, and social rights —including the rights to social security and health— to all individuals within...
Read MoreSocial security for asylum seekers in the United Kingdom
Legal depository - Country: United Kingdom / Body: Other Domestic Courts / Year: 2005
Summary: In this case, the House of Lords listened to appeals by the Secretary of State for Home Department, who denied state support to destitute asylum applicants (“applicants”) on the grounds of not having applied for asylum “as soon as reasonably practicable”. The applicants cited a violation of Article...
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