Refworld Case Law Collection Survey
Annual Reports
Annual reports are published annually by various governments, NGOs and others. They cover country and human rights situations, very often providing a broad overview of many areas rather than concentrating on specific issues.
- Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) 9
- Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) 1
- Amnesty International 3,634
- Article 19 3
- Asylum Access 1
- Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement 2
- Child Soldiers International 548
- Committee to Protect Journalists 3,933
- Council of Europe: Commissioner for Human Rights 3
- Council of Europe: Committee for the Prevention of Torture 4
- Council of Europe: Committee of Ministers 8
- Council of Europe: European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) 6
- Council of Europe: Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings 1
- Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) 1
- European Council on Refugees and Exiles 3
- European Union: European Agency for Fundamental Rights 8
- European Union: European Asylum Support Office (EASO) 6
- European Union: European Commission 6
- Freedom House 6,989
- Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack 30
- Human Rights Watch 1,912
- Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) 18
- Inter-Parliamentary Union 1
- International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 463
- International Detention Coalition 1
- International Federation for Human Rights 621
- International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) 371
- International Labour Organization (ILO) 4
- International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) 51
- International Trade Union Confederation 1,062
- Migration Policy Group (MPG) 83
- Minority Rights Group International 768
- Norwegian Refugee Council/Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (NRC/IDMC) 251
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) 4
- Overseas Development Institute (ODI) 3
- Reporters Without Borders 1,015
- Save the Children 6
- Switzerland: State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) 5
- UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) 1
- UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) 6
- UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) 10
- UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) 7
- UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) 2
- UN Development Programme (UNDP) 2
- UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) 2
- UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) 33
- UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UNWOMEN) 2
- UN General Assembly 20
- UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 532
- UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) 2
- UN Human Rights Council 50
- UN Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) 1
- UN Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) 4
- UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) 3
- UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) 13
- UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) 3
- UN Population Fund (UNFPA) 2
- UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) 1
- UN Secretary-General (UNSG) 3
- UN Security Council 4
- UN World Food Programme 2
- UN World Health Organization (WHO) 2
- United Kingdom: Foreign and Commonwealth Office 237
- United Nations 10
- United States Commission on International Religious Freedom 375
- United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants 1,302
- United States Department of Labor 1,865
- United States Department of State 12,309
- World Organisation Against Torture 3
- Afghanistan 362
- Albania 207
- Algeria 316
- American Samoa 3
- Andorra 69
- Angola 235
- Anguilla 14
- Antigua and Barbuda 97
- Argentina 240
- Armenia 261
- Aruba 11
- Australia 187
- Austria 158
- Azerbaijan 314
- Bahamas 123
- Bahrain 246
- Bangladesh 302
