Extradition procedures
• Are any modifications required to the existing domestic legislative, regulatory and procedural frameworks
governing extradition requests to ensure that in case of a conflict arising between the prohibition against
refoulement under UNCAT and States parties’ obligations pursuant to a multilateral or bilateral extradition
treaty or agreements, the former will prevail?
Additional resources
UN Committee against Torture, General Comment No. 4 (2017) on the implementation of article 3
of the Convention in the context of article 22, 9 February 2018
International Organization for Migration, Information Note on the Principle of Non-Refoulement, April 2014
UNHCR Guidance Note on safeguards against unlawful or irregular removal of refugees and asylum-seekers,
January 2014
International Commission of Jurists, Principles on the Role of Judges and Lawyers in Relation to Refugees and
Migrants, May 2017
OMCT, Non-refoulement: Achievements and Challenges, briefing paper, 2017
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