Country News
Short articles covering a specific situation in a country of origin. Most often reporting on specific human rights abuses or conflict situations.
- Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) 1
- Amnesty International 5,204
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- Article 19 1,012
- Asylum Aid 102
- Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement 9
- Child Soldiers International 1
- Committee to Protect Journalists 2,635
- Council of Europe: Parliamentary Assembly 1
- Equal Rights Trust 2
- EurasiaNet 2,093
- Forum 18 2,104
- Freedom from Torture 1
- Freedom House 1
- Germany: Federal Office for Migration and Asylum 304
- Hague Conference on Private International Law 1
- HelpAge International 1
- Human Rights Watch 4,992
- Humanitarian Issues Working Group 1
- Hungarian Helsinki Committee 3
- Immigration Advisory Service (IAS) 3
- Institute for Research on Public Policy 4
- Institute for War and Peace Reporting 3,000
- Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) 5,452
- Inter-Agency Standing Committee 5
- Inter-Parliamentary Union 9
- International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) 22
- International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 351
- International Crisis Group (ICG) 69
- International Federation for Human Rights 1,837
- International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) 9
- Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre 4
- Italy: Italian Supreme Court (Corte Suprema di Cassazione) 1
- Jamestown Foundation 3,095
- Japan: District Courts 1
- Minority Rights Group International 89
- Norwegian Refugee Council/Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (NRC/IDMC) 183
- Open Society Foundations (OSF) 1
- Overseas Development Institute (ODI) 2
- Quaker United Nations Office 1
- Radio Free Asia 6,020
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 18,703
- REDRESS 4
- Refugees International 2
- Reporters Without Borders 5,470
- Swiss Refugee Council 1
- UN Ad Hoc Committee on Refugees and Stateless Persons 8
- UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) 36
- UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) 13
- UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) 3
- UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) 1
- UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) 1
- UN General Assembly 3
- UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 1,521
- UN Human Rights Council 3
- UN Mission in Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) 2
- UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) 52
- UN Mission to South Sudan (UNMISS) 1
- UN News Service 8,557
- UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) 10
- UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) 11
- UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) 1
- UN Security Council 4
- UN World Health Organization (WHO) 1
- United Kingdom: Home Office 1
- United Nations 1
- United States Congressional Research Service 11
- World Organisation Against Torture 245
- Afghanistan 4,168
- Albania 96
- Algeria 206
- American Samoa 2
- Andorra 1
- Angola 144
- Anguilla 1
- Antigua and Barbuda 1
- Argentina 84
- Armenia 1,181
- Aruba 2
- Australia 116
- Austria 80
- Azerbaijan 2,094
- Bahamas 1
- Bahrain 593
- Bangladesh 514
- Barbados 3
- Belarus 1,165
- Belgium 39
- Belize 8
- Benin 55
- Bermuda 5
- Bhutan 18
- Bolivia 87
- Bosnia and Herzegovina 427
- Botswana 22
- Brazil 299
- Brunei Darussalam 5
- Bulgaria 102
- Burkina Faso 183
- Burundi 494
- Cambodia 1,190
- Cameroon 334
- Canada 61
- Cape Verde 4
- Cayman Islands 2
- Central African Republic 813
- Chad 356
- Chile 76
- China 5,227
- Colombia 502
- Comoros 30
- Congo, Democratic Republic of the 1,480
- Congo, Republic of the 131
- Costa Rica 13
- Croatia 178
- Cuba 206
- Cyprus 44
- Czech Republic 74
- Côte d'Ivoire 653
