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Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Abduction 42
Abuse of psychiatry 2
Access to procedures 1
Access to water 1
Acts of persecution 1
Albanians 6
Albinism/Persons with Albinism 9
Anti-terrorism law 8
Arabs 1
Arbitrary arrest and detention 43
Armed attacks on camps 10
Armed forces / Military 160
Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 285
Assyrians 2
Asylum-migration nexus 1
Asylum-seekers 48
Banyamulenge 1
Banyarwanda 1
Batwa 1
Bedoon 2
Border conflict 14
Border crossers 1
Buddhist 5
Camp management 3
Ceasefire 44
Cessation clauses 2
Chechen 5
Child soldiers 53
Children's rights 33
Children-at-risk 26
Christian 37
Civil and political rights 2
Civil war 10
Climate change (including environmental migrants) 2
Combatants / Former combatants 68
Communal conflict / Social conflict 42
Community development 1
Conflict prevention 2
Conflict resolution 39
Conflict situation 114
Contemporary forms of slavery 2
Corruption 19
Country of origin information (COI) 1
Coup d'état 9
Crimean Tatars 2
Crimes against humanity 37
Crimes against peace 2
Criminal justice 27
Death in custody 1
Death penalty 36
Demobilization / Disarmament 39
Democracy 5
Deportation / Forcible return 11
Disappeared persons 8
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 16
Domestic violence 7
Drug trafficking 2
Druze 4
Economic, social and cultural rights 3
Effective remedy 20
Elections 117
Embargo 4
Entry / Exit 2
Equality before the law 1
Ethiopians 4
Ethnic cleansing 1
Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 1
Exclusion clauses 1
Exhaustion of domestic remedies 1
Exiles 3
Expulsion 5
Extradition 4
Extrajudicial executions 35
Extreme poverty 5
Family reunification 3
Female genital mutilation (FGM) 7
Flight by land, air or sea 1
Forced labour 1
Forced marriage 4
Foreign occupation 5
Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 50
Freedom of assembly and association 41
Freedom of conscience 3
Freedom of expression 162
Freedom of information 108
Freedom of religion 6
Freedom of speech 97
Gender discrimination 2
Gender mainstreaming 1
Gender-based persecution 6
Genocide 7
Good governance 29
Good offices 1
Gross, systematic and large-scale 5
HIV and AIDS 7
Harmful traditional practices 6
Hema 1
Hindu 4
Honour killings 7
Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 4
Human Rights Council 1
Human rights activists 57
Human rights and fundamental freedoms 39
Human rights courts 1
Human rights law 3
Human rights monitors 10
Humanitarian assistance 83
Humanitarian protection (including tolerated stay) 1
Hutus 12
IDP camps 17
Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 3
Immigrants 2
Immigration Detention 1
Immigration law 1
Impunity 50
Independence of judiciary 3
Indigenous persons 2
Integration 3
Internal armed conflict 227
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 204
International armed conflict 9
International courts and tribunals 45
International criminal law 16
International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 7
Involuntary repatriation 1
Jehovah's Witness 1
Juvenile justice system 1
Kachin 2
Kurd 27
Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 3
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 29
Livelihoods 2
Location of camps 1
Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims 2
Mass exodus 1
Maternal and child health care 1
Mental health 1
Mercenaries 1
Migrant rights 6
Migrants 13
Military courts 10
Military law 1
Military operations 63
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 20
Minorities 3
Muslim 49
National security / Public order 1
Nepalis 1
Non-state agents of persecution 1
One-child policy / Family planning 2
Opposition 53
Orderly return 3
Palestinian 25
Peace agreements 51
Peace process 27
Peacekeeping 170
Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 1
Persecution based on political opinion 30
Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 17
Persons of concern to UNHCR 3
Persons with disabilities 5
Police 36
Political groups 4
Political parties 36
Political situation 141
Polygamy 3
Pre-trial detention 3
Prison or detention conditions 20
Property restitution 1
Prosecution vs persecution 1
Prostitution / Commercial sex work 1
Protection of camps 2
Protection of civilian persons in time of war 110
Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 53
Public health 13
Racial / Ethnic persecution 5
Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 3
Reconciliation 5
Referendum 12
Refugee camps 31
Refugees 206
Reintegration 11
Rejected asylum-seekers 1
Religious discrimination 4
Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 14
Resettlement 2
Return conditions 20
Returnees 31
Right to a nationality 2
Right to development 1
Right to education 5
Right to employment 1
Right to family life 1
Right to food 11
Right to health 6
Right to justice 8
Right to liberty and security 2
Right to life 1
Right to return 2
Right to seek asylum 2
Right to self-determination 2
Rohingya (Arakanese) 4
Roma 4
Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 18
Rwandans 3
SGBV 138
Safe country of origin 2
Salafi 4
Sanctions 11
Security forces 47
Security situation 355
Shabak 2
Sharia law 3
Shia 21
Sindhis 1
Small arms 6
Smuggling of persons 2
Social group discrimination 3
State of emergency 10
State protection 1
Statelessness 1
Sunni 11
Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 1
Tamil 7
Tatars 2
Terrorism 82
Threats / Intimidation 1
Tibetan 7
Torture 3
Trafficking in persons 15
Transit 1
Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 4
Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 3
Tuareg 3
Turkmen 2
Tutsis 4
Uighur 25
Unaccompanied / Separated children 2
Urban refugees 1
Visas 2
Voluntary repatriation 22
War crimes 79
Witnesses 1
Women's rights 50
Women-at-risk 16
Yazīdī 6

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