Pakistan

Abduction 148
Abuse of psychiatry 2
Access to procedures 7
Access to water 12
Administrative courts 1
Administrative law 1
Adoption 1
Africans 3
Ahmadis 157
Airports 11
Alawi 2
Albanians 6
Aliens 1
Anglican 1
Animist 4
Anti-terrorism law 28
Appeal / Right to appeal 2
Arabs 2
Arbitrary arrest and detention 117
Armed attacks on camps 13
Armed forces / Military 290
Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 868
Asylum policy 5
Asylum-migration nexus 3
Asylum-seekers 71
Atheist / Agnostic 1
Baha'i 13
Bail 8
Baluchis 64
Bedoon 3
Bengalis 4
Bihari 3
Blood feuds 1
Border conflict 108
Border controls 10
Border crossers 8
Buddhist 23
Burden-sharing and international co-operation 4
Camp management 3
Catholic 11
Ceasefire 87
Chechen 14
Child labour 39
Child prostitution 22
Child soldiers 29
Children's rights 115
Children-at-risk 97
Christian 157
Citizenship / Nationality law 1
Civil and political rights 13
Civil war 26
Civilian character of asylum 2
Climate change (including environmental migrants) 5
Combatants / Former combatants 14
Communal conflict / Social conflict 91
Conflict prevention 1
Conflict resolution 19
Conflict situation 72
Constitutional law 3
Contemporary forms of slavery 6
Convention against Torture (CAT) 2
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 3
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 4
Convention refugee 1
Copts 1
Corruption 77
Country of origin information (COI) 5
Coup d'état 27
Crimean Tatars 2
Crimes against humanity 12
Crimes against peace 1
Criminal justice 59
Customary law 2
Dalit 5
Death in custody 4
Death penalty 211
Demobilization / Disarmament 10
Democracy 20
Denial of refugee status 1
Deportation / Forcible return 39
Disappeared persons 91
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 71
Domestic violence 47
Drug trafficking 15
Druze 4
Economic, social and cultural rights 24
Effective protection 3
Effective remedy 14
Election law 4
Elections 218
Embargo 2
Emergency legislation 3
Emigrants 6
Entry / Exit 8
Entry into force 1
Equal opportunities 3
Equality before the law 3
Eritreans 1
Ethiopians 4
Evacuation 1
Evangelical 1
Exhaustion of domestic remedies 1
Exiles 8
Expulsion 7
Extradition 4
Extrajudicial executions 134
Extreme poverty 8
False documents 12
Falun Gong 3
Family law 2
Family reunification 4
Female genital mutilation (FGM) 14
Flight by land, air or sea 5
Forced labour 41
Forced marriage 47
Forced relocation 3
Forced sterilization / Abortion 1
Foreign occupation 12
Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 97
Freedom of assembly and association 141
Freedom of conscience 8
Freedom of expression 563
Freedom of information 288
Freedom of movement 52
Freedom of religion 214
Freedom of speech 208
Fulani 7
Gang related violence 5
Gender discrimination 61
Gender mainstreaming 2
Gender-based persecution 19
Generalized violence 15
Genocide 4
Good governance 63
Good offices 1
Gross, systematic and large-scale 1
Group / Prima facie determination 1
HIV and AIDS 22
Habeas corpus 1
Habitual residence 2
Han 1
Harmful traditional practices 23
Hazara 25
Hindu 54
Honour killings 59
Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 26
Human Rights Council 13
Human rights activists 98
Human rights and fundamental freedoms 129
Human rights law 2
Human rights monitors 16
Humanitarian assistance 94
IDP camps 45
Illegal entry 5
Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 10
Illegitimate children 2
Immigrants 9
Immigration Detention 10
Immigration law 1
Impunity 59
Independence of judiciary 53
Indigenous persons 8
Integration 3
Internal armed conflict 168
Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 11
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 287
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 5
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) 1
International armed conflict 13
International courts and tribunals 11
International criminal law 4
International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 10
International protection 4
Involuntary repatriation 1
Ismaili 2
Jain 6
Jehovah's Witness 2
Jew 7
Jurisdiction 1
Juvenile justice system 11
Kachin 7
Kashmiris 39
Khmer 1
Kurd 52
Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 14
Laws relating to religion 9
Legal representation / Legal aid 5
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 96
Livelihoods 6
Location of camps 10
Mandate status 3
Maronite 2
Maternal and child health care 12
Mental health 8
Mentally disadvantaged persons 6
Migrant rights 3
Migrants 39
Military courts 22
Military law 8
Military operations 309
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 39
Minorities 117
Minority rights 26
Mohajirs 71
Multiple nationality 1
Muslim 310
National security / Public order 11
Nepalis 2
Non-refoulement 6
Non-state agents of persecution 16
Older persons 4
One-child policy / Family planning 4
Opposition 100
Orderly return 1
Orthodox Christian 1
Palestinian 50
Pashtun 25
Passports 12
Peace agreements 46
Peace process 69
Peacekeeping 24
Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 15
Persecution based on nationality 1
Persecution based on political opinion 93
Persecution of family members 5
Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 55
Persons not in need of international protection 1
Persons of concern to UNHCR 6
Persons with disabilities 28
Police 157
Political groups 57
Political parties 144
Political situation 288
Polygamy 5
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 1
Pre-trial detention 15
Prevention of discrimination 1
Prison or detention conditions 52
Proof of nationality 1
Property restitution 1
Prostitution / Commercial sex work 12
Protection of camps 2
Protection of civilian persons in time of war 56
Protestant 2
Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 152
Public health 77
Punjabis 8
Racial / Ethnic persecution 17
Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 3
Ratification 1
Reception 5
Reconciliation 5
Referendum 21
Refoulement 7
Refugee / Asylum law 10
Refugee camps 37
Refugee identity documents 12
Refugee seamen 3
Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 4
Refugee travel documents / CTDs 2
Refugees 248
Refugees sur place 1
Registration 13
Reintegration 8
Rejected asylum-seekers 7
Rejection at border 2
Religious discrimination 138
Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 143
Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 2
Resettlement 3
Residence permits / Residency 17
Return conditions 38
Returnees 57
Right to a nationality 15
Right to development 2
Right to education 72
Right to employment 20
Right to family life 6
Right to food 14
Right to health 23
Right to justice 16
Right to leave 1
Right to liberty and security 4
Right to life 10
Right to registration at birth 5
Right to seek asylum 5
Right to self-determination 9
Rights of non-citizens 6
Rohingya (Arakanese) 12
Roma 7
Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 73
SGBV 128
Safe country of origin 6
Salafi 11
Sale of children 12
Sanctions 18
Secondary movement 3
Security forces 147
Security situation 504
Serb 2
Serious non-political crime 1
Sexual and reproductive rights 9
Shan 2
Sharia law 15
Shia 188
Sikh 31
Sindhis 9
Single heads of household 2
Small arms 2
Smuggling of persons 13
Social group discrimination 35
Social group persecution 5
Somalis 3
Spontaneous return 2
State of emergency 26
State protection 49
Statelessness 6
Sufi 23
Sunni 126
Sur place persecution 1
Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 8
Tamil 11
Tatars 2
Temporary protection 1
Terrorism 669
Threats / Intimidation 14
Tibetan 13
Tiv 2
Torture 27
Trafficking in persons 94
Transit 2
Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 3
Travel documents 3
Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 3
Tuareg 5
Turkmen 3
UNHCR mandate 2
Uighur 55
Unaccompanied / Separated children 5
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 12
Urban refugees 4
Uzbek 1
Visas 14
Voluntary repatriation 30
War crimes 30
Well-founded fear of persecution 1
Witchcraft 2
Witnesses 6
Women's rights 179
Women-at-risk 64
Work permits 7
Yazīdī 6
Zoroastrian 15

