AF (Kiribati)

COURT OR TRIBUNAL

New Zealand Immigration and Protection Tribunal

DATE FILED (OR FIRST HEARING DATE)

25/06/2013

LITIGATION TYPE

Constitutional and Human Rights / State Accountability

SUBJECT MATTER

Human rights and refugee claims

REVIEW TYPE

Merits review

SUMMARY

(Excerpt from judgment)

[1] This is an appeal against a decision of a refugee and protection officer, declining to grant refugee status and/or protected person status to the appellant, a citizen of Kiribati.

[2] The appellant claims an entitlement to be recognised as a refugee on the basis of changes to his environment in Kiribati caused by sea-level-rise associated with climate change... The issue for determination is whether the appellant is able to bring himself within the Refugee Convention or New Zealand’s protected person jurisdiction on this basis.

CASE DOCUMENTS

AF (Kiribati) [2013] NZIPT 800413