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Case Law includes national and international jurisprudential decisions. Administrative bodies and tribunals are included.
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- Children-at-risk 10
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- Convention refugee 24
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- Country of origin information (COI) 24
- Credibility assessment 66
- Crimes against humanity 66
- Crimes against peace 2
- Criminal justice 39
- Cumulative grounds of persecution 4
- Death penalty 6
- Death squads 1
- Democracy 1
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- Deportation / Forcible return 101
- Diplomatic assurances 4
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- Domestic violence 25
- Drug trafficking 13
- Effective protection 15
- Effective remedy 4
- Equality before the law 2
- Evangelical 2
- Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 76
- Exclusion clauses 57
- Expulsion 4
- Extended definition 1
- Extreme poverty 1
- False documents 2
- Falun Gong 3
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- Female genital mutilation (FGM) 3
- Forced labour 1
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- Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 58
- Freedom of assembly and association 1
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- Freedom of expression 14
- Freedom of religion 3
- Freedom of speech 14
- Gang related violence 10
- Gender discrimination 1
- Gender-based persecution 15
- Genocide 1
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- Grounds for persecution 10
- HIV and AIDS 3
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- Human rights and fundamental freedoms 1
- Humanitarian protection (including tolerated stay) 1
- Immigration Detention 7
- Immigration law 1
- Inclusion clauses 2
- Independence of judiciary 1
- Internal armed conflict 5
- Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 28
- International armed conflict 1
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- International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 12
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- Juvenile justice system 1
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- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 21
- Mental health 6
- Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 32
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- Non-state agents of persecution 40
- Opposition 7
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- Passports 1
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- Persecution based on nationality 10
- Persecution based on political opinion 113
- Persecution of family members 13
- Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 12
- Persons not in need of international protection 3
- Police 5
- Political asylum 2
- Political parties 9
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 2
- Pre-entry procedures 1
- Pre-trial detention 2
- Prison or detention conditions 7
- Proof of nationality 2
- Prosecution vs persecution 19
- Public health 12
- Racial / Ethnic persecution 23
- Refoulement 1
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- Refugee camps 1
- Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 4
- Refugees 14
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- Rejected asylum-seekers 12
- Religious discrimination 3
- Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 33
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- Right to employment 1
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- Right to liberty and security 4
- Right to life 7
- Right to return 2
- Roma 7
- Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 40
- SGBV 23
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- Serb 1
- Serious non-political crime 19
- Sexual and reproductive rights 2
- Shia 2
- Single procedure 2
- Smuggling of persons 1
- Social group discrimination 1
- Social group persecution 53
- Standard of proof 12
- State protection 73
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- Tamil 33
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- Tibetan 3
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- Tutsis 5
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- Unlawful departure 3
- Visas 6
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- Well-founded fear of persecution 54
- Witnesses 6
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