Iraq

• Amnesty International 114
• Article 19 8
• Asylum Aid 22
• Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement 1
• Committee to Protect Journalists 71
• EurasiaNet 8
• Germany: Federal Office for Migration and Asylum 281
• Human Rights Watch 127
• Institute for Research on Public Policy 1
• Institute for War and Peace Reporting 215
• Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) 241
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 17
• International Crisis Group (ICG) 2
• International Federation for Human Rights 9
• International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) 1
• Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre 1
• Jamestown Foundation 51
• Minority Rights Group International 6
• Norwegian Refugee Council/Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (NRC/IDMC) 2
• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 1,580
• Reporters Without Borders 154
• UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) 36
• UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 125
• UN News Service 507
• UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) 1
• United States Congressional Research Service 1
• World Organisation Against Torture 4

• Abduction 112
• Abuse of psychiatry 2
• Access to water 10
• Adoption 1
• Afars 1
• Africans 4
• Ahmadis 6
• Ahwazi 1
• Airports 2
• Alawi 2
• Albanians 7
• Albinism/Persons with Albinism 6
• Anti-terrorism law 18
• Appeal / Right to appeal 1
• Arabs 27
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 74
• Armed attacks on camps 43
• Armed forces / Military 237
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 624
• Armenian 4
• Arrival 1
• Assyrians 6
• Asylum policy 4
• Asylum-migration nexus 1
• Asylum-seekers 62
• Baha'i 2
• Bedoon 2
• Border conflict 49
• Border controls 12
• Border crossers 18
• Buddhist 17
• Burden-sharing and international co-operation 7
• Camp management 4
• Capacity building of state institutions 9
• Catholic 2
• Ceasefire 95
• Chaldean 7
• Chechen 13
• Child labour 1
• Child prostitution 1
• Child soldiers 17
• Children's rights 38
• Children-at-risk 52
• Chinese 2
• Christian 147
• Circassians 1
• Civil and political rights 5
• Civil war 41
• Civilian character of asylum 1
• Climate change (including environmental migrants) 3
• Combatants / Former combatants 8
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 50
• Complementary forms of protection 1
• Conflict prevention 4
• Conflict resolution 24
• Conflict situation 91
• Contemporary forms of slavery 5
• Copts 3
• Corruption 62
• Country of origin information (COI) 7
• Coup d'état 19
• Crime prevention 1
• Crimean Tatars 4
• Crimes against humanity 28
• Criminal justice 20
• Death in custody 2
• Death penalty 154
• Death squads 7
• Demobilization / Disarmament 8
• Democracy 11
• Deportation / Forcible return 24
• Disappeared persons 27
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 28
• Domestic violence 5
• Drug trafficking 4
• Druze 4
• Economic, social and cultural rights 19
• Effective remedy 13
• Election law 6
• Elections 307
• Embargo 2
• Emigrants 2
• Equal opportunities 4
• Ethiopians 4
• Ethnic cleansing 4
• Evacuation 2
• Exiles 62
• Expulsion 1
• Extradition 8
• Extrajudicial executions 103
• Extreme poverty 5
• Falun Gong 2
• Family reunification 3
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 17
• Flight by land, air or sea 9
• Forced labour 2
• Forced marriage 16
• Forced relocation 3
• Foreign occupation 15
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 75
• Freedom of assembly and association 129
• Freedom of conscience 5
• Freedom of expression 423
• Freedom of information 293
• Freedom of movement 15
• Freedom of religion 60
• Freedom of speech 250
• Fulani 5
• Gang related violence 4
• Gender discrimination 14
• Gender-based persecution 7
• Generalized violence 7
• Genocide 10
• Good governance 59
• HIV and AIDS 6
• Han 2
• Harmful traditional practices 8
• Hindu 8
• Honour killings 18
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 14
• Human Rights Council 4
• Human rights activists 41
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 48
• Human rights courts 1
• Human rights law 1
• Human rights monitors 5
• Humanitarian assistance 164
• Hutus 1
• IDP camps 29
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 4
• Immigrants 8
• Immigration Detention 5
• Immigration law 1
• Immunity 4
• Impunity 34
• Independence of judiciary 5
• Indigenous persons 2
• Integration 7
• Internal armed conflict 412
• Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 1
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 297
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 1
• International armed conflict 6
• International courts and tribunals 15
• International criminal law 2
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 20
• International protection 2
• Involuntary repatriation 1
• Iranians 28
• Jehovah's Witness 1
• Jew 3
• Juvenile justice system 1
• Kachin 6
• Kosovar 1
• Kurd 314
• Labour law 1
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 20
• Legal representation / Legal aid 1
