Can a refugee who has been forced to leave his country by his own government be denied refugee status?
Canada (Federal), Canada
The following excerpt is from Yousaf v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration), 2002 FCT 475 (CanLII):
In Minister of Employment and Immigration v. Villa Franca, 1950 N.R. 232 (F.C.A.) per Hugessen J.A. (as he then was), held at paragraph 7 that: [...] victims of terrorism do not become convention refugees simply because their governments have been unable to suppress the evil. Where, however, the state is so weak, and its control over all or part of its territory so tenuous as to make it a government in name only [...] a refugee may justly claim to be unable to avail himself of its protection."
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