Another contribution to the multi-disciplinary outputs of the CREDO project

The Hungarian Helsinki Committee (HHC) has just published Credibility Assessment in Asylum Procedures – A Multidisciplinary Training Manual. The manual is written by international experts within the framework of the “CREDO” project (funded by the European Commission), in cooperation with the UNHCR. 

CSEL is very pleased to have contributed a chapter, Memory and its Limitations, looking at what we know about memory for autobiographical events - which plays such a crucial role in applications for state protection.

HHC said in their announcement:
"Credibility assessment is undoubtedly one of the most challenging aspects of asylum decision-making. An important part of claims for international protection are rejected based on the justification that the determining authority or court does not believe what the applicant says. While in recent decades there has been spectacular advancement regarding the legal standards and relevant concepts of international refugee law, credibility has to some extent remained out of focus. This training manual aims to fill an important gap, by offering a creative, multidisciplinary learning method on credibility assessment, tailored to the needs of asylum decision-makers and other asylum professionals.

The manual is freely available online at http://helsinki.hu/wp-content/uploads/Credibility-Assessment-in-Asylum-Procedures-CREDO-manual.pdf, as well as at http://www.refworld.org/docid/5253bd9a4.html.