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• Annual Reports 187
• Commentaries 2
• Comments on Concluding Observations 1
• Compilations 3
• Concluding Observations 14
• Country News 55
• Country Operations Plans 3
• Country Profiles 3
• Country Reports 103
• Decisions 1
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• Regional Reports 9
• Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations 1
• States Parties Reports 23
• Statistics 1
• Thematic Reports 5
• UNHCR Country Updates 1

• 1951 Refugee Convention 1
• Abduction 1
• Access to procedures 7
• Age discrimination 1
• Airports 2
• Albinism/Persons with Albinism 1
• Aliens 1
• Anglican 7
• Anti-terrorism law 2
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 22
• Armed forces / Military 4
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 5
• Asylum policy 13
• Asylum-migration nexus 3
• Asylum-seekers 44
• Border conflict 1
• Border controls 1
• Border crossers 1
• Buddhist 10
• Capacity building of state institutions 1
• Catholic 10
• Chechen 1
• Child labour 7
• Child prostitution 9
• Child soldiers 3
• Children's rights 44
• Children-at-risk 26
• Christian 11
• Citizenship / Nationality law 3
• Civil and political rights 1
• Civilian character of asylum 1
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 1
• Complementary forms of protection 2
• Contemporary forms of slavery 1
• Convention against Torture (CAT) 1
• Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CPRD) 1
• Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 4
• Corruption 8
• Country of origin information (COI) 1
• Credibility assessment 1
• Crimes against humanity 2
• Criminal justice 13
• Death in custody 2
• Death penalty 1
• Democracy 4
• Deportation / Forcible return 6
• Disappeared persons 19
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 47
• Domestic violence 5
• EU Qualification Directive 4
• Economic, social and cultural rights 24
• Effective protection 2
• Effective remedy 1
• Elections 16
• Entry / Exit 1
• Eritreans 1
• Evangelical 1
• Expulsion 2
• Extrajudicial executions 14
• Family law 1
• Family reunification 11
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 6
• Forced labour 26
• Forced marriage 3
• Forced sterilization / Abortion 1
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 43
• Freedom of assembly and association 29
• Freedom of expression 49
• Freedom of information 19
• Freedom of movement 23
• Freedom of religion 52
• Freedom of speech 19
• French 1
• Gender discrimination 28
• Gender mainstreaming 1
• Gender-based persecution 5
• Genocide 1
• Germans 1
• Good governance 2
• HIV and AIDS 2
• Hare Krishna 10
• Hindu 10
• Honour killings 1
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 5
• Human Rights Council 12
• Human rights activists 1
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 42
• Human rights courts 3
• Human rights law 1
• Human rights monitors 5
• Humanitarian assistance 2
• Humanitarian protection (including tolerated stay) 1
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 2
• Immigrants 2
• Immigration Detention 10
• Impunity 3
• Independence of judiciary 3
• Indigenous persons 1
• Integration 5
• Internal armed conflict 1
• Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 1
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 3
• International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CPED) 2
• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) 3
• International courts and tribunals 2
• International criminal law 1
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 3
• International protection 7
• Involuntary repatriation 1
• Jehovah's Witness 6
• Jew 17
• Jurisdiction 1
• Kurd 3
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 1
• Legal representation / Legal aid 9
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 14
• Livelihoods 1
• Mentally disadvantaged persons 3
• Mercenaries 2
• Migrant rights 7
• Migrants 15
• Military operations 2
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 3
• Minorities 22
• Minority rights 4
• Mormon 6
• Muslim 14
• National security / Public order 4
• Non-refoulement 2
• Opposition 1
• Orthodox Christian 6
• Passports 2
• Peace process 3
• Peacekeeping 1
• Pentecostal 2
• Persecution based on nationality 1
• Persecution based on political opinion 3
• Persecution of family members 1
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 9
• Persons of concern to UNHCR 2
• Persons with disabilities 8
• Police 18
• Political parties 2
• Political situation 2
• Pre-entry procedures 1
• Pre-trial detention 1
• Prevention of discrimination 5
• Prison or detention conditions 35
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 8
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 2
• Protestant 10
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 3
• Public health 1
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 9
• Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 5
• Reception 6
• Reconciliation 1
• Refoulement 2
• Refugee / Asylum law 6
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 7
• Refugees 50
• Regional instruments 2
• Registration 1
• Rejected asylum-seekers 3
• Rejection at border 1
• Religious discrimination 37
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 11
• Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 1
• Resettlement 9
• Residence permits / Residency 5
• Right to a nationality 2
• Right to education 6
• Right to employment 13
• Right to health 1
• Right to liberty and security 2
• Right to life 1
• Right to registration at birth 4
• Right to seek asylum 1
• Right to self-determination 3
• Rights of non-citizens 2
• Roma 7
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 9
• Safe country of origin 2
• Safe third country 1
• Sami 2
• Sanctions 4
• Scientologist 10
• Security forces 9
• Security situation 3
• Seventh Day Adventist 6
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 32
• Sexual and reproductive rights 3
• Sharia law 1
• Sikh 10
• Small arms 2
• Smuggling of persons 3
• Social group discrimination 13
• State of emergency 1
• State protection 5
• Statelessness 9
• Statelessness Determination Procedures 2
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 8
• Temporary protection 2
• Terrorism 43
• Torture 8
• Trafficking in persons 55
• Travel documents 1
• Uighur 1
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 18
• Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 12
• Visas 2
• War crimes 1
• Witnesses 1
• Women's rights 37
• Women-at-risk 18

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• Amnesty International - Belgium
• Belgian Federal Government - Portal belgium.be
• Council of Europe, Venice Commission: Constitutional Courts (Links)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Belgium
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) - Belgium
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC delegation in Brussels
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) - Belgium
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Belgium
• Permanent Refugee Appeals Commission of Belgium
• ReliefWeb - Belgium
• UNHCR - Belgium
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Belgium
• United States Department of State - Belgium
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Belgium