- Barbados 108
- Belarus 275
- Belgium 174
- Belize 136
- Benin 149
- Bermuda 7
- Bhutan 127
- Bolivia 211
- Bosnia and Herzegovina 273
- Botswana 141
- Brazil 310
- British Virgin Islands 15
- Brunei Darussalam 100
- Bulgaria 217
- Burkina Faso 174
- Burundi 263
- Cambodia 246
- Cameroon 200
- Canada 188
- Cape Verde 98
- Cayman Islands 3
- Central African Republic 202
- Chad 238
- Chile 213
- China 573
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands 6
- Colombia 409
- Comoros 116
- Congo, Democratic Republic of the 310
- Congo, Republic of the 177
- Cook Islands 19
- Costa Rica 150
- Croatia 233
- Cuba 280
- Cyprus 165
- Czech Republic 182
- Côte d'Ivoire 238
- Denmark 149
- Djibouti 160
- Dominica 89
- Dominican Republic 185
- Ecuador 229
- Egypt 359
- El Salvador 190
- Equatorial Guinea 161
- Eritrea 278
- Estonia 161
- Ethiopia 321
- Falkland Islands 14
- Fiji 154
- Finland 136
- France 227
- French Guiana 5
- French Polynesia 5
- Gabon 144
- Gambia 187
- Georgia 324
- Germany 213
- Ghana 178
- Gibraltar 10
- Greece 207
- Grenada 94
- Guadeloupe 4
- Guam 3
- Guatemala 258
- Guinea 203
- Guinea-Bissau 153
- Guyana 138
- Haiti 234
- Holy See (Vatican City State) 4
- Honduras 238
- Hong Kong (Special Administrative Region of China) 145
- Hungary 206
- Iceland 96
- India 390
- Indonesia 308
- Iran, Islamic Republic of 358
- Iraq 580
- Ireland 148
- Israel 366
- Italy 208
- Jamaica 156
- Japan 186
- Jordan 230
- Kazakhstan 277
- Kenya 281
- Kiribati 94
- Korea, Democratic People's Republic of 230
- Korea, Republic of 188
- Kuwait 197
- Kyrgyzstan 280
- Lao People's Democratic Republic 188
- Latvia 172
- Lebanon 295
- Lesotho 127
- Liberia 221
- Libya 251
- Liechtenstein 70
- Lithuania 165
- Luxembourg 91
- Macau (Special Administrative Region of China) 81
- Madagascar 134
- Malawi 167
- Malaysia 251
- Maldives 147
- Mali 205
- Malta 116
- Marshall Islands 74
- Martinique 4
- Mauritania 211
- Mauritius 113
- Mexico 327
- Micronesia, Federated States of 80
- Moldova, Republic of 203
- Monaco 68
- Mongolia 140
- Montenegro 205
- Montserrat 14
- Morocco 255
- Mozambique 173
- Myanmar 309
- Namibia 156
- Nauru 78
- Nepal 264
- Netherlands 174
- Netherlands Antilles 11
- New Caledonia 4
- New Zealand 135
- Nicaragua 184
- Niger 188
- Nigeria 308
- Niue 17
- Norfolk Island 8
- Northern Mariana Islands 4
- Norway 129
- Oman 148
- Pakistan 444
- Palau 76
- Palestine, State of 374
- Panama 174
- Papua New Guinea 160
- Paraguay 194
- Peru 261
- Philippines 399
- Pitcairn 6
- Poland 202
- Portugal 142
- Puerto Rico 36
- Qatar 155
- Romania 204
- Russian Federation 461
- Rwanda 289
- Saint Helena 10
- Saint Kitts and Nevis 89
- Saint Lucia 97
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 97
- Samoa 92
- San Marino 67
- Sao Tome and Principe 81
- Saudi Arabia 292
- Senegal 197
- Serbia 353
- Seychelles 97
- Sierra Leone 217
- Singapore 178
- Slovakia 175
- Slovenia 149
- Solomon Islands 129
- Somalia 368
- South Africa 251
- South Sudan 75
- Spain 193
- Sri Lanka 316
- Sudan 323
- Suriname 126
- Swaziland 152
- Sweden 164
- Switzerland 150
- Syrian Arab Republic 441
- Tajikistan 266
- Tanzania, United Republic of 216
- Thailand 290
- The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 204
- Timor-Leste (East Timor) 156
- Togo 176
- Tokelau 13
- Tonga 105
- Trinidad and Tobago 148
- Tunisia 247
- Turkey 370
- Turkmenistan 255
- Turks and Caicos Islands 18
- Tuvalu 81
- U.S. Virgin Islands 5
- Uganda 275
- Ukraine 276
- United Arab Emirates 184
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 253
- United States of America 196
- Uruguay 166
- Uzbekistan 303
- Vanuatu 86
- Venezuela 267
- Viet Nam 287
- Wallis and Futuna 12
- Western Sahara Territory 127
- Yemen 278
- Zambia 187
- Zimbabwe 253
- 1951 Refugee Convention 4
- Abduction 621
- Abkhazians 18
- Aborigine 20
- Abuse of psychiatry 17
- Access to procedures 307
- Access to water 61
- Acehnese 14
- Acholi 5
- Adivasis 11
- Admission quotas 1
- Adoption 8
- Afars 4
