Burkina Faso

Abduction 3
Access to procedures 5
Airports 1
Animist 5
Anti-terrorism law 4
Arbitrary arrest and detention 32
Armed attacks on camps 1
Armed forces / Military 19
Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 12
Asylum-migration nexus 1
Asylum-seekers 12
Border conflict 19
Border controls 1
Border crossers 6
Burden-sharing and international co-operation 2
Camp management 1
Capacity building of state institutions 7
Catholic 9
Ceasefire 8
Child labour 31
Child prostitution 13
Child soldiers 3
Children's rights 47
Children-at-risk 26
Christian 11
Citizenship / Nationality law 2
Civil and political rights 3
Civil war 2
Climate change (including environmental migrants) 1
Communal conflict / Social conflict 5
Community development 1
Conflict prevention 1
Conflict resolution 5
Conflict situation 12
Constitutional law 1
Contemporary forms of slavery 1
Convention against Torture (CAT) 2
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 1
Corruption 11
Coup d'état 16
Criminal justice 7
Death in custody 2
Death penalty 12
Democracy 6
Disappeared persons 17
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 23
Domestic violence 4
Drug trafficking 5
Economic, social and cultural rights 18
Effective protection 1
Effective remedy 3
Elections 39
Equal opportunities 1
Equality before the law 2
Extrajudicial executions 18
Extreme poverty 5
Family law 1
Female genital mutilation (FGM) 19
Forced labour 33
Forced marriage 6
Forced sterilization / Abortion 1
Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 22
Freedom of assembly and association 42
Freedom of conscience 2
Freedom of expression 77
Freedom of information 33
Freedom of movement 24
Freedom of religion 43
Freedom of speech 29
Gang related violence 1
Gender discrimination 26
Gender mainstreaming 3
Gender-based persecution 1
Generalized violence 2
Good governance 13
HIV and AIDS 6
Harmful traditional practices 5
Honour killings 2
Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 3
Human Rights Council 5
Human rights activists 7
Human rights and fundamental freedoms 42
Human rights courts 1
Human rights monitors 2
Humanitarian assistance 17
Immigrants 1
Immigration Detention 2
Immunity 1
Impunity 11
Independence of judiciary 6
Integration 4
Internal armed conflict 12
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 40
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CPED) 1
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) 3
International Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers (ICRMW) 2
International courts and tribunals 2
International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 1
International protection 2
Juvenile justice system 1
Kachin 2
Kurd 4
Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 2
Legal representation / Legal aid 2
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 10
Livelihoods 3
Location of camps 5
Maternal and child health care 7
Migrant rights 6
Migrants 14
Military law 1
Military operations 6
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 2
Minorities 9
Mossi-Dagomba 2
Multiple nationality 1
Muslim 15
Naturalization 1
Nomads 1
Non-refoulement 1
Older persons 1
Opposition 9
Orderly return 1
Palestinian 2
Peace agreements 1
Peace process 2
Peacekeeping 5
Persecution based on nationality 1
Persecution based on political opinion 11
Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 4
Persons of concern to UNHCR 1
Persons with disabilities 15
Piracy 2
Police 19
Political groups 2
Political parties 11
Political situation 47
Prison or detention conditions 16
Proof of nationality 1
Prostitution / Commercial sex work 7
Protection of civilian persons in time of war 6
Protestant 9
Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 20
Public health 7
Racial / Ethnic persecution 4
Reconciliation 3
Referendum 2
Refugee / Asylum law 7
Refugee camps 7
Refugee seamen 2
Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 4
Refugees 84
Regional instruments 5
Registration 4
Religious discrimination 22
Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 14
Resettlement 4
Residence permits / Residency 8
Return conditions 1
Returnees 4
Right to a nationality 7
Right to development 1
Right to education 9
Right to employment 8
Right to food 6
Right to health 11
Right to justice 1
Right to registration at birth 2
Right to self-determination 3
Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 11
SGBV 29
Safe country of origin 2
Salafi 2
Sale of children 2
Security forces 27
Security situation 47
Sexual and reproductive rights 4
Shia 8
Small arms 1
Smuggling of persons 1
Social group discrimination 17
Social group persecution 1
State of emergency 1
Statelessness 10
Sunni 16
Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 6
Tamil 2
Terrorism 30
Threats / Intimidation 1
Torture 4
Trafficking in persons 56
Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 2
Travel documents 2
Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 17
Tuareg 5
Uighur 2
Unaccompanied / Separated children 2
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 6
Urban refugees 2
Voluntary repatriation 4
War crimes 4
Widowed persons 4
Witchcraft 2
Women's rights 37
Women-at-risk 22

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UNHCR & ECOWAS, Summary of the Ministerial regional conference on statelessness in West Africa, 23-25 February 2015 February 2015 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Conference Reports
"Just what were they thinking when they shot at people?" Crackdown on anti-government protests in Burkina Faso 15 January 2015 \| Publisher: Amnesty International \| Document type: Country News
Accord Tripartite entre le Gouvernement du Burkina Faso, le Gouvernement de la Republique du Mali et le Haut-Commissariat des Nations Unies pour les Refugies pour le rapatriement volontaire des refugies Maliens vivant au Burkina Faso 9 January 2015 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Multilateral Treaties/Agreements
Report of the Secretary-General on the activities of the United Nations Office for West Africa 24 December 2014 \| Publisher: UN Security Council \| Document type: Regional Reports
As Sahel faces mounting threats, UN envoy urges Security Council to remain engaged in region 11 December 2014 \| Publisher: UN News Service \| Document type: Country News
Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 29, paragraph 1, of the Convention, Reports of States parties due in 2012 : Burkina Faso 8 December 2014 \| Publisher: UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) \| Document type: States Parties Reports
Informationszentrum Asyl und Migration Briefing Notes (1 December 2014) 1 December 2014 \| Publisher: Germany: Federal Office for Migration and Asylum \| Document type: Country News
Information Centre Asylum and Migration Briefing Notes (1 December 2014) 1 December 2014 \| Publisher: Germany: Federal Office for Migration and Asylum \| Document type: Country News
Stateless and crying for help from the beloved country 27 November 2014 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Country News
Will light now be shed on journalist Norbert Zongo's 1998 murder? 26 November 2014 \| Publisher: Reporters Without Borders \| Document type: Country News

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