Refworld Case Law Collection Survey
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 5,248
- Arabic/Islamic - Miscellaneous 1
- Article 19 1,019
- Asylum Aid 102
- Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement 9
- Child Soldiers International 1
- Committee to Protect Journalists 2,677
- Council of Europe: Parliamentary Assembly 1
- Equal Rights Trust 2
- EurasiaNet 2,102
- Forum 18 2,112
- Freedom from Torture 1
- Freedom House 1
- Germany: Federal Office for Migration and Asylum 308
- Hague Conference on Private International Law 1
- HelpAge International 1
- Human Rights Watch 5,045
- 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 3,011
- Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) 5,477
- Inter-Agency Standing Committee 5
- Inter-Parliamentary Union 9
- International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) 22
- International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 368
- International Crisis Group (ICG) 71
- International Federation for Human Rights 1,849
- 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 3,154
- 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 6,179
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 19,048
- REDRESS 4
- Refugees International 2
- Reporters Without Borders 5,505
- 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) 1,528
- 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 8,670
- 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 4,206
- Albania 98
- Algeria 211
- American Samoa 2
- Andorra 1
- Angola 145
- Anguilla 1
- Antigua and Barbuda 1
- Argentina 85
- Armenia 1,200
- Aruba 2
- Australia 123
- Austria 81
- Azerbaijan 2,110
- Bahamas 1
- Bahrain 604
- Bangladesh 525
- Barbados 3
- Belarus 1,175
- Belgium 39
- Belize 9
- Benin 56
- Bermuda 5
- Bhutan 18
- Bolivia 88
- Bosnia and Herzegovina 430
- Botswana 22
- Brazil 310
- Brunei Darussalam 5
- Bulgaria 105
- Burkina Faso 186
- Burundi 500
- Cambodia 1,215
- Cameroon 344
- Canada 64
- Cape Verde 4
- Cayman Islands 2
- Central African Republic 815
- Chad 363
- Chile 77
- China 5,331
- Colombia 505
- Comoros 30
- Congo, Democratic Republic of the 1,486
- Congo, Republic of the 132
- Costa Rica 14
- Croatia 179
- Cuba 208
- Cyprus 45
- Czech Republic 75
- Côte d'Ivoire 654
- Denmark 23
- Djibouti 81
- Dominica 1
- Dominican Republic 76
- Ecuador 119
- Egypt 1,739
- El Salvador 74
- Equatorial Guinea 55
- Eritrea 233
- Estonia 32
- Ethiopia 483
- Falkland Islands 2
- Fiji 35
- Finland 25
- France 248
- Gabon 48
- Gambia 198
- Georgia 1,605
- Germany 212
- Ghana 84
- Greece 278
- Greenland 1
- Grenada 4
- Guam 1
- Guatemala 153
- Guinea 270
- Guinea-Bissau 133
- Guyana 8
- Haiti 191
- Holy See (Vatican City State) 20
- Honduras 286
- Hong Kong (Special Administrative Region of China) 258
- Hungary 149
- Iceland 2
- India 677
- Indonesia 377
- Iran, Islamic Republic of 3,140
- Iraq 3,628
- Ireland 12
- Israel 1,084
- Italy 161
- Jamaica 27
- Japan 61
- Jordan 342
- Kazakhstan 1,737
- Kenya 870
- Kiribati 1
- Korea, Democratic People's Republic of 553
- Korea, Republic of 114
- Kuwait 134
- Kyrgyzstan 1,788
- Lao People's Democratic Republic 298
- Latvia 66
- Lebanon 664
- Lesotho 20
- Liberia 247
- Libya 1,453
- Liechtenstein 1
- Lithuania 76
- Luxembourg 2
- Macau (Special Administrative Region of China) 7
- Madagascar 77
- Malawi 81
- Malaysia 367
- Maldives 84
- Mali 708
- Malta 19
- Mauritania 168
- Mauritius 8
- Mexico 611
- Moldova, Republic of 399
- Monaco 1
- Mongolia 69
- Montenegro 69
- Montserrat 1
- Morocco 271
- Mozambique 59
- Myanmar 1,976
- Namibia 10
- Nauru 15
- Nepal 422
- Netherlands 97
- New Caledonia 1
- New Zealand 7
- Nicaragua 40
- Niger 282
- Nigeria 979
- Norway 35
- Oman 61
- Pakistan 2,859
- Palestine, State of 1,176
- Panama 36
- Papua New Guinea 71
- Paraguay 52
- Peru 119
- Philippines 485
- Poland 88
- Portugal 6
- Puerto Rico 2
- Qatar 75
- Romania 97
- Russian Federation 7,334
- Rwanda 286
- Saint Kitts and Nevis 2
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1
- Saudi Arabia 587
- Senegal 204
- Serbia 968
- Sierra Leone 175
