Country News
Short articles covering a specific situation in a country of origin. Most often reporting on specific human rights abuses or conflict situations.
- Amnesty International 162
- Article 19 62
- Asylum Aid 8
- Committee to Protect Journalists 107
- Council of Europe: Parliamentary Assembly 1
- Equal Rights Trust 1
- EurasiaNet 162
- Forum 18 337
- Germany: Federal Office for Migration and Asylum 136
- Human Rights Watch 230
- Institute for Research on Public Policy 1
- Institute for War and Peace Reporting 43
- Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) 3
- International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) 1
- International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 1
- International Crisis Group (ICG) 1
- International Federation for Human Rights 74
- Jamestown Foundation 1,243
- Minority Rights Group International 2
- Norwegian Refugee Council/Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (NRC/IDMC) 2
- Open Society Foundations (OSF) 1
- Radio Free Asia 12
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 4,413
- Reporters Without Borders 146
- UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) 1
- UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 8
- UN News Service 41
- World Organisation Against Torture 15
- Abduction 53
- Abkhazians 40
- Abuse of psychiatry 20
- Access to procedures 4
- Access to water 1
- Adoption 16
- Adygey 1
- Ahmadis 1
- Airports 15
- Alawi 3
- Albanians 2
- Albinism/Persons with Albinism 3
- Anti-terrorism law 13
- Appeal / Right to appeal 5
- Arbitrary arrest and detention 99
- Armed attacks on camps 5
- Armed forces / Military 505
- Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 489
- Armenian 8
- Assyrians 3
- Asylum policy 1
- Asylum-seekers 28
- Avars 11
- Azeri 8
- Bail 1
- Balkars 9
- Baptist 19
- Bashkirs 2
- Bedoon 2
- Belarusians 2
- Blood feuds 1
- Border conflict 34
- Border controls 13
- Border crossers 7
- Buddhist 17
- Catholic 24
- Ceasefire 99
- Chechen 397
- Cherkess 1
- Child soldiers 4
- Children's rights 9
- Children-at-risk 12
- Chinese 1
- Christian 68
- Chukchi 1
- Chuvash 3
- Circassians 94
- Citizenship / Nationality law 1
- Civil and political rights 74
- Civil war 36
- Climate change (including environmental migrants) 2
- Combatants / Former combatants 4
- Communal conflict / Social conflict 64
- Conflict prevention 4
- Conflict resolution 20
- Conflict situation 82
- Contemporary forms of slavery 3
- Corruption 119
- Cossacks 29
- Country of origin information (COI) 1
- Coup d'état 8
- Crime prevention 1
- Crimean Tatars 53
- Crimes against humanity 3
- Criminal justice 73
- Dargins 7
- Death in custody 29
- Death penalty 46
- Death squads 2
- Demobilization / Disarmament 10
- Democracy 8
- Deportation / Forcible return 33
- Disappeared persons 32
- Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 83
- Domestic violence 3
- Drug trafficking 14
- Druze 2
- Economic, social and cultural rights 22
- Effective remedy 15
- Election law 1
- Elections 212
- Embargo 6
- Emigrants 4
- Entry / Exit 4
- Equality before the law 1
- Ethiopians 4
- Ethnic cleansing 3
- Evacuation 4
- Evangelical 2
- Exiles 8
- Expulsion 12
- Extradition 60
- Extrajudicial executions 75
- Extreme poverty 1
- False documents 2
- Falun Gong 6
- Female genital mutilation (FGM) 2
- Flight by land, air or sea 4
- Forced labour 6
- Forced marriage 5
- Forced relocation 1
- Forced sterilization / Abortion 2
- Foreign occupation 74
- Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 88
- Freedom of assembly and association 274
- Freedom of conscience 25
- Freedom of expression 729
- Freedom of information 419
- Freedom of movement 26
- Freedom of religion 395
- Freedom of speech 277
- Fulani 4
- Gagauz 1
- Gang related violence 6
- Gender discrimination 5
- Generalized violence 3
- Genocide 11
- Germans 1
- Good governance 101
- HIV and AIDS 11
- Han 1
- Hare Krishna 14
- Harmful traditional practices 2
- Hijacking 1
- Hindu 9
- Honour killings 1
- Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 19
- Human Rights Council 7
- Human rights activists 337
- Human rights and fundamental freedoms 110
- Human rights courts 16
- Human rights law 4
- Human rights monitors 125
- Humanitarian assistance 36
- Humanitarian protection (including tolerated stay) 1
- Illegal entry 1
- Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 15
- Immigrants 16
- Immigration Detention 3
- Immigration control after entry 2