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Over 300,000 refugees and migrants cross Med so far in 2016 20 September 2016 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Country News
Ban condemns militant attack in India-administered Jammu and Kashmir 18 September 2016 \| Publisher: UN News Service \| Document type: Country News
Pakistan's Jamaat-ul-Ahrar: A Violent Domestic Threat 16 September 2016 \| Publisher: Jamestown Foundation \| Document type: Country News
Pakistan: Coerced Refugee Return Endangers Thousands 14 September 2016 \| Publisher: Human Rights Watch \| Document type: Country News
Afghanistan overwhelmed as refugees return from Pakistan 13 September 2016 \| Publisher: Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) \| Document type: Country News
Report of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, Addendum : Follow-up report to the recommendations made by the Working Group : Missions to Congo and Pakistan 13 September 2016 \| Publisher: UN Human Rights Council \| Document type: Mission Reports
Update on Return of Afghan Refugees from Pakistan, 5 September 2016 5 September 2016 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: UNHCR Country Updates
Pakistan charges ex-husband, father with British woman's murder 3 September 2016 \| Publisher: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty \| Document type: Country News
UN Secretary-General condemns deadly terrorist attacks in northern Pakistan 2 September 2016 \| Publisher: UN News Service \| Document type: Country News
Armed men attack Christian enclave in Pakistan; at least four dead 2 September 2016 \| Publisher: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty \| Document type: Country News

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