1. What is international protection

For the full AsylEasy videoguide and audio recordings, available in English, French, Italian, Farsi, Tigrinya and Arabic, visit http://www.asyleasy.com This video explains what international protection means, in which situations you can ask for protection, and in which cases Italy grants international protection. Italy has signed the Geneva Convention, an international law that establishes the duty of each signatory state to protect those that run away from their country because of fear of persecution. The definition of persecution as presented by the Geneva Convention calls for protection for those forced to leave their country for political reasons, religious reasons, racial reasons, reasons of nationality, or reasons connected with belonging to a particular social group. Also when a person is forced to leave their country for fear of “serious harm”, Italy can grant the asylum seeker the possibility to obtain Subsidiary Protection. The video defines “serious harm”. The possibility that an asylum seeker flees from their country without their documents means that they must urgently present themselves to the police on their arrival in Italy.