- Immigration law 2
- Immunity 4
- Impunity 47
- Independence of judiciary 12
- Indigenous persons 5
- Ingush 100
- Integration 7
- Internal armed conflict 743
- Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 24
- International Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers (ICRMW) 2
- International armed conflict 19
- International courts and tribunals 25
- International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 1
- Involuntary repatriation 1
- Jehovah's Witness 97
- Jew 14
- Jurisdiction 1
- Kabards 12
- Kachin 4
- Kalmyks 1
- Karachay 12
- Kazakhs 2
- Khakass 5
- Komi 5
- Kosovar 3
- Kumyks 5
- Kurd 27
- Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 18
- Law of the sea 1
- Laws relating to religion 24
- Legal representation / Legal aid 2
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 165
- Lezgin 6
- Livelihoods 2
- Lutheran 3
- Maronite 2
- Mass exodus 1
- Maternal and child health care 3
- Mental health 3
- Mentally disadvantaged persons 1
- Mercenaries 5
- Meskhetians 1
- Methodist 4
- Migrant rights 19
- Migrants 110
- Military courts 8
- Military operations 192
- Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 41
- Minorities 67
- Minority rights 3
- Mormon 3
- Multiple nationality 6
- Muslim 333
- National security / Public order 36
- Naturalization 2
- Nepalis 2
- Nogai 6
- Non-refoulement 5
- Non-self-governing territories 9
- Non-state agents of persecution 2
- Nuer 2
- Opposition 369
- Orthodox Christian 68
- Ossetians (South) 70
- Palestinian 23
- Passports 5
- Peace agreements 35
- Peace process 109
- Peacekeeping 32
- Pentecostal 12
- Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 11
- Persecution based on nationality 2
- Persecution based on political opinion 88
- Persecution of family members 5
- Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 59
- Persons with disabilities 10
- Piracy 8
- Poles 1
- Police 188
- Political asylum 12
- Political groups 46
- Political parties 117
- Political situation 431
- Polygamy 3
- Pre-trial detention 38
- Prevention of discrimination 2
- Prison or detention conditions 46
- Prisoners of war 77
- Property restitution 1
- Prosecution vs persecution 12
- Prostitution / Commercial sex work 3
- Protection of civilian persons in time of war 38
- Protestant 38
- Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 179
- Public health 18
- Racial / Ethnic persecution 28
- Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 7
- Reconciliation 2
- Referendum 29
- Refoulement 1
- Refugee / Asylum law 1
- Refugee camps 16
- Refugee seamen 2
- Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 1
- Refugees 76
- Rejected asylum-seekers 1
- Rejection at border 1
- Religious discrimination 195
- Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 66
- Resettlement 2
- Residence permits / Residency 7
- Return conditions 2
- Returnees 2
- Right to a nationality 1
- Right to development 1
- Right to education 5
- Right to employment 3
- Right to food 3
- Right to health 13
- Right to justice 12
- Right to life 2
- Right to return 2
- Right to seek asylum 5
- Right to self-determination 26
- Rohingya (Arakanese) 6
- Roma 7
- Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 87
- Russians 75
- SGBV 8
- Safe country of origin 6
- Safe third country 1
- Salafi 40
- Sale of children 5
- Sami 1
- Sanctions 118
- Scientologist 1
- Security forces 229
- Security situation 652
- Serb 2
- Serious non-political crime 13
- Sexual and reproductive rights 5
- Shabak 2
- Shan 2
- Sharia law 8
- Shia 33
- Sindhis 2
- Slavs 7
- Small arms 11
- Smuggling of persons 3
- Social group discrimination 6
- Social group persecution 3
- State of emergency 15
- State protection 2
- Sufi 24
- Sunni 47
- Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 1
- Tajik 12
- Tatars 160
- Temporary admission 5
- Terrorism 484
- Threats / Intimidation 15
- Tibetan 6
- Tiv 2
- Torture 40
- Trafficking in persons 8
- Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 7
- Travel documents 2
- Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 2
- Tuareg 4
- Turkmen 4
- Turks 2
- Uighur 28
- Ukrainians 6
- Unaccompanied / Separated children 1
- Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1
- Uzbek 19
- Visas 18
- Voluntary repatriation 8
- War crimes 31
- Withdrawal of nationality 1
- Witnesses 3
- Women's rights 20
- Women-at-risk 4
- Work permits 2
- Yazīdī 4
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