- Singapore 64
- Slovakia 47
- Slovenia 60
- Solomon Islands 2
- Somalia 1,669
- South Africa 253
- South Sudan 964
- Spain 65
- Sri Lanka 717
- Sudan 1,405
- Suriname 11
- Swaziland 70
- Sweden 81
- Switzerland 46
- Syrian Arab Republic 4,380
- Tajikistan 1,185
- Tanzania, United Republic of 139
- Thailand 730
- The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 276
- Timor-Leste (East Timor) 101
- Togo 91
- Tokelau 1
- Tonga 1
- Trinidad and Tobago 5
- Tunisia 627
- Turkey 1,734
- Turkmenistan 533
- Turks and Caicos Islands 2
- Tuvalu 1
- U.S. Virgin Islands 2
- Uganda 597
- Ukraine 2,671
- United Arab Emirates 173
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 293
- United States of America 1,913
- Uruguay 21
- Uzbekistan 1,308
- Vanuatu 5
- Venezuela 240
- Viet Nam 865
- Western Sahara Territory 60
- Yemen 1,461
- Zambia 83
- Zimbabwe 576
- 1951 Refugee Convention 4
- Abduction 873
- Abkhazians 85
- Abuse of psychiatry 82
- Access to procedures 56
- Access to water 248
- 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 2
- Adoption 32
- Adygey 1
- Afars 1
- Africans 19
- Afro-Colombians 7
- Age discrimination 4
- Ahmadis 64
- Ahwazi 12
- Airports 59
- Ajarians 1
- Alawi 14
- Albanians 29
- Albinism/Persons with Albinism 35
- Alevis 1
- Aliens 6
- Amazonian Indians 3
- Anti-terrorism law 165
- Apartheid 1
- Appeal / Right to appeal 83
- Arabs 81
- Arbitrary arrest and detention 2,759
- Armed attacks on camps 117
- Armed forces / Military 2,849
- Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 4,133
- Armenian 90
- Arrival 17
- Ashkaelian 2
- Assamese 1
- Assemblies of God 1
- Assyrians 13
- Asylum policy 36
- Asylum-migration nexus 81
- Asylum-seekers 743
- 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 327
- 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 847
- Border controls 193
- Border crossers 183
- Bosnian 30
- Buddhist 196
- Bulgarians 3
- Burden-sharing and international co-operation 51
- Cabinda 3
- Caferis 1
- Camp management 39
- Capacity building of state institutions 16
- Catholic 138
- Ceasefire 588
- Cessation clauses 3
- Chakma 1
- Chaldean 7
- Cham 1
- Changes of circumstances in home country 1
- Chechen 449
- Cherkess 1
- Child labour 116
- Child prostitution 37
- Child soldiers 270
- Children's rights 780
- Children-at-risk 784
- Chin 18
- Chinese 26
- Chittagong Hill Tribes 8
- Christian 781
- Chukchi 1
- Chuvash 3
- Circassians 111
- Citizenship / Nationality law 12
- Civil and political rights 545
- Civil rights legislation 2
- Civil war 488
- Civilian character of asylum 1
- Climate change (including environmental migrants) 28
- Combatants / Former combatants 244
- Communal conflict / Social conflict 770
- Community development 14
- Complementary forms of protection 6
- Confidentiality 3
- Conflict prevention 126
- Conflict resolution 1,142
- Conflict situation 1,871
- 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 843
- Corsicans 1
- Cossacks 39
- Country of origin information (COI) 16
- Coup d'état 228
- Credibility assessment 1
- Crime prevention 16
- Crimean Tatars 87
- Crimes against humanity 466
- 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 272
- Death penalty 1,256
- Death squads 35
- Demobilization / Disarmament 255
- Democracy 386
- Denial of nationality 7
- Denial of refugee status 10
- Deportation / Forcible return 530
- Dinka 9
- Dioula 1
- Diplomatic assurances 2
- Diplomatic protection 3
- Disappeared persons 797
- Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 459
- Domestic violence 155
- Drug trafficking 213
- Druze 10
- Economic, social and cultural rights 308
- Effective protection 14
- Effective remedy 636
- Egyptians 8
- Election law 47
- Elections 3,234
- 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 34
- Evangelical 14
- Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 11
- Exclusion clauses 3
- Exhaustion of domestic remedies 3
- Exiles 168
- Expedited procedures 4
- Expulsion 105
- Extradition 216
- Extrajudicial executions 1,172
- Extreme poverty 148
- False documents 12
- Falun Gong 21
- Family law 6
- Family reunification 32
