AF (Tuvalu)

COURT OR TRIBUNAL

New Zealand Immigration and Protection Tribunal

DATE FILED (OR FIRST HEARING DATE)

20/10/2015

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 Tuvalu.

[2] The appellant claims that there is a real chance of being persecuted if returned to Tuvalu in relation to a breach of his right to work, right to safe water and under the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child.

CASE DOCUMENTS

AF (Tuvalu) [2015] NZIPT 800859

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