In-debt Analysis of the Main Issues at the Refugee Protection Hearings of the RPD

• Location/Format: Live Webinar - 11.00 AM EST CCIC Approved - LSBC Approved (2.5 Hours)
• Presented By: Ms. Zdenka ACIN, (RCIC, Level 3) - CPD Educator

Event Objectives: This course provides a comprehensive analysis of the main issues that are raised at the refugee protection hearings held at the Refugee Protection Division (RPD) of the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB). Since the burden of proof is always on the refuge claimants, in order to have a fair and unbiased hearing, they have to understand what they have to prove in their testimony before the RPD so that the RPD Member can render a positive decision on their claim. Some of these extrapolated issues are: the definition of refugee convention as it is stipulated in article 1 of the Refugee Convention, and the section 96 of the IRPA; the Nexus (grounds of persecution linked to the definition of Convention refugee: race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group and political opinion); credibility, referent country or countries; state protection; agents of persecution; delay in leaving the country of persecution, and delay in claiming protection in Canada; failure to seek protection in other countries; reavailment (voluntary return to the country of persecution); internal flight alternative (IFA); exclusion clauses (Article 1E & 1F of the Refugee Convention - known also as the 1951 Geneva Convention - and sections A34 - A37 of the IRPA); persecution versus discrimination and prosecution versus persecution. 

This seminar is designed for RCIC & RISIA

Video Format: Registrants will have an opportunity to access the course online 24/7 via web until the expiration of the course as per ICCRC policy or June 30, with in respective CPD reporting year.

Registrant is responsible to read regulator's regulations for reporting and expiration policy.