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Guidance note

Table of contents

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Common analysis
  • 1. Actors of persecution or serious harm
    • 1.1. The Belgravia state actors
    • 1.2. Blestil armed group
    • 1.3. Other non-State actors
  • 2. Refugee status
    • 2.1. General remarks
    • 2.2. Public officials or servants of the government of Belgravia
    • 2.3. Journalists
    • 2.4. Individuals (perceived as) contravening religious or social norms
    • 2.5. Ethnic minority of Cirilio
    • 2.6. LGBTIQ persons
    • 2.7. Women and girls
      • 2.7.1. Violence against women and girls: overview
      • 2.7.2. Single women and female heads of households
  • 3. Subsidiary protection
    • 3.1. Article 15(a) QD: death penalty or execution
    • 3.2. Article 15(b) QD: torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
      • 3.2.1. Arbitrary arrests, illegal detention and prison conditions
      • 3.2.2. Criminality
      • 3.2.3. Healthcare unavailability and socio-economic conditions
    • 3.3. Article 15(c) QD: indiscriminate violence in situations of armed conflict
      • 3.3.1. Preliminary remarks
      • 3.3.2. Armed conflict (international or internal)
      • 3.3.3. Qualification of a person as a ‘civilian’
      • 3.3.4. Indiscriminate violence
        • Indiscriminate violence
          • Elisol
          • Lumiria
          • Dancouck
          • Morilia
      • 3.3.5. Serious and individual threat
      • 3.3.6. Qualification of the harm as ‘threat to (a civilian’s) life or person’
      • 3.3.7. Nexus/’by reason of’
  • 4. Actors of protection
    • 4.1. The Belgravian state
    • 4.2. Parties or organisations, including international organisations
  • 5. Internal protection alternative
    • 5.1. Preliminary remarks
    • 5.2. Part of the country
    • 5.3. Safety
      • 5.3.1. Absence of persecution or serious harm
      • 5.3.2. Availability of protection against persecution or serious harm
    • 5.4. Travel and admittance
    • 5.5. Reasonableness to settle
      • 5.5.1. General situation
      • 5.5.2. Individual circumstances
      • 5.5.3. Conclusions on reasonableness
  • 6. Exclusion
    • 6.1. Relevant circumstances
      • 6.1.1. Crimes committed by state forces and state-affiliated forces
      • 6.1.2. Criminal activity
      • 6.1.3. Other types of violence
    • 6.2. Guidance with regard to Belgravia
      • 6.2.1. Article 12(2)(a) and Article 17(1)(a) QD
      • 6.2.2. Article 12(2)(b) and Article 17(1)(b) QD
      • 6.2.3. Article 12(2)(c) and Article 17(1)(c) QD
      • 6.2.4. Article 17(1)(d) QD
  • Abbreviations and glossary
    • Country of origin information references
    • Guidance note
      • The structure of the Somali governance
      • The role of clans in Somalia
      • Actors of persecution or serious harm
      • Refugee status
      • Subsidiary protection
        • Article 15(a) QD: death penalty or execution
        • Article 15(b) QD: torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
        • Article 15(c) QD: indiscriminate violence in situations of armed conflict
      • Actors of protection
      • Internal protection alternative
      • Exclusion
  • Guidance Note
    • Guidance Note 1
    • Guidance Note 2
    • Guidance Note 3
    • Guidance Note 4
    • Guidance Note 5
    • Guidance Note 6
      • Guidance Note 7
      • Guidance Note 8
        • Guidance Note 10

 

Please cite as: EUAA, 'Guidance note' in CGS for TCDS, November 2023.

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The guidance note summarises the conclusions of the common analysis and should be read in conjunction with it. It covers the following topics:

  • Actors of persecution or serious harm
  • Refugee status
  • Subsidiary protection
    • Article 15(a) QD: death penalty or execution
    • Article 15(b) QD: torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
    • Article 15(c) QD: indiscriminate violence in situations of armed conflict
  • Actors of protection
  • Internal protection alternative
  • Exclusion

 

 

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