- Denmark 23
- Djibouti 79
- Dominica 1
- Dominican Republic 75
- Ecuador 119
- Egypt 1,735
- El Salvador 73
- Equatorial Guinea 55
- Eritrea 231
- Estonia 31
- Ethiopia 476
- Falkland Islands 2
- Fiji 35
- Finland 25
- France 242
- Gabon 48
- Gambia 193
- Georgia 1,591
- Germany 211
- Ghana 83
- Greece 274
- Greenland 1
- Grenada 4
- Guam 1
- Guatemala 151
- Guinea 268
- Guinea-Bissau 132
- Guyana 8
- Haiti 190
- Holy See (Vatican City State) 20
- Honduras 285
- Hong Kong (Special Administrative Region of China) 244
- Hungary 147
- Iceland 2
- India 657
- Indonesia 368
- Iran, Islamic Republic of 3,092
- Iraq 3,580
- Ireland 12
- Israel 1,077
- Italy 161
- Jamaica 27
- Japan 60
- Jordan 336
- Kazakhstan 1,716
- Kenya 866
- Kiribati 1
- Korea, Democratic People's Republic of 539
- Korea, Republic of 114
- Kuwait 130
- Kyrgyzstan 1,773
- Lao People's Democratic Republic 287
- Latvia 64
- Lebanon 657
- Lesotho 19
- Liberia 246
- Libya 1,447
- Liechtenstein 1
- Lithuania 73
- Luxembourg 2
- Macau (Special Administrative Region of China) 7
- Madagascar 76
- Malawi 80
- Malaysia 364
- Maldives 83
- Mali 699
- Malta 19
- Mauritania 166
- Mauritius 8
- Mexico 605
- Moldova, Republic of 396
- Monaco 1
- Mongolia 68
- Montenegro 68
- Montserrat 1
- Morocco 269
- Mozambique 59
- Myanmar 1,945
- Namibia 10
- Nauru 12
- Nepal 420
- Netherlands 97
- New Caledonia 1
- New Zealand 7
- Nicaragua 40
- Niger 275
- Nigeria 961
- Norway 35
- Oman 58
- Pakistan 2,816
- Palestine, State of 1,171
- Panama 35
- Papua New Guinea 71
- Paraguay 51
- Peru 119
- Philippines 479
- Poland 85
- Portugal 6
- Puerto Rico 2
- Qatar 73
- Romania 93
- Russian Federation 7,215
- Rwanda 284
- Saint Kitts and Nevis 2
- Saudi Arabia 575
- Senegal 199
- Serbia 950
- Sierra Leone 172
- Singapore 63
- Slovakia 47
- Slovenia 60
- Solomon Islands 2
- Somalia 1,657
- South Africa 252
- South Sudan 928
- Spain 65
- Sri Lanka 716
- Sudan 1,399
- Suriname 11
- Swaziland 70
- Sweden 80
- Switzerland 46
- Syrian Arab Republic 4,299
- Tajikistan 1,178
- Tanzania, United Republic of 139
- Thailand 717
- The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 273
- Timor-Leste (East Timor) 101
- Togo 91
- Tokelau 1
- Tonga 1
- Trinidad and Tobago 5
- Tunisia 627
- Turkey 1,661
- Turkmenistan 530
- Turks and Caicos Islands 2
- Tuvalu 1
- U.S. Virgin Islands 2
- Uganda 581
- Ukraine 2,638
- United Arab Emirates 172
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 292
- United States of America 1,870
- Uruguay 21
- Uzbekistan 1,303
- Vanuatu 5
- Venezuela 238
- Viet Nam 856
- Western Sahara Territory 60
- Yemen 1,448
- Zambia 82
- Zimbabwe 572
- 1951 Refugee Convention 4
- Abduction 861
- Abkhazians 84
- Abuse of psychiatry 82
- Access to procedures 56
- Access to water 243
- Acholi 1
- Acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations 5
- Acts of persecution 6
- Adivasis 3
- Administrative courts 8
- Admission quotas 1
- Adoption 32
- Adygey 1
- Afars 1
- Africans 19
- Afro-Colombians 7
- Age discrimination 4
- Ahmadis 64
- Ahwazi 12
- Airports 54
- Ajarians 1
- Alawi 14
- Albanians 29
- Albinism/Persons with Albinism 34
- Alevis 1
- Aliens 6
- Amazonian Indians 3
- Anti-terrorism law 161
- Apartheid 1
- Appeal / Right to appeal 82
- Arabs 81
- Arbitrary arrest and detention 2,731
- Armed attacks on camps 117
- Armed forces / Military 2,792
- Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 4,046
- Armenian 90
- Arrival 17
- Ashkaelian 2
- Assamese 1
- Assemblies of God 1
- Assyrians 13
- Asylum policy 36
- Asylum-migration nexus 81
- Asylum-seekers 740
- Atheist / Agnostic 9
- Atheist / Agnostic 2
- Avars 13
- Awá 4
- Azeri 47
- Baha'i 59
- Bail 45
- Balkars 9
- Baluchis 45
- Bantu 3
- Banyamulenge 2
- Banyarwanda 1
- Baptist 326
- Basarwa 2
- Bashkirs 3
- Basques 2
- Batwa 5
- Bedoon 41
- Belarusians 7
- Bengalis 9
- Berber 12
- Berti 1
- Bihari 4
- Blood feuds 3
