Country News
Short articles covering a specific situation in a country of origin. Most often reporting on specific human rights abuses or conflict situations.
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- Child Soldiers International 1
- Committee to Protect Journalists 2,467
- Council of Europe: Parliamentary Assembly 1
- Equal Rights Trust 2
- EurasiaNet 2,020
- Forum 18 2,016
- Freedom from Torture 1
- Freedom House 1
- Germany: Federal Office for Migration and Asylum 252
- Hague Conference on Private International Law 1
- HelpAge International 1
- Human Rights Watch 4,544
- Humanitarian Issues Working Group 1
- Hungarian Helsinki Committee 3
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- Institute for War and Peace Reporting 2,786
- Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) 5,231
- Inter-Agency Standing Committee 5
- Inter-Parliamentary Union 9
- International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) 22
- International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 314
- International Crisis Group (ICG) 66
- International Federation for Human Rights 1,823
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- Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre 4
- Italy: Italian Supreme Court (Corte Suprema di Cassazione) 1
- Jamestown Foundation 2,584
- Japan: District Courts 1
- Minority Rights Group International 89
- Norwegian Refugee Council/Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (NRC/IDMC) 183
- Open Society Institute (OSI) 1
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- Quaker United Nations Office 1
- Radio Free Asia 5,229
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 16,269
- REDRESS 4
- Refugees International 2
- Reporters Without Borders 5,155
- Swiss Refugee Council 1
- UN Ad Hoc Committee on Refugees and Stateless Persons 6
- UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) 31
- UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) 13
- UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) 3
- UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) 1
- UN General Assembly 3
- UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 1,341
- UN Human Rights Council 3
- UN Mission in Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) 2
- UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) 52
- UN Mission to South Sudan (UNMISS) 1
- UN News Service 7,390
- UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) 9
- UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) 11
- UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) 1
- UN Security Council 4
- UN World Health Organization (WHO) 1
- United Kingdom: Home Office 1
- United Nations 1
- United States Congressional Research Service 11
- World Organisation Against Torture 245
- Afghanistan 3,665
- Albania 82
- Algeria 175
- American Samoa 2
- Andorra 1
- Angola 127
- Anguilla 1
- Antigua and Barbuda 1
- Argentina 79
- Armenia 1,063
- Aruba 1
- Australia 101
- Austria 50
- Azerbaijan 1,891
- Bahamas 1
- Bahrain 546
- Bangladesh 448
- Barbados 3
- Belarus 1,076
- Belgium 33
- Belize 6
- Benin 48
- Bermuda 5
- Bhutan 18
- Bolivia 85
- Bosnia and Herzegovina 386
- Botswana 22
- Brazil 263
- Brunei Darussalam 5
- Bulgaria 88
- Burkina Faso 153
- Burundi 390
- Cambodia 1,079
- Cameroon 267
- Canada 51
- Cape Verde 4
- Cayman Islands 2
- Central African Republic 697
- Chad 291
- Chile 72
- China 4,628
- Colombia 461
- Comoros 23
- Congo, Democratic Republic of the 1,385
- Congo, Republic of the 89
- Costa Rica 11
- Croatia 129
- Cuba 184
- Cyprus 37
- Czech Republic 64
- Côte d'Ivoire 615
- Denmark 16
- Djibouti 70
- Dominica 1
- Dominican Republic 70
- Ecuador 113
- Egypt 1,594
- El Salvador 57
- Equatorial Guinea 52
- Eritrea 197
- Estonia 24
- Ethiopia 430
- Falkland Islands 2