- Female genital mutilation (FGM) 73
- Filipinos 7
- Flight by land, air or sea 79
- Forced labour 182
- Forced marriage 115
- Forced relocation 31
- Forced sterilization / Abortion 70
- Foreign occupation 287
- Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 1,607
- Freedom of assembly and association 2,504
- Freedom of conscience 432
- Freedom of expression 14,199
- Freedom of information 9,318
- Freedom of movement 437
- Freedom of religion 2,893
- Freedom of speech 7,639
- French 1
- Fulani 16
- Fur 1
- Gaboye 1
- Gagauz 7
- Galicians 1
- Gang related violence 48
- Gender discrimination 243
- Gender mainstreaming 32
- Gender-based persecution 107
- Generalized violence 53
- Genocide 259
- Germans 4
- Good governance 1,463
- Good offices 24
- Greeks 1
- Gross, systematic and large-scale 33
- Group / Prima facie determination 1
- HIV and AIDS 228
- 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 73
- Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 979
- Hui 1
- Human Rights Council 158
- Human rights activists 3,873
- Human rights and fundamental freedoms 2,013
- Human rights courts 61
- Human rights law 61
- Human rights monitors 715
- Humanitarian assistance 1,907
- Humanitarian protection (including tolerated stay) 7
- Hungarians 5
- Hutus 36
- IDP camps 241
- Illegal entry 10
- Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 106
- Illegitimate children 1
- Immigrants 59
- Immigration Detention 152
- Immigration control after entry 7
- Immigration law 4
- Immunity 89
- Impunity 1,253
- Income-generating projects 2
- Independence of judiciary 266
- Indians 2
- Indigenous persons 252
- Ingush 101
- Integration 81
- Internal armed conflict 3,441
- Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 4
- Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 2,939
- 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 298
- International courts and tribunals 570
- International criminal law 123
- International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 259
- International protection 16
- Involuntary repatriation 29
- Iranians 43
- Jain 1
- Japanese 6
- Jehovah's Witness 430
- Jew 84
- Jurisdiction 8
- Juvenile justice system 83
- Kabards 12
- Kachin 125
- Kalenjin 6
- Kalmyks 1
- Karachay 12
- Karen 34
- Kashmiris 29
- Kazakhs 21
- Khakass 5
- Khmer 5
- Khmer Krom 4
- Kikuyu 3
- Komi 5
- Koreans 8
- Kosovar 165
- Krou 1
- Kuchi 4
- Kumyks 7
- Kuna 1
- Kurd 610
- Labour law 18
- Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 254
- Law of the sea 1
- Laws relating to religion 172
- Legal representation / Legal aid 54
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 735
- Lezgin 7
- Livelihoods 211
- Location of camps 3
- Luo 2
- Lutheran 5
- Maasai 3
- Macedonians 1
- Malays 8
- 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 179
- Mayans 2
- Mbororo 1
- Medical screening 5
- Melanesians 1
- Memoranda of understanding (MOU) 2
- Mende 1
- Mennonite 4
- Mental harm 1
- Mental health 82
- Mentally disadvantaged persons 22
- Mercenaries 22
- Merina 1
- Meskhetians 10
- Messianic Jews 1
- Methodist 9
- Migrant rights 193
- Migrants 1,001
- Military courts 179
- Military law 89
- Military operations 1,604
- Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 297
- Minorities 845
- Minority rights 157
- Mon 7
- Mongols 61
- Montagnards 32
- Mormon 6
- Moros 1
- Multiple nationality 18
- Muslim 1,775
- National security / Public order 214
- Naturalization 5
- Nepalis 4
- Nogai 6
- Nomads 17
- Non-refoulement 50
- Non-self-governing territories 20
- Non-state agents of persecution 57
- Nuba 6
- Nuer 16
- Ogaden 1
- Older persons 24
- One-child policy / Family planning 33
- Opposition 3,143
- Orang Asli 1
- Orderly return 24
- Oromo 8
- Orthodox Christian 236
- Ossetians (South) 110
- Palestinian 651
- Pamiris 1
- Panjshiris 1
- Papuans 23
- Pashtun 27
- Passports 59
- Pastoralists 2
- Peace agreements 597
- Peace process 1,147
- Peacekeeping 1,074
- Pentecostal 39
- Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 233
- Persecution based on nationality 9
- Persecution based on political opinion 1,326