- Bodos 1
- Border conflict 838
- Border controls 188
- Border crossers 174
- Bosnian 30
- Buddhist 190
- Bulgarians 2
- Burden-sharing and international co-operation 51
- Cabinda 3
- Caferis 1
- Camp management 39
- Capacity building of state institutions 16
- Catholic 138
- Ceasefire 577
- Cessation clauses 3
- Chakma 1
- Chaldean 7
- Cham 1
- Changes of circumstances in home country 1
- Chechen 444
- Cherkess 1
- Child labour 114
- Child prostitution 37
- Child soldiers 267
- Children's rights 769
- Children-at-risk 761
- Chin 18
- Chinese 26
- Chittagong Hill Tribes 8
- Christian 778
- Chukchi 1
- Chuvash 3
- Circassians 110
- Citizenship / Nationality law 12
- Civil and political rights 533
- Civil rights legislation 2
- Civil war 460
- Civilian character of asylum 1
- Climate change (including environmental migrants) 28
- Combatants / Former combatants 243
- Communal conflict / Social conflict 766
- Community development 14
- Complementary forms of protection 6
- Confidentiality 3
- Conflict prevention 125
- Conflict resolution 1,136
- Conflict situation 1,867
- Confucianist 1
- Constitutional law 20
- Contemporary forms of slavery 55
- Convention against Torture (CAT) 8
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 8
- Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CPRD) 1
- Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 5
- Convention refugee 1
- Copts 45
- Corruption 832
- Corsicans 1
- Cossacks 38
- Country of origin information (COI) 16
- Coup d'état 183
- Credibility assessment 1
- Crime prevention 15
- Crimean Tatars 87
- Crimes against humanity 463
- Crimes against peace 6
- Criminal justice 1,835
- Croats 15
- Cumulative grounds of persecution 1
- Customary law 2
- Czechs 1
- Dalit 9
- Darfuri 6
- Dargins 7
- Death in custody 271
- Death penalty 1,238
- Death squads 35
- Demobilization / Disarmament 253
- Democracy 382
- Denial of nationality 7
- Denial of refugee status 10
- Deportation / Forcible return 527
- Dinka 8
- Dioula 1
- Diplomatic assurances 2
- Diplomatic protection 3
- Disappeared persons 791
- Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 459
- Domestic violence 154
- Drug trafficking 207
- Druze 10
- Economic, social and cultural rights 308
- Effective protection 14
- Effective remedy 630
- Egyptians 8
- Election law 47
- Elections 3,219
- Embargo 78
- Embera 1
- Emergency legislation 16
- Emigrants 23
- Endorois 3
- Entry / Exit 17
- Enxet 1
- Equal opportunities 30
- Equality before the law 16
- Eritreans 45
- Ethiopians 41
- Ethnic cleansing 34
- Evacuation 30
- Evangelical 14
- Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 11
- Exclusion clauses 3
- Exhaustion of domestic remedies 3
- Exiles 166
- Expedited procedures 4
- Expulsion 100
- Extradition 211
- Extrajudicial executions 1,161
- Extreme poverty 148
- False documents 12
- Falun Gong 21
- Family law 6
- Family reunification 32
- Female genital mutilation (FGM) 72
- Filipinos 7
- Flight by land, air or sea 78
- Forced labour 180
- Forced marriage 115
- Forced relocation 31
- Forced sterilization / Abortion 69
- Foreign occupation 285
- Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 1,583
- Freedom of assembly and association 2,480
- Freedom of conscience 432
- Freedom of expression 14,041
- Freedom of information 9,238
- Freedom of movement 425
- Freedom of religion 2,880
- Freedom of speech 7,598
- French 1
- Fulani 15
- Fur 1
- Gaboye 1
- Gagauz 6
- Galicians 1
- Gang related violence 47
- Gender discrimination 242
- Gender mainstreaming 31
- Gender-based persecution 107
- Generalized violence 53
- Genocide 256
- Germans 4
- Good governance 1,462
- Good offices 23
- Greeks 1
- Gross, systematic and large-scale 33
- Group / Prima facie determination 1
- HIV and AIDS 227
- Habeas corpus 5
- Haitians 24
- Han 17
- Hare Krishna 67
- Harmful traditional practices 99
- Hazara 24
- Hema 1
- Hijacking 9
