Iraq

• Amnesty International 144
• Article 19 8
• Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement 1
• Committee to Protect Journalists 81
• Consonant (formerly Asylum Aid) 22
• EurasiaNet 8
• Forum 18 1
• Germany: Federal Office for Migration and Asylum 322
• Human Rights Watch 206
• Institute for War and Peace Reporting 217
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 21
• International Crisis Group (ICG) 6
• International Federation for Human Rights 9
• International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) 1
• Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre 1
• IRIN 268
• Jamestown Foundation 68
• Minority Rights Group International 6
• Norwegian Refugee Council/Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (NRC/IDMC) 2
• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 1,819
• Reporters Without Borders 173
• UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) 43
• UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 172
• UN News Service 672
• UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) 1
• UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) 1
• United States Congressional Research Service 1
• World Organisation Against Torture 4

• Abduction 132
• Abuse of psychiatry 2
• Access to water 14
• Adoption 1
• Afars 1
• Africans 4
• Ahmadis 6
• Ahwazi 1
• Airports 2
• Alawi 2
• Albanians 7
• Albinism/Persons with Albinism 6
• Anti-terrorism law 21
• Appeal / Right to appeal 1
• Arabs 30
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 108
• Armed attacks on camps 49
• Armed forces / Military 312
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 808
• Armenian 4
• Arrival 1
• Assyrians 6
• Asylum policy 4
• Asylum-migration nexus 5
• Asylum-seekers 64
• Baha'i 2
• Bedoon 2
• Border conflict 52
• Border controls 13
• Border crossers 18
• Buddhist 17
• Burden-sharing and international co-operation 7
• Camp management 4
• Capacity building of state institutions 9
• Catholic 4
• Ceasefire 98
• Chaldean 7
• Chechen 14
• Child labour 2
• Child prostitution 1
• Child soldiers 23
• Children's rights 53
• Children-at-risk 86
• Chinese 2
• Christian 160
• Circassians 1
• Citizenship / Nationality law 1
• Civil and political rights 9
• Civil war 62
• Civilian character of asylum 1
• Climate change (including environmental migrants) 3
• Combatants / Former combatants 12
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 57
• Complementary forms of protection 1
• Conflict prevention 6
• Conflict resolution 33
• Conflict situation 105
• Contemporary forms of slavery 6
• Copts 8
• Corruption 67
• Country of origin information (COI) 7
• Coup d'état 21
• Crime prevention 1
• Crimean Tatars 4
• Crimes against humanity 37
• Criminal justice 21
• Death in custody 3
• Death penalty 172
• Death squads 7
• Demobilization / Disarmament 11
• Democracy 13
• Deportation / Forcible return 30
• Disappeared persons 32
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 28
• Domestic violence 19
• Drug trafficking 5
• Druze 4
• Economic, social and cultural rights 23
• Effective remedy 19
• Election law 7
• Elections 358
• Embargo 2
• Emigrants 2
• Equal opportunities 4
• Ethiopians 4
• Ethnic cleansing 4
• Evacuation 4
• Exiles 62
• Expulsion 2
• Extradition 8
• Extrajudicial executions 132
• Extreme poverty 5
• Falun Gong 2
• Family reunification 5
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 19
• Flight by land, air or sea 10
• Forced labour 3
• Forced marriage 23
• Forced relocation 3
• Foreign occupation 15
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 89
• Freedom of assembly and association 158
• Freedom of conscience 5
• Freedom of expression 496
• Freedom of information 334
• Freedom of movement 29
• Freedom of religion 74
• Freedom of speech 271
• Fulani 7
• Gang related violence 4
• Gender discrimination 16
• Gender-based persecution 10
• Generalized violence 7
• Genocide 16
• Good governance 65
• HIV and AIDS 6
• Han 2
• Harmful traditional practices 8
• Hazara 1
• Hindu 8
• Honour killings 18
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 16
• Human Rights Council 4
• Human rights activists 68
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 50
• Human rights courts 1
• Human rights law 1
• Human rights monitors 9
• Humanitarian assistance 228
• Hutus 1
• IDP camps 37
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 4
• Immigrants 8
• Immigration Detention 5
• Immigration law 1
• Immunity 4
• Impunity 39
• Independence of judiciary 7
• Indigenous persons 4