- Persecution of family members 109
- Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 356
- Persons not in need of international protection 14
- Persons of concern to UNHCR 26
- Persons with disabilities 134
- Physical harm 1
- Piracy 31
- Poles 16
- Police 1,629
- Political asylum 40
- Political groups 692
- Political parties 1,587
- Political situation 5,966
- Polygamy 17
- Population transfers 5
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 9
- Pre-trial detention 259
- Presbyterian 27
- Prevention of discrimination 26
- Prison or detention conditions 1,049
- Prisoners of war 93
- Proof of nationality 1
- Property restitution 32
- Prosecution vs persecution 154
- Prostitution / Commercial sex work 84
- Protection of camps 28
- Protection of civilian persons in time of war 1,464
- Protestant 357
- Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 2,045
- Public health 511
- Punjabis 2
- Racial / Ethnic persecution 178
- Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 49
- Ratification 3
- Re-entry 2
- Reception 78
- Reconciliation 415
- Referendum 232
- Refoulement 35
- Refugee / Asylum law 32
- Refugee camps 520
- Refugee identity documents 17
- Refugee seamen 164
- Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 21
- Refugees 3,023
- Refugees sur place 4
- Regional instruments 1
- Registration 59
- Reintegration 84
- Rejected asylum-seekers 27
- Rejection at border 39
- Religious discrimination 1,437
- Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 442
- Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 77
- Resettlement 187
- Residence permits / Residency 33
- Return conditions 198
- Returnees 376
- Right to a nationality 30
- Right to development 13
- Right to education 495
- Right to employment 136
- Right to family life 29
- Right to food 369
- Right to health 327
- Right to justice 355
- Right to leave 7
- Right to liberty and security 34
- Right to life 98
- Right to registration at birth 19
- Right to return 24
- Right to seek asylum 93
- Right to self-determination 153
- Rights of non-citizens 17
- Rohingya (Arakanese) 310
- Roma 135
- Romanians 1
- Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 1,224
- Russians 132
- Rwandans 7
- SGBV 887
- Sabean Mandean 10
- Safe country of origin 16
- Safe third country 10
- Saharawis 27
- Salafi 122
- Sale of children 28
- Sami 2
- San Bushmen 1
- Sanctions 343
- Scientologist 3
- Secondary movement 30
- Security forces 1,911
- Security situation 6,914
- Serb 83
- Serious non-political crime 44
- Seventh Day Adventist 47
- Sexual and reproductive rights 136
- Shabak 23
- Shamanism 1
- Shan 41
- Sharia law 70
- Shia 443
- Signatories and Parties 1
- Sikh 15
- Sindhis 3
- Single heads of household 2
- Sinhalese 6
- Slavs 11
- Small arms 97
- Smuggling of persons 108
- Social group discrimination 96
- Social group persecution 29
- Somalis 235
- Spontaneous return 6
- Standard of proof 3
- State of emergency 134
- State protection 35
- Statelessness 95
- Sufi 68
- Sunni 365
- Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 35
- Tajik 45
- Talysh 4
- Tamil 130
- Taoist 1
- Tatars 203
- Temporary admission 6
- Temporary protection 7
- Terrorism 3,679
- Threats / Intimidation 154
- Tibetan 943
- Tiv 2
- Torres Strait Islanders 1
- Torture 519
- Trafficking in persons 305
- Transgression of social / cultural norms 4
- Transit 23
- Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 227
- Travel documents 8
- Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 54
- Tuareg 95
- Turkmen 54
- Turks 10
- Tutsis 28
- Uighur 727
- Ukrainians 15
- Unaccompanied / Separated children 82
- Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 65
- Unlawful departure 2
- Urban refugees 28
- Urueu-Wau-Wau 1
- Uzbek 187
- Vietnamese 7
- Visas 109
- Voluntary repatriation 157
- War crimes 810
- Well-founded fear of persecution 7
- Widowed persons 5
- Witchcraft 11
- Withdrawal of nationality 11
- Witnesses 67
- Women's rights 1,091
- Women-at-risk 382
- Work permits 16
- Yazīdī 96
- Zoroastrian 6
- Zulus 1
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