- Hindu 37
- Hmong 30
- Honour killings 65
- Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 968
- Hui 1
- Human Rights Council 156
- Human rights activists 3,829
- Human rights and fundamental freedoms 2,005
- Human rights courts 60
- Human rights law 57
- Human rights monitors 699
- Humanitarian assistance 1,865
- Humanitarian protection (including tolerated stay) 7
- Hungarians 4
- Hutus 36
- IDP camps 241
- Illegal entry 10
- Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 106
- Illegitimate children 1
- Immigrants 59
- Immigration Detention 147
- Immigration control after entry 7
- Immigration law 4
- Immunity 86
- Impunity 1,236
- Income-generating projects 2
- Independence of judiciary 260
- Indians 2
- Indigenous persons 250
- Ingush 101
- Integration 79
- Internal armed conflict 3,407
- Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 4
- Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 2,929
- International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CPED) 5
- International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) 1
- International Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers (ICRMW) 4
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 11
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) 3
- International armed conflict 297
- International courts and tribunals 570
- International criminal law 123
- International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 253
- International protection 16
- Involuntary repatriation 29
- Iranians 43
- Jain 1
- Japanese 6
- Jehovah's Witness 429
- Jew 84
- Jurisdiction 8
- Juvenile justice system 81
- Kabards 12
- Kachin 125
- Kalenjin 6
- Kalmyks 1
- Karachay 12
- Karen 34
- Kashmiris 20
- Kazakhs 21
- Khakass 5
- Khmer 5
- Khmer Krom 4
- Kikuyu 3
- Komi 5
- Koreans 8
- Kosovar 159
- Krou 1
- Kuchi 4
- Kumyks 7
- Kuna 1
- Kurd 606
- Labour law 18
- Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 252
- Law of the sea 1
- Laws relating to religion 172
- Legal representation / Legal aid 52
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 726
- Lezgin 7
- Livelihoods 207
- Location of camps 3
- Luo 2
- Lutheran 5
- Maasai 3
- Macedonians 1
- Malays 7
- Malinke / Mandingo 2
- Mandate status 2
- Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims 4
- Mapuche 12
- Maronite 2
- Mass exodus 16
- Massaleit 1
- Maternal and child health care 176
- Mayans 2
- Mbororo 1
- Medical screening 5
- Melanesians 1
- Memoranda of understanding (MOU) 2
- Mende 1
- Mennonite 4
- Mental harm 1
- Mental health 81
- Mentally disadvantaged persons 22
- Mercenaries 21
- Merina 1
- Meskhetians 10
- Messianic Jews 1
- Methodist 9
- Migrant rights 193
- Migrants 984
- Military courts 179
- Military law 87
- Military operations 1,581
- Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 296
- Minorities 845
- Minority rights 157
- Mon 7
- Mongols 61
- Montagnards 32
- Mormon 6
- Moros 1
- Multiple nationality 17
- Muslim 1,765
- National security / Public order 205
- Naturalization 5
- Nepalis 4
- Nogai 6
- Nomads 17
- Non-refoulement 50
- Non-self-governing territories 20
- Non-state agents of persecution 56
- Nuba 6
- Nuer 15
- Ogaden 1
- Older persons 24
- One-child policy / Family planning 33
- Opposition 3,111
- Orang Asli 1
- Orderly return 24
- Oromo 8
- Orthodox Christian 232
- Ossetians (South) 110
- Palestinian 647
- Pamiris 1
- Panjshiris 1
- Papuans 23
- Pashtun 27
- Passports 59
- Pastoralists 2
- Peace agreements 592
- Peace process 1,124
- Peacekeeping 1,055
- Pentecostal 39
- Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 223
- Persecution based on nationality 9
- Persecution based on political opinion 1,304
- Persecution of family members 109
- Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 351
- Persons not in need of international protection 14
- Persons of concern to UNHCR 26
- Persons with disabilities 133