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 73
• Livelihoods 9
• Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims 2
• Maronite 2
• Maternal and child health care 2
• Memoranda of understanding (MOU) 2
• Mental health 1
• Mercenaries 3
• Migrant rights 4
• Migrants 91
• Military courts 4
• Military law 2
• Military operations 275
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 7
• Minorities 58
• Minority rights 16
• Muslim 146
• National security / Public order 7
• Nepalis 2
• Non-refoulement 1
• Non-state agents of persecution 3
• One-child policy / Family planning 4
• Opposition 106
• Orderly return 1
• Palestinian 65
• Passports 4
• Peace agreements 66
• Peace process 26
• Peacekeeping 43
• Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 7
• Persecution based on political opinion 97
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 48
• Persons not in need of international protection 2
• Persons of concern to UNHCR 3
• Persons with disabilities 6
• Police 109
• Political asylum 2
• Political groups 44
• Political parties 127
• Political situation 400
• Polygamy 4
• Population transfers 2
• Pre-trial detention 1
• Prison or detention conditions 37
• Protection of camps 9
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 162
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 171
• Public health 29
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 13
• Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 2
• Reception 15
• Reconciliation 25
• Referendum 29
• Refoulement 1
• Refugee / Asylum law 1
• Refugee camps 82
• Refugee seamen 9
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 5
• Refugees 369
• Registration 13
• Reintegration 2
• Rejected asylum-seekers 2
• Rejection at border 6
• Religious discrimination 29
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 95
• Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 3
• Resettlement 29
• Return conditions 18
• Returnees 39
• Right to a nationality 2
• Right to education 17
• Right to family life 1
• Right to food 15
• Right to health 17
• Right to justice 10
• Right to liberty and security 3
• Right to life 5
• Right to registration at birth 1
• Right to return 1
• Right to seek asylum 4
• Right to self-determination 5
• Rohingya (Arakanese) 8
• Roma 5
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 40
• SGBV 56
• Sabean Mandean 9
• Safe country of origin 14
• Safe third country 1
• Salafi 15
• Sanctions 9
• Secondary movement 8
• Security forces 230
• Security situation 708
• Serb 2
• Sexual and reproductive rights 2
• Shabak 23
• Shan 2
• Sharia law 4
• Shia 212
• Sindhis 2
• Single heads of household 1
• Small arms 3
• Smuggling of persons 5
• Social group discrimination 5
• Social group persecution 6
• Somalis 2
• Spontaneous return 1
• State of emergency 26
• State protection 1
• Statelessness 3
• Sufi 2
• Sunni 168
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 1
• Tajik 2
• Tamil 11
• Tatars 4
• Temporary protection 1
• Terrorism 823
• Threats / Intimidation 8
• Tibetan 14
• Tiv 2
• Torture 23
• Trafficking in persons 16
• Transgression of social / cultural norms 1
• Transit 6
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 2
• Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 6
• Tuareg 7
• Turkmen 36
• Uighur 52
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 5
• Urban refugees 4
• Visas 9
• Voluntary repatriation 14
• War crimes 65
• Well-founded fear of persecution 1
• Witchcraft 2
• Women's rights 65
• Women-at-risk 46
• Yazīdī 86
• Zoroastrian 2

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• American Kurdish Information Network
• Amnesty International - Iraq
• Assyrian International News Agency (AINA)
• Azzaman.com
• Centre of Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance
• Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
• Embassy of the United States in Iraq
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Iraq
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) - Iraq
• Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) - Iraq
• Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) - Iraq
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC in Iraq
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC mission in Ankara
• International Crisis Group (ICG) - Iraq
• Iraq Body Count (IBC)
• Iraq Daily
• Iraqi News
• Kurdish Media
• Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq (KRG)
• NGO Coordination Committee for Iraq (NCCI)
• New York Times - Iraq News
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Iraq
• Peyamner News Agency
• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) - Iraq
• Radio Free Iraq
• ReliefWeb - Iraq
• Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR)
• UNHCR - Iraq
• United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Iraq
• United Nations News Centre - News Focus: Iraq
• United States Department of State - Iraq
• United States Department of State: Congressional Research Service Reports (CRS) and Issue Briefs
• World Food Programme (WFP) - Iraq
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Iraq