- Fiji 33
- Finland 11
- France 214
- Gabon 45
- Gambia 171
- Georgia 1,499
- Germany 151
- Ghana 82
- Greece 141
- Grenada 4
- Guam 1
- Guatemala 141
- Guinea 243
- Guinea-Bissau 123
- Guyana 8
- Haiti 168
- Holy See (Vatican City State) 20
- Honduras 263
- Hong Kong (Special Administrative Region of China) 199
- Hungary 117
- Iceland 2
- India 589
- Indonesia 334
- Iran, Islamic Republic of 2,831
- Iraq 3,094
- Ireland 9
- Israel 986
- Italy 133
- Jamaica 26
- Japan 52
- Jordan 281
- Kazakhstan 1,559
- Kenya 797
- Kiribati 1
- Korea, Democratic People's Republic of 482
- Korea, Republic of 107
- Kuwait 122
- Kyrgyzstan 1,682
- Lao People's Democratic Republic 245
- Latvia 53
- Lebanon 575
- Lesotho 14
- Liberia 237
- Libya 1,327
- Liechtenstein 1
- Lithuania 64
- Luxembourg 2
- Macau (Special Administrative Region of China) 7
- Madagascar 75
- Malawi 65
- Malaysia 337
- Maldives 73
- Mali 632
- Malta 18
- Mauritania 149
- Mauritius 7
- Mexico 558
- Moldova, Republic of 330
- Monaco 1
- Mongolia 65
- Montenegro 51
- Montserrat 1
- Morocco 242
- Mozambique 52
- Myanmar 1,715
- Namibia 10
- Nauru 8
- Nepal 399
- Netherlands 86
- New Caledonia 1
- New Zealand 5
- Nicaragua 36
- Niger 214
- Nigeria 830
- Norway 19
- Oman 51
- Pakistan 2,579
- Palestine, State of 1,097
- Panama 27
- Papua New Guinea 63
- Paraguay 51
- Peru 116
- Philippines 455
- Poland 73
- Portugal 5
- Puerto Rico 2
- Qatar 60
- Romania 86
- Russian Federation 6,215
- Rwanda 255
- Saint Kitts and Nevis 2
- Saudi Arabia 488
- Senegal 185
- Serbia 800
- Sierra Leone 164
- Singapore 56
- Slovakia 40
- Slovenia 27
- Solomon Islands 2
- Somalia 1,528
- South Africa 238
- South Sudan 796
- Spain 61
- Sri Lanka 694
- Sudan 1,306
- Suriname 10
- Swaziland 70
- Sweden 53
- Switzerland 36
- Syrian Arab Republic 3,459
- Tajikistan 1,075
- Tanzania, United Republic of 117
- Thailand 640
- The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 181
- Timor-Leste (East Timor) 99
- Togo 88
- Tokelau 1
- Tonga 1
- Trinidad and Tobago 5
- Tunisia 580
- Turkey 1,240
- Turkmenistan 504
- Turks and Caicos Islands 2
- Tuvalu 1
- U.S. Virgin Islands 2
- Uganda 517
- Ukraine 2,233
- United Arab Emirates 162
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 267
- United States of America 1,660
- Uruguay 20
- Uzbekistan 1,242
- Vanuatu 5
- Venezuela 211
- Viet Nam 764
- Western Sahara Territory 48
- Yemen 1,238
- Zambia 79
- Zimbabwe 565
- 1951 Refugee Convention 1
- Abduction 777
- Abkhazians 80
- Abuse of psychiatry 79
- Access to procedures 56
- Access to water 228
- Acholi 1
- Acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations 5
- Acts of persecution 6
- Adivasis 3
- Administrative courts 8
- Adoption 27
- Adygey 1
- Afars 1
- Africans 14
- Afro-Colombians 5
- Age discrimination 4
- Ahmadis 63
- Ahwazi 12
- Airports 46
- Alawi 14
- Albanians 29
- Albinism/Persons with Albinism 25
- Alevis 1
- Aliens 6
- Amazonian Indians 3
- Anti-terrorism law 141
- Appeal / Right to appeal 78
- Arabs 79
- Arbitrary arrest and detention 2,498
- Armed attacks on camps 97
- Armed forces / Military 2,530
- Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 3,554
- Armenian 86
- Arrival 9
- Ashkaelian 2
- Assemblies of God 1
- Assyrians 12
- Asylum policy 33
- Asylum-migration nexus 80
- Asylum-seekers 673
- Avars 10
- Awá 4
- Azeri 47
- Baha'i 56
- Bail 43
- Balkars 9
- Baluchis 44
- Bantu 3
- Banyamulenge 2
- Banyarwanda 1
- Baptist 315
- Basarwa 2
- Bashkirs 3
- Basques 2
- Batwa 5
- Bedoon 38
- Belarusians 5
- Bengalis 9
- Berber 12
- Berti 1
- Bihari 4
- Blood feuds 3
- Bodos 1
- Border conflict 742
- Border controls 135
- Border crossers 148
- Bosnian 28
- Buddhist 182
- Bulgarians 2
- Burden-sharing and international co-operation 37
- Cabinda 3
- Caferis 1
- Camp management 37
