Sierra Leone

• Amnesty International 21
• Article 19 2
• Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement 1
• Committee to Protect Journalists 7
• Consonant (formerly Asylum Aid) 9
• Germany: Federal Office for Migration and Asylum 26
• Human Rights Watch 7
• Institute for War and Peace Reporting 6
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 1
• IRIN 44
• Reporters Without Borders 16
• UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 10
• UN News Service 44

• Abduction 11
• Access to procedures 1
• Administrative courts 1
• Alawi 2
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 12
• Armed attacks on camps 1
• Armed forces / Military 16
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 26
• Asylum-seekers 10
• Border conflict 6
• Ceasefire 9
• Changes of circumstances in home country 1
• Chechen 4
• Child labour 1
• Child soldiers 4
• Children's rights 4
• Children-at-risk 3
• Christian 3
• Citizenship / Nationality law 2
• Civil and political rights 1
• Civil war 11
• Combatants / Former combatants 1
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 3
• Conflict prevention 2
• Conflict resolution 11
• Conflict situation 5
• Corruption 9
• Coup d'état 4
• Crimes against humanity 8
• Criminal justice 1
• Death penalty 7
• Democracy 1
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 3
• Domestic violence 6
• Drug trafficking 1
• Economic, social and cultural rights 1
• Effective remedy 5
• Elections 35
• Equal opportunities 1
• Ethiopians 2
• Extradition 2
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 7
• Forced marriage 2
• Forced sterilization / Abortion 2
• Foreign occupation 4
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 5
• Freedom of assembly and association 17
• Freedom of conscience 1
• Freedom of expression 44
• Freedom of information 32
• Freedom of movement 2
• Freedom of religion 3
• Freedom of speech 23
• Fulani 2
• Gender discrimination 1
• Gender-based persecution 2
• Good governance 10
• Harmful traditional practices 3
• Honour killings 4
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 7
• Human rights activists 3
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 2
• Human rights monitors 1
• Humanitarian assistance 7
• IDP camps 1
• Immunity 1
• Impunity 5
• Internal armed conflict 9
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 15
• International courts and tribunals 11
• International criminal law 3
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 2
• International protection 1
• Kachin 2
• Kurd 8
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 8
• Livelihoods 2
• Maronite 2
• Maternal and child health care 7
• Mende 1
• Mental health 1
• Migrant rights 3
• Migrants 5
• Military operations 8
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 2
• Muslim 11
• One-child policy / Family planning 1
• Opposition 11
• Palestinian 11
• Peace agreements 10
• Peace process 4
• Peacekeeping 9
• Persecution based on political opinion 8
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 4
• Persons with disabilities 3
• Police 13
• Political groups 1
• Political parties 9
• Political situation 38
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 1
• Prison or detention conditions 6
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 5
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 19
• Public health 12
• Reconciliation 2
• Refugees 27
• Religious discrimination 3
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 2
• Resettlement 1
• Right to education 5
• Right to employment 1
• Right to health 1
• Right to justice 2
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 5
• Security forces 13
• Security situation 32
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 17
• Sexual and reproductive rights 2
• Shia 4
• Smuggling of persons 2
• State of emergency 3
• Statelessness 3
• Statelessness Determination Procedures 2
• Sunni 6
• Tamil 4
• Terrorism 29
• Threats / Intimidation 3
• Tibetan 2
• Tiv 2
• Trafficking in persons 5
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 1
• Travel documents 2
• Uighur 4
• Voluntary repatriation 2
• War crimes 25
• Witchcraft 2
• Women's rights 23
• Women-at-risk 11

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• Amnesty International - Sierra Leone
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Sierra Leone
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) - Sierra Leone
• Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) - Sierra Leone
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC in Guinea
• International Crisis Group (ICG) - Sierra Leone
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) - Sierra Leone
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Sierra Leone
• ReliefWeb - Sierra Leone
• The Special Court for Sierra Leone
• UNHCR - Sierra Leone
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Sierra Leone
• United States Department of State - Sierra Leone
• World Food Programme (WFP) - Sierra Leone
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Sierra Leone