- Physical harm 1
- Piracy 31
- Poles 16
- Police 1,589
- Political asylum 40
- Political groups 692
- Political parties 1,578
- Political situation 5,933
- Polygamy 17
- Population transfers 5
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 9
- Pre-trial detention 256
- Presbyterian 27
- Prevention of discrimination 26
- Prison or detention conditions 1,033
- Prisoners of war 93
- Proof of nationality 1
- Property restitution 32
- Prosecution vs persecution 154
- Prostitution / Commercial sex work 83
- Protection of camps 28
- Protection of civilian persons in time of war 1,434
- Protestant 357
- Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 1,996
- Public health 510
- Punjabis 2
- Racial / Ethnic persecution 178
- Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 49
- Ratification 2
- Re-entry 2
- Reception 74
- Reconciliation 412
- Referendum 229
- Refoulement 35
- Refugee / Asylum law 32
- Refugee camps 518
- Refugee identity documents 17
- Refugee seamen 164
- Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 21
- Refugees 2,986
- Refugees sur place 4
- Regional instruments 1
- Registration 58
- Reintegration 81
- Rejected asylum-seekers 27
- Rejection at border 39
- Religious discrimination 1,430
- Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 440
- Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 77
- Resettlement 183
- Residence permits / Residency 33
- Return conditions 196
- Returnees 374
- Right to a nationality 30
- Right to development 13
- Right to education 492
- Right to employment 136
- Right to family life 29
- Right to food 365
- Right to health 324
- Right to justice 343
- Right to leave 7
- Right to liberty and security 34
- Right to life 96
- Right to registration at birth 19
- Right to return 24
- Right to seek asylum 92
- Right to self-determination 153
- Rights of non-citizens 17
- Rohingya (Arakanese) 307
- Roma 135
- Romanians 1
- Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 1,203
- Russians 132
- Rwandans 7
- SGBV 874
- Sabean Mandean 10
- Safe country of origin 16
- Safe third country 10
- Saharawis 27
- Salafi 117
- Sale of children 28
- Sami 2
- San Bushmen 1
- Sanctions 333
- Scientologist 2
- Secondary movement 29
- Security forces 1,891
- Security situation 6,876
- Serb 83
- Serious non-political crime 43
- Seventh Day Adventist 47
- Sexual and reproductive rights 135
- Shabak 23
- Shamanism 1
- Shan 33
- Sharia law 70
- Shia 436
- Signatories and Parties 1
- Sikh 15
- Sindhis 3
- Single heads of household 2
- Sinhalese 6
- Slavs 11
- Small arms 96
- Smuggling of persons 105
- Social group discrimination 96
- Social group persecution 29
- Somalis 232
- Spontaneous return 6
- Standard of proof 3
- State of emergency 126
- State protection 34
- Statelessness 95
- Sufi 66
- Sunni 362
- Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 32
- Tajik 43
- Talysh 4
- Tamil 130
- Taoist 1
- Tatars 202
- Temporary admission 6
- Temporary protection 7
- Terrorism 3,615
- Threats / Intimidation 153
- Tibetan 923
- Tiv 2
- Torres Strait Islanders 1
- Torture 509
- Trafficking in persons 302
- Transgression of social / cultural norms 4
- Transit 23
- Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 227
- Travel documents 8
- Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 53
- Tuareg 95
- Turkmen 54
- Turks 10
- Tutsis 28
- Uighur 724
- Ukrainians 14
- Unaccompanied / Separated children 77
- Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 65
- Unlawful departure 2
- Urban refugees 28
- Urueu-Wau-Wau 1
- Uzbek 185
- Vietnamese 7
- Visas 103
- Voluntary repatriation 156
- War crimes 804
- Well-founded fear of persecution 7
- Widowed persons 5
- Witchcraft 11
- Withdrawal of nationality 7
- Witnesses 67
- Women's rights 1,084
- Women-at-risk 373
- Work permits 16
- Yazīdī 93
- Zoroastrian 6
- Zulus 1
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