- Capacity building of state institutions 16
- Catholic 134
- Ceasefire 450
- Cessation clauses 3
- Chakma 1
- Chaldean 6
- Cham 1
- Changes of circumstances in home country 1
- Chechen 397
- Cherkess 1
- Child labour 113
- Child prostitution 37
- Child soldiers 244
- Children's rights 711
- Children-at-risk 688
- Chin 17
- Chinese 23
- Chittagong Hill Tribes 8
- Christian 726
- Chukchi 1
- Chuvash 3
- Circassians 101
- Citizenship / Nationality law 11
- Civil and political rights 437
- Civil rights legislation 2
- Civil war 326
- Civilian character of asylum 1
- Climate change (including environmental migrants) 25
- Combatants / Former combatants 239
- Communal conflict / Social conflict 734
- Community development 14
- Complementary forms of protection 6
- Confidentiality 2
- Conflict prevention 98
- Conflict resolution 1,069
- Conflict situation 1,803
- Confucianist 1
- Constitutional law 20
- Contemporary forms of slavery 47
- Convention against Torture (CAT) 8
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 8
- Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CPRD) 1
- Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 5
- Convention refugee 1
- Copts 45
- Corruption 757
- Cossacks 35
- Country of origin information (COI) 16
- Coup d'état 171
- Credibility assessment 1
- Crime prevention 14
- Crimean Tatars 61
- Crimean Tatars 2
- Crimes against humanity 436
- Crimes against peace 6
- Criminal justice 1,821
- Croats 15
- Cumulative grounds of persecution 1
- Customary law 2
- Czechs 1
- Dalit 9
- Darfuri 5
- Dargins 6
- Death in custody 245
- Death penalty 1,145
- Death squads 35
- Demobilization / Disarmament 246
- Democracy 322
- Denial of nationality 7
- Denial of refugee status 10
- Deportation / Forcible return 466
- Dinka 6
- Dioula 1
- Diplomatic assurances 2
- Diplomatic protection 3
- Disappeared persons 737
- Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 445
- Domestic violence 146
- Drug trafficking 188
- Druze 10
- Economic, social and cultural rights 291
- Effective protection 9
- Effective remedy 550
- Egyptians 7
- Election law 47
- Elections 2,973
- Embargo 70
- Embera 1
- Emergency legislation 16
- Emigrants 22
- Endorois 3
- Entry / Exit 16
- Enxet 1
- Equal opportunities 30
- Equality before the law 16
- Eritreans 38
- Ethiopians 40
- Ethnic cleansing 33
- Evacuation 20
- Evangelical 13
- Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 11
- Exclusion clauses 3
- Exhaustion of domestic remedies 3
- Exiles 153
- Expedited procedures 4
- Expulsion 88
- Extradition 202
- Extrajudicial executions 1,087
- Extreme poverty 142
- False documents 8
- Falun Gong 19
- Family law 6
- Family reunification 22
- Female genital mutilation (FGM) 69
- Filipinos 6
- Flight by land, air or sea 67
- Forced labour 163
- Forced marriage 101
- Forced relocation 30
- Forced sterilization / Abortion 61
- Foreign occupation 274
- Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 1,475
- Freedom of assembly and association 2,251
- Freedom of conscience 425
- Freedom of expression 13,180
- Freedom of information 8,633
- Freedom of movement 374
- Freedom of religion 2,754
- Freedom of speech 7,239
- Fulani 12
- Fur 1
- Gaboye 1
- Gagauz 6
- Galicians 1
- Gang related violence 32
- Gender discrimination 228
- Gender mainstreaming 28
- Gender-based persecution 99
- Generalized violence 48
- Genocide 233
- Germans 4
- Good governance 1,437
- Good offices 7
- Greeks 1
- Gross, systematic and large-scale 33
- HIV and AIDS 221
- Habeas corpus 5
- Haitians 21
- Han 16
- Hare Krishna 63
- Harmful traditional practices 94
- Hazara 19
- Hema 1
- Hijacking 9
- Hindu 33
- Hmong 30
- Honour killings 56
- Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 904
- Human Rights Council 117
- Human rights activists 3,555