- Africans 36
- Afro-Colombians 4
- Age discrimination 6
- Agents of persecution 1
- Ahmadis 156
- Ahwazi 8
- Ainu 6
- Airports 53
- Ajarians 1
- Aka 1
- Akhdam 1
- Alawi 27
- Albanians 14
- Albinism/Persons with Albinism 83
- Alevis 25
- Aliens 4
- Amazonian Indians 8
- Amhara 1
- Andaman Islanders 1
- Anglican 589
- Animist 420
- Anti-terrorism law 28
- Anuak 2
- Appeal / Right to appeal 10
- Arabs 42
- Arará 1
- Arbitrary arrest and detention 4,506
- Armed attacks on camps 23
- Armed forces / Military 810
- Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 1,593
- Armenian 25
- Ashaninka 1
- Ashkaelian 6
- Assamese 1
- Assemblies of God 214
- Assyrians 17
- Asylum policy 240
- Asylum-migration nexus 13
- Asylum-seekers 1,148
- Awá 2
- Aymara 3
- Azeri 19
- Baganda 1
- Baha'i 1,060
- Bail 10
- Bajuni 1
- Bakongo 1
- Baluchis 27
- Bantu 7
- Banyamulenge 1
- Baptist 718
- Barabaig 2
- Basarwa 7
- Basongora 1
- Basques 12
- Batak 1
- Batwa 32
- Bedoon 28
- Bellah 1
- Benadiri 2
- Bengalis 6
- Berber 15
- Bihari 4
- Blood feuds 2
- Bodos 1
- Border conflict 65
- Border controls 102
- Border crossers 10
- Bosnian 4
- Buddhist 806
- Burakumin 5
- Burden of proof 1
- Burden-sharing and international co-operation 5
- Cabinda 11
- Caferis 1
- Calvinist 30
- Capacity building of state institutions 3
- Caribs 4
- Carrier sanctions 2
- Catholic 1,847
- Ceasefire 42
- Cessation clauses 1
- Chaldean 47
- Cham 7
- Chechen 32
- Child labour 3,513
- Child prostitution 2,018
- Child soldiers 1,054
- Children's rights 5,874
- Children-at-risk 3,159
- Chin 7
- Chinese 14
- Chittagong Hill Tribes 14
- Christian 1,991
- Christian Scientist 17
- Circassians 3
- Citizenship / Nationality law 1
- Civil and political rights 357
- Civil war 28
- Civilian character of asylum 10
- Climate change (including environmental migrants) 26
- Combatants / Former combatants 53
- Communal conflict / Social conflict 356
- Community development 3
- Complementary forms of protection 1
- Conflict resolution 42
- Conflict situation 134
- Confucianist 89
- Congregationalist 69
- Contemporary forms of slavery 118
- Convention against Torture (CAT) 9
- Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CPRD) 1
- Copts 122
- Corruption 2,202
- Country of origin information (COI) 2
- Coup d'état 87
- Creoles 2
- Crime prevention 4
- Crimean Tatars 13
- Crimes against humanity 70
- Criminal justice 1,720
- Croats 3
- Dalit 36
- Darfuri 3
- Dayaks 2
- Death in custody 187
- Death penalty 913
- Death squads 22
- Demobilization / Disarmament 134
- Democracy 733
- Denial of nationality 11
- Denial of refugee status 6
- Deportation / Forcible return 282
- Dinka 11
- Dioula 1
- Disappeared persons 3,450
- Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 4,112
- Domestic violence 706
- Drug trafficking 278
- Druze 51
- EU Qualification Directive 15
- East Caprivians 8
- Economic, social and cultural rights 2,599
- Effective protection 210
- Effective remedy 207
- Egyptians 9
- Election law 6
- Elections 2,940
- Embargo 24
- Embera 1
- Emigrants 60
- Endorois 2
- Enxet 1
- Episcopalian 117
- Equal opportunities 2
- Equality before the law 303
- Eritreans 3
- Ethiopians 4
- Ethnic cleansing 10
- Evacuation 7
- Evangelical 761
- Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 7
- Exhaustion of domestic remedies 1
- Exiles 63
- Expedited procedures 1
- Expulsion 67
- Extended definition 1
- Extradition 36
- Extrajudicial executions 3,726
- Extreme poverty 124
- False documents 12
- Falun Gong 63
- Family reunification 32
- Female genital mutilation (FGM) 256
- Filipinos 1
- Finno-Ugric 1
- Flight by land, air or sea 10
- Forced labour 5,438
- Forced marriage 353
- Forced relocation 87
- Forced sterilization / Abortion 16
- Foreign occupation 58
- Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 4,181
- Freedom of assembly and association 6,784
- Freedom of conscience 292
- Freedom of expression 14,300
- Freedom of information 5,125
- Freedom of movement 3,550
- Freedom of religion 8,382
