Refworld Case Law Collection Survey
United States Department of State
The Department of State is the lead institution for the conduct of American diplomacy, a mission based on the role of the Secretary of State as the President's principal foreign policy adviser. Each year, the Department of State's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor submits to the U.S. Congress a 5,000-page report on human rights conditions in 196 countries, referred to as the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. The Department of State also submits to Congress a yearly Report on International Religious Freedom. Website: www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/irf/
- Abduction 9
- Abuse of psychiatry 1
- Anglican 1
- Animist 1
- Arbitrary arrest and detention 20
- Armed forces / Military 1
- Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 9
- Armenian 1
- Asylum policy 1
- Asylum-seekers 1
- Baha'i 4
- Baptist 3
- Border conflict 1
- Buddhist 9
- Catholic 10
- Chechen 5
- Child labour 6
- Child prostitution 6
- Children's rights 19
- Children-at-risk 14
- Christian 10
- Christian Scientist 1
- Circassians 1
- Conflict situation 1
- Corruption 7
- Criminal justice 4
- Democracy 1
- Deportation / Forcible return 1
- Disappeared persons 17
- Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 21
- Domestic violence 1
- Economic, social and cultural rights 13
- Effective protection 1
- Elections 6
- Evangelical 4
- Exiles 1
- Extrajudicial executions 19
- Falun Gong 4
- Female genital mutilation (FGM) 1
- Flight by land, air or sea 1
- Forced labour 26
- Forced marriage 1
- Foreign occupation 1
- Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 20
- Freedom of assembly and association 22
- Freedom of expression 21
- Freedom of information 9
- Freedom of movement 17
- Freedom of religion 36
- Freedom of speech 17
- Gender discrimination 18
- Gender-based persecution 1
- HIV and AIDS 1
- Hare Krishna 5
- Hindu 4
- Honour killings 1
- Human rights activists 4
- Human rights and fundamental freedoms 14
- Human rights courts 1
- Human rights monitors 7
- Immigrants 3
- Immigration Detention 2
- Impunity 4
- Independence of judiciary 3
- Indigenous persons 4
- Internal armed conflict 4
- Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 5
- International protection 3
- Jehovah's Witness 8
- Jew 10
- Karachay 1
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 5
- Lutheran 2
- Mennonite 1
- Messianic Jews 1
- Methodist 2
- Migrant rights 1
- Migrants 4
- Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 2
- Minorities 11
- Minority rights 2
- Mormon 6
- Muslim 10
- National security / Public order 1
- Opposition 3
- Orthodox Christian 10
- Ossetians (South) 1
- Pentecostal 3
- Persecution based on nationality 2
- Persecution based on political opinion 7
- Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 4
- Persons with disabilities 6
- Police 6
- Political parties 1
- Pre-trial detention 1
- Presbyterian 1
- Prison or detention conditions 9
- Property restitution 1
- Prostitution / Commercial sex work 8
- Protection of civilian persons in time of war 1
- Protestant 10
- Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 2
- Racial / Ethnic persecution 1
- Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 1
- Refoulement 1
- Refugees 5
- Registration 1
- Rejected asylum-seekers 1
- Religious discrimination 27
- Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 12
- Right to education 1
- Right to registration at birth 1
- Right to self-determination 2
- Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 6
- SGBV 17
- Scientologist 5
- Security forces 7
- Seventh Day Adventist 3
- Sexual and reproductive rights 1
- Sikh 1
- Social group discrimination 13
- Statelessness 2
- Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 3
- Taoist 1
- Tatars 1
- Temporary protection 1
- Terrorism 23
- Threats / Intimidation 3
- Torture 8
- Trafficking in persons 38
- Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 4
- Witnesses 1
- Women's rights 18
- Women-at-risk 13
- Zoroastrian 1
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