- Human rights and fundamental freedoms 1,947
- Human rights courts 57
- Human rights law 52
- Human rights monitors 652
- Humanitarian assistance 1,648
- Humanitarian protection (including tolerated stay) 7
- Hungarians 4
- Hutus 30
- IDP camps 221
- Illegal entry 10
- Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 102
- Illegitimate children 1
- Immigrants 56
- Immigration Detention 130
- Immigration control after entry 7
- Immigration law 4
- Immunity 75
- Impunity 1,114
- Income-generating projects 2
- Independence of judiciary 244
- Indians 2
- Indigenous persons 233
- Ingush 101
- Integration 67
- Internal armed conflict 3,106
- Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 4
- Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 2,755
- International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CPED) 5
- International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) 1
- International Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers (ICRMW) 4
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 11
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) 3
- International armed conflict 289
- International courts and tribunals 524
- International criminal law 123
- International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 229
- International protection 9
- Involuntary repatriation 29
- Iranians 41
- Jain 1
- Japanese 6
- Jehovah's Witness 401
- Jew 82
- Jurisdiction 7
- Juvenile justice system 71
- Kabards 10
- Kachin 118
- Kalenjin 6
- Karachay 12
- Karen 33
- Kashmiris 19
- Kazakhs 21
- Khakass 5
- Khmer 5
- Khmer Krom 4
- Kikuyu 3
- Komi 4
- Koreans 8
- Kosovar 150
- Krou 1
- Kuchi 4
- Kumyks 7
- Kuna 1
- Kurd 531
- Labour law 16
- Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 236
- Law of the sea 1
- Laws relating to religion 167
- Legal representation / Legal aid 46
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 685
- Lezgin 4
- Livelihoods 178
- Location of camps 3
- Luo 2
- Lutheran 5
- Maasai 3
- Macedonians 1
- Malays 7
- Malinke / Mandingo 1
- Mandate status 2
- Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims 4
- Mapuche 12
- Maronite 2
- Mass exodus 16
- Massaleit 1
- Maternal and child health care 165
- Mayans 2
- Mbororo 1
- Medical screening 5
- Melanesians 1
- Memoranda of understanding (MOU) 2
- Mende 1
- Mennonite 4
- Mental harm 1
- Mental health 73
- Mentally disadvantaged persons 19
- Mercenaries 14
- Merina 1
- Meskhetians 10
- Messianic Jews 1
- Methodist 9
- Migrant rights 186
- Migrants 717
- Military courts 167
- Military law 75
- Military operations 1,375
- Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 271
- Minorities 832
- Minority rights 153
- Mon 7
- Mongols 53
- Montagnards 30
- Mormon 4
- Moros 1
- Multiple nationality 17
- Muslim 1,643
- National security / Public order 182
- Naturalization 3
- Nepalis 4
- Nogai 6
- Nomads 16
- Non-refoulement 46
- Non-self-governing territories 20
- Non-state agents of persecution 47
- Nuba 5
- Nuer 13
- Ogaden 1
- Older persons 23
- One-child policy / Family planning 28
- Opposition 2,900
- Orang Asli 1
- Orderly return 24
- Oromo 6
- Orthodox Christian 224
- Ossetians (South) 109
- Palestinian 571
- Pamiris 1
- Panjshiris 1
- Papuans 20
- Pashtun 27
- Passports 50
- Pastoralists 1
- Peace agreements 486
- Peace process 990
- Peacekeeping 936
- Pentecostal 38
- Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 102
- Persecution based on nationality 9
- Persecution based on political opinion 1,063
- Persecution of family members 101
- Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 320
- Persons not in need of international protection 14
- Persons of concern to UNHCR 25
- Persons with disabilities 121
- Physical harm 1
- Piracy 29
- Poles 16
- Police 1,359
- Political asylum 37