- Freedom of speech 3,699
- Fulani 4
- Gaboye 3
- Gang related violence 48
- Garinagu 6
- Gender discrimination 3,889
- Gender mainstreaming 13
- Gender-based persecution 207
- Generalized violence 124
- Genocide 44
- Germans 2
- Good governance 411
- Good offices 1
- Greeks 2
- Gross, systematic and large-scale 16
- Group / Prima facie determination 46
- Guaraní / Mbyá 4
- Guaymi 1
- Gujaratis 3
- HIV and AIDS 487
- Habeas corpus 3
- Hadza 1
- Haitians 23
- Han 3
- Haratin 4
- Hare Krishna 198
- Harmful traditional practices 50
- Hazara 13
- Himba 3
- Hindu 766
- Hispanic 1
- Hmong 90
- Honour killings 58
- Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 835
- Huang Jiao 5
- Hui 2
- Human Rights Council 40
- Human rights activists 1,650
- Human rights and fundamental freedoms 5,861
- Human rights courts 143
- Human rights law 10
- Human rights monitors 970
- Humanitarian assistance 200
- Hungarians 4
- Hutus 15
- IDP camps 32
- Ibo 1
- Igorots 1
- Ijaw 2
- Illegal entry 40
- Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 160
- Illegitimate children 2
- Immigrants 96
- Immigration Detention 480
- Immigration control after entry 5
- Immigration law 6
- Immunity 8
- Impunity 1,660
- Income-generating projects 4
- Independence of judiciary 1,249
- Indians 2
- Indigenous persons 936
- Ingush 3
- Integration 57
- Internal armed conflict 488
- Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 1
- Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 1,175
- International armed conflict 28
- International courts and tribunals 242
- International criminal law 4
- International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 284
- International protection 591
- Inuit 2
- Involuntary repatriation 20
- Iranians 1
- Ismaili 51
- Jain 30
- Japanese 1
- Jehovah's Witness 1,030
- Jew 1,209
- Jurisdiction 1
- Juvenile justice system 58
- Kachin 12
- Kalenjin 1
- Karachay 1
- Karakalpaks 3
- Karamojong 7
- Karen 25
- Kasaians 1
- Kashmiris 25
- Kayapó 1
- Kazakhs 12
- Khmer 8
- Khmer Krom 4
- Khmer Leou 1
- Kikuyu 6
- Kisii 1
- Koreans 12
- Kosovar 76
- Kuchi 4
- Kunama 2
- Kurd 148
- Labour law 3
- Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 56
- Lao Theung 1
- Laws relating to religion 7
- Laz 2
- Legal representation / Legal aid 45
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 1,270
- Lezgin 1
- Lhotshampas 3
- Livelihoods 18
- Location of camps 8
- Luba 1
- Luo 3
- Lutheran 466
- Maasai 7
- Macedonians 2
- Madhesis 3
- Madhiban 7
- Malays 3
- Malinke / Mandingo 2
- Mandate status 1
- Maori 15
- Mapuche 12
- Maronite 87
- Mass exodus 6
- Maternal and child health care 88
- Mayans 13
- Mbororo 6
- Melanesians 2
- Mennonite 114
- Mental health 39
- Mentally disadvantaged persons 42
- Mercenaries 4
- Meskhetians 7
- Messianic Jews 35
- Methodist 514
- Midgan 2
- Migrant rights 314
- Migrants 948
- Military courts 69
- Military law 7
- Military operations 149
- Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 904
- Minorities 2,569
- Minority rights 467
- Mohajirs 1
- Mon 3
- Mongols 5
- Montagnards 22
- Moravian 46
- Mormon 782
- Moros 4
- Multiple nationality 9
- Muslim 2,138
- Nagas 4
- National security / Public order 117
- Naturalization 21
- Ndebele 7
- Nepalis 2
- New Life Church 3
- Nomads 35
- Non-refoulement 8
- Non-self-governing territories 13
- Non-state agents of persecution 13
- Nuba 13
- Nuer 7
- Ogaden 1
- Older persons 9
- One-child policy / Family planning 6
- Opposition 742
- Orang Asli 5
- Oromo 11
- Orthodox Christian 813
- Ossetians (South) 22
- Palestinian 108
- Pamiris 1
- Papuans 17
- Pashtun 7
- Passports 27
- Pastoralists 33
- Peace agreements 73
- Peace process 106
- Peacekeeping 90
- Pentecostal 636
- Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 1
- Persecution based on nationality 177
- Persecution based on political opinion 1,077
- Persecution of family members 42
- Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 854
- Persons of concern to UNHCR 126