• Integration 8
• Internal armed conflict 621
• Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 1
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 414
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 1
• International armed conflict 6
• International courts and tribunals 18
• International criminal law 2
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 31
• International protection 2
• Involuntary repatriation 1
• Iranians 28
• Jehovah's Witness 1
• Jew 3
• Juvenile justice system 1
• Kachin 6
• Kosovar 1
• Kurd 374
• Labour law 1
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 27
• Legal representation / Legal aid 2
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 76
• Livelihoods 11
• Location of camps 1
• Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims 2
• Maronite 2
• Mass exodus 1
• Maternal and child health care 5
• Memoranda of understanding (MOU) 2
• Mental health 3
• Mercenaries 3
• Migrant rights 7
• Migrants 109
• Military courts 9
• Military law 2
• Military operations 411
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 7
• Minorities 58
• Minority rights 16
• Muslim 165
• National security / Public order 13
• Nepalis 2
• Non-refoulement 1
• Non-state agents of persecution 29
• One-child policy / Family planning 4
• Opposition 122
• Orderly return 1
• Palestinian 68
• Passports 7
• Peace agreements 76
• Peace process 31
• Peacekeeping 69
• Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 16
• Persecution based on political opinion 123
• Persecution of family members 4
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 49
• Persons not in need of international protection 2
• Persons of concern to UNHCR 3
• Persons with disabilities 8
• Police 133
• Political asylum 2
• Political groups 46
• Political parties 149
• Political situation 455
• Polygamy 4
• Population transfers 2
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 1
• Pre-trial detention 5
• Prison or detention conditions 39
• Protection of camps 9
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 239
• Protestant 4
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 198
• Public health 37
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 15
• Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 4
• Ratification 1
• Reception 21
• Reconciliation 33
• Referendum 38
• Refoulement 1
• Refugee / Asylum law 1
• Refugee camps 89
• Refugee seamen 10
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 5
• Refugees 403
• Registration 13
• Reintegration 3
• Rejected asylum-seekers 2
• Rejection at border 6
• Religious discrimination 48
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 105
• Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 4
• Resettlement 31
• Return conditions 26
• Returnees 51
• Right to a nationality 2
• Right to education 19
• Right to family life 1
• Right to food 22
• Right to health 29
• Right to justice 21
• Right to liberty and security 3
• Right to life 5
• Right to registration at birth 4
• Right to return 2
• Right to seek asylum 4
• Right to self-determination 15
• Rohingya (Arakanese) 12
• Roma 8
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 44
• Sabean Mandean 9
• Safe country of origin 14
• Safe third country 1
• Salafi 15
• Sanctions 9
• Secondary movement 8
• Security forces 280
• Security situation 762
• Serb 2
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 73
• Sexual and reproductive rights 3
• Shabak 23
• Shan 2
• Sharia law 4
• Shia 237
• Sindhis 2
• Single heads of household 1
• Small arms 4
• Smuggling of persons 7
• Social group discrimination 9
• Social group persecution 6
• Somalis 2
• Spontaneous return 1
• State of emergency 32
• State protection 1
• Statelessness 6
• Statelessness Determination Procedures 1
• Sufi 4
• Sunni 180
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 2
• Tajik 2
• Tamil 12
• Tatars 4
• Temporary protection 1
• Terrorism 1,034
• Threats / Intimidation 10
• Tibetan 19
• Tiv 2
• Torture 27
• Trafficking in persons 18
• Transgression of social / cultural norms 1
• Transit 6
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 2
• Travel documents 1
• Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 6
• Tuareg 7
• Turkmen 39
• Uighur 54
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 6
• Urban refugees 4
• Visas 11
• Voluntary repatriation 16
• War crimes 86
• Well-founded fear of persecution 1
• Witchcraft 2
• Women's rights 79
• Women-at-risk 58
• Yazīdī 113
• 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