- Political groups 684
- Political parties 1,473
- Political situation 5,603
- Polygamy 17
- Population transfers 5
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 9
- Pre-trial detention 234
- Presbyterian 27
- Prevention of discrimination 26
- Prison or detention conditions 983
- Prisoners of war 71
- Proof of nationality 1
- Property restitution 32
- Prosecution vs persecution 154
- Prostitution / Commercial sex work 76
- Protection of camps 28
- Protection of civilian persons in time of war 1,257
- Protestant 340
- Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 1,728
- Public health 485
- Punjabis 2
- Racial / Ethnic persecution 174
- Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 45
- Ratification 2
- Re-entry 2
- Reception 40
- Reconciliation 345
- Referendum 197
- Refoulement 34
- Refugee / Asylum law 26
- Refugee camps 481
- Refugee identity documents 16
- Refugee seamen 145
- Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 19
- Refugees 2,576
- Refugees sur place 1
- Regional instruments 1
- Registration 42
- Reintegration 70
- Rejected asylum-seekers 20
- Rejection at border 18
- Religious discrimination 1,360
- Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 409
- Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 63
- Resettlement 154
- Residence permits / Residency 31
- Return conditions 181
- Returnees 348
- Right to a nationality 27
- Right to development 10
- Right to education 466
- Right to employment 128
- Right to family life 29
- Right to food 330
- Right to health 295
- Right to justice 254
- Right to leave 6
- Right to liberty and security 31
- Right to life 88
- Right to registration at birth 19
- Right to return 24
- Right to seek asylum 83
- Right to self-determination 143
- Rights of non-citizens 15
- Rohingya (Arakanese) 282
- Roma 130
- Romanians 1
- Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 1,152
- Russians 128
- Rwandans 7
- SGBV 799
- Sabean Mandean 9
- Safe country of origin 14
- Safe third country 7
- Saharawis 20
- Salafi 106
- Sale of children 28
- Sami 2
- San Bushmen 1
- Sanctions 284
- Scientologist 2
- Secondary movement 4
- Security forces 1,740
- Security situation 6,523
- Serb 78
- Serious non-political crime 43
- Seventh Day Adventist 42
- Sexual and reproductive rights 130
- Shabak 22
- Shamanism 1
- Shan 24
- Sharia law 66
- Shia 401
- Signatories and Parties 1
- Sikh 11
- Sindhis 3
- Single heads of household 2
- Sinhalese 6
- Slavs 10
- Small arms 83
- Smuggling of persons 81
- Social group discrimination 88
- Social group persecution 26
- Somalis 222
- Spontaneous return 6
- Standard of proof 3
- State of emergency 109
- State protection 34
- Statelessness 91
- Sufi 57
- Sunni 341
- Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 29
- Tajik 41
- Talysh 4
- Tamil 122
- Taoist 1
- Tatars 173
- Temporary admission 6
- Temporary protection 6
- Terrorism 3,124
- Threats / Intimidation 141
- Tibetan 864
- Tiv 2
- Torres Strait Islanders 1
- Torture 437
- Trafficking in persons 290
- Transgression of social / cultural norms 4
- Transit 13
- Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 216
- Travel documents 8
- Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 53
- Tuareg 88
- Turkmen 50
- Turks 9
- Tutsis 24
- Uighur 680
- Ukrainians 13
- Unaccompanied / Separated children 58
- Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 62
- Unlawful departure 1
- Urban refugees 27
- Urueu-Wau-Wau 1
- Uzbek 183
- Vietnamese 6
- Visas 83
- Voluntary repatriation 144
- War crimes 733
- Well-founded fear of persecution 7
- Widowed persons 5
- Witchcraft 6
- Withdrawal of nationality 7
- Witnesses 64
- Women's rights 1,012
- Women-at-risk 323
- Work permits 12
- Yazīdī 86
- Zoroastrian 5
- Zulus 1
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