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Alawi 5
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Convention against Torture (CAT) 4
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Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 55
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Immigrants 8
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Lutheran 1
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Migrants 23
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Minorities 30
Minority rights 4
Mormon 2
Muslim 14
National security / Public order 1
Non-refoulement 43
Non-state agents of persecution 1
Opposition 3
Orderly return 2
Oromo 1
Orthodox Christian 10
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Persecution of family members 2
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Persons with disabilities 7
Police 19
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Prison or detention conditions 25
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Public health 1
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Reception 4
Referendum 2
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Refugee camps 1
Refugee identity documents 1
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Refugees 37
Regional instruments 11
Rejected asylum-seekers 23
Rejection at border 1
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Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 12
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Resettlement 4
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Return conditions 1
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Right to a nationality 5
Right to education 2
Right to employment 7
Right to family life 18
Right to health 2
Right to justice 3
Right to liberty and security 1
Right to registration at birth 1
Right to return 2
Right to seek asylum 4
Right to self-determination 2
Rights of non-citizens 4
Roma 7
Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 5
SGBV 36
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Safe third country 4
Sale of children 3
Sami 2
Secondary movement 2
Security forces 14
Security situation 2
Sexual and reproductive rights 2
Shia 8
Sikh 1
Social group discrimination 15
Somalis 1
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State protection 1
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Statelessness Determination Procedures 1
Sunni 8
Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 5
Tamil 1
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Temporary protection 4
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Terrorism 14
Tibetan 1
Torture 5
Trafficking in persons 42
Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 2
Travel documents 2
Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 6
Unaccompanied / Separated children 3
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 12
Visas 4
Voluntary repatriation 3
War crimes 3
Witnesses 1
Women's rights 26
Women-at-risk 17
Work permits 4
Yazīdī 1

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2015 Report on International Religious Freedom - Switzerland 10 August 2016 \| Publisher: United States Department of State \| Document type: Annual Reports
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