- Persons with disabilities 1,503
- Piracy 14
- Poles 3
- Police 2,297
- Political asylum 1
- Political groups 44
- Political parties 638
- Political situation 270
- Polygamy 14
- Polynesians 2
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 1
- Pre-entry procedures 1
- Pre-trial detention 832
- Presbyterian 326
- Prevention of discrimination 115
- Prison or detention conditions 2,601
- Prisoners of war 6
- Property restitution 219
- Prostitution / Commercial sex work 1,469
- Protection of camps 3
- Protection of civilian persons in time of war 239
- Protestant 1,361
- Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 345
- Public health 369
- Punjabis 1
- Quan Yin 2
- Quechua 2
- Racial / Ethnic persecution 212
- Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 48
- Rapanui 1
- Rastafarian 156
- Re-entry 2
- Readmission 1
- Reception 8
- Reconciliation 105
- Referendum 96
- Refoulement 94
- Refugee / Asylum law 9
- Refugee camps 154
- Refugee identity documents 116
- Refugee seamen 2
- Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 101
- Refugee travel documents / CTDs 61
- Refugees 2,336
- Registration 93
- Reintegration 58
- Rejected asylum-seekers 78
- Rejection at border 22
- Religious discrimination 4,579
- Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 2,298
- Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 44
- Reservation 12
- Resettlement 75
- Residence permits / Residency 83
- Return conditions 13
- Returnees 98
- Right to a nationality 8
- Right to development 12
- Right to education 876
- Right to employment 1,052
- Right to family life 15
- Right to food 84
- Right to health 114
- Right to justice 161
- Right to liberty and security 7
- Right to life 61
- Right to registration at birth 192
- Right to return 12
- Right to seek asylum 5
- Right to self-determination 633
- Rights of non-citizens 62
- Rohingya (Arakanese) 68
- Roma 464
- Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 1,648
- Russians 16
- Ryukyuans 1
- SGBV 4,458
- Sabean Mandean 21
- Safe country of origin 38
- Safe third country 8
- Saharawis 42
- Salafi 57
- Sale of children 68
- Samaritans 3
- Sami 88
- San Bushmen 29
- Sanctions 40
- Sandzak 1
- Scientologist 142
- Secondary movement 1
- Security forces 1,801
- Security situation 448
- Serb 45
- Serious non-political crime 71
- Seventh Day Adventist 758
- Sexual and reproductive rights 399
- Shabak 7
- Shamanism 24
- Shan 11
- Sharia law 25
- Shia 563
- Shinto 40
- Sikh 254
- Sindhis 1
- Single heads of household 2
- Sinhalese 6
- Slavs 1
- Slovaks 1
- Small arms 16
- Smuggling of persons 243
- Social group discrimination 2,598
- Social group persecution 5
- Somalis 16
- Spontaneous return 3
- State of emergency 115
- State protection 4
- Statelessness 289
- Sufi 170
- Sunni 801
- Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 549
- Tajik 14
- Talysh 3
- Tamil 36
- Taoist 126
- Tatars 16
- Temporary admission 4
- Temporary protection 88
- Territorial asylum 1
- Terrorism 2,528
- Threats / Intimidation 624
- Tibetan 118
- Tigreans 2
- Toba 1
- Torres Strait Islanders 4
- Torture 1,497
- Trafficking in persons 7,699
- Transit 2
- Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 307
- Travel documents 46
- Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 10
- Tuareg 15
- Turkmen 11
- Turks 16
- Tutsis 16
- Tuvinians 1
- UNHCR mandate 5
- Uighur 82
- Ukrainians 1
- Unaccompanied / Separated children 105
- Unification Church 110
- Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 7
- Unlawful departure 1
- Urban refugees 53
- Uzbek 41
- Vietnamese 5
- Visas 66
- Voluntary repatriation 61
- War crimes 196
- Wayeyi 3
- Wayuú 1
- Well-founded fear of persecution 1
- Widowed persons 1
- Witchcraft 31
- Withdrawal of nationality 23
- Witnesses 108
- Women's rights 4,565
- Women-at-risk 2,529
- Work permits 95
- Xhosa 1
- Yanomami 1
- Yazīdī 47
- Zanzibaris 12
- Zomi (Chin) 3
- Zoroastrian 121
- Zulus 4
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