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The Fahamu Refugee Programme is pleased to announce the November 2012 issue of the Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter. The issue can be found . Please feel free to share it widely.

In this issue:

• Country of Origin and Legal News

• Deportation News

• Court enjoins arrest of Sudanese asylum seekers until further decision is reached
•Case of Singh and Others v. Belgium

• Certain forms of serious interference with the public manifestation of religion may constitute persecution for reasons of religion

• The Search: protection space in Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia, and the Philippines

• Pilot users needed for Asylum Access Refugee Rights Toolkit

SPECIAL FOCUS: KOREA

Unsolved issues in South Korea’s domestic refugee law
Advocacy for refugees using the domestic refugee law in Korea

• Remembering episodes of sexual violence: the impact of post-traumatic stress disorder on evidence

• Compilation of recent materials on Rwanda and continuing crisis of UNHCR’s recommendation that the Cessation Clause be invoked in June 2013

• Joint NGO statement on international protection, delivered before the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Geneva, October 2012

• Treatment of returned failed asylum seekers to the Democratic Republic of Congo

• Petition provides hope for the delay of the anti-infiltration law to asylum seekers in Israel

• Resources

• Publications

• Calls for papers

• Conferences, workshops, and courses

• Grants and awards

• Vacancies

We welcome any and all feedback, and look forward to submissions from legal aid providers, refugee advocates, refugees, and any others interested in the promotion of refugee legal aid globally.