Somalia

Country Information 1,657

Abduction 66
Abuse of psychiatry 2
Access to water 12
Africans 3
Ahmadis 6
Alawi 2
Albanians 4
Albinism/Persons with Albinism 6
Aliens 1
Anti-terrorism law 11
Appeal / Right to appeal 2
Arabs 1
Arbitrary arrest and detention 70
Armed attacks on camps 16
Armed forces / Military 116
Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 213
Assyrians 2
Asylum policy 1
Asylum-migration nexus 14
Asylum-seekers 68
Bantu 3
Border conflict 39
Border controls 1
Border crossers 2
Buddhist 6
Burden-sharing and international co-operation 9
Camp management 4
Capacity building of state institutions 1
Ceasefire 82
Chechen 8
Child labour 2
Child prostitution 1
Child soldiers 20
Children's rights 41
Children-at-risk 56
Christian 68
Civil and political rights 5
Civil war 31
Climate change (including environmental migrants) 4
Combatants / Former combatants 9
Communal conflict / Social conflict 27
Community development 1
Complementary forms of protection 1
Conflict prevention 3
Conflict resolution 52
Conflict situation 109
Constitutional law 4
Contemporary forms of slavery 2
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 2
Corruption 34
Country of origin information (COI) 4
Coup d'état 13
Crimean Tatars 4
Crimes against humanity 9
Criminal justice 15
Death penalty 81
Demobilization / Disarmament 6
Democracy 11
Deportation / Forcible return 38
Disappeared persons 9
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 27
Domestic violence 4
Drug trafficking 6
Druze 2
Economic, social and cultural rights 6
Effective remedy 10
Elections 166
Embargo 9
Emigrants 1
Endorois 1
Equal opportunities 1
Eritreans 3
Ethiopians 12
Exiles 5
Extradition 7
Extrajudicial executions 64
Extreme poverty 5
Falun Gong 2
Family reunification 3
Female genital mutilation (FGM) 12
Flight by land, air or sea 7
Forced labour 3
Forced marriage 14
Forced relocation 2
Foreign occupation 13
Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 28
Freedom of assembly and association 77
Freedom of conscience 2
Freedom of expression 351
Freedom of information 222
Freedom of movement 2
Freedom of religion 24
Freedom of speech 176
Fulani 6
Fur 1
Gaboye 1
Gang related violence 2
Gender discrimination 3
Gender-based persecution 9
Generalized violence 5
Good governance 72
Good offices 3
HIV and AIDS 2
Han 3
Harmful traditional practices 6
Hijacking 2
Hindu 9
Honour killings 7
Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 9
Human rights activists 39
Human rights and fundamental freedoms 36
Human rights monitors 3
Humanitarian assistance 121
IDP camps 24
Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 6
Immigrants 8
Immigration Detention 3
Impunity 20
Independence of judiciary 3
Indigenous persons 3
Integration 4
Internal armed conflict 270
Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 1
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 255
International armed conflict 10
International courts and tribunals 11
International criminal law 2
International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 4
International protection 1
Involuntary repatriation 3
Jehovah's Witness 1
Jew 2
Kachin 2
Kurd 60
Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 8
Laws relating to religion 1
Legal representation / Legal aid 1
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 50
Livelihoods 21
Maronite 2
Mass exodus 1
Massaleit 1
Maternal and child health care 9
Mental health 1
Mentally disadvantaged persons 1
Migrant rights 5
Migrants 68
Military courts 6
Military law 2
Military operations 94
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 15
Minorities 2
Minority rights 3
Muslim 89
National security / Public order 1
Nepalis 1
Nomads 1
Non-refoulement 1
Non-state agents of persecution 3
Nuer 2
Older persons 1
One-child policy / Family planning 4
Opposition 75
Orderly return 1
Oromo 2
Palestinian 48
Passports 2
Peace agreements 75
Peace process 56
Peacekeeping 69
Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 7
Persecution based on nationality 1
Persecution based on political opinion 69
Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 32
Persons not in need of international protection 4
Persons of concern to UNHCR 8
Persons with disabilities 6
Piracy 11
Police 69
Political groups 6
Political parties 57
Political situation 273
Polygamy 3
Pre-trial detention 1
Prison or detention conditions 11
Prostitution / Commercial sex work 1
Protection of camps 5
Protection of civilian persons in time of war 94
Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 91
Public health 18
Racial / Ethnic persecution 3
Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 2
Reception 2
Reconciliation 27
Referendum 23
Refoulement 4
Refugee / Asylum law 1
Refugee camps 105
Refugee seamen 31
Refugees 323
Registration 2
Reintegration 3
Rejected asylum-seekers 1
Rejection at border 1
Religious discrimination 15
Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 39
Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 8
Resettlement 16
Return conditions 10
Returnees 19
Right to education 14
Right to employment 1
Right to family life 1
Right to food 33
Right to health 19
Right to justice 5
Right to liberty and security 1
Right to life 6
Right to return 1
Right to seek asylum 7
Right to self-determination 5
Rohingya (Arakanese) 7
Roma 4
Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 27
SGBV 46
Safe country of origin 6
Salafi 6
Sanctions 9
Secondary movement 3
Security forces 109
Security situation 559
Shabak 2
Sharia law 5
Shia 44
Sindhis 1
Small arms 6
Smuggling of persons 21
Social group discrimination 5
Social group persecution 4
Somalis 180
State of emergency 25
State protection 1
Statelessness 3
Sufi 5
Sunni 21
Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 2
Tamil 11
Tatars 4
Temporary protection 1
Terrorism 272
Threats / Intimidation 1
Tibetan 9
Tiv 2
Torture 5
Trafficking in persons 22
Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 32
Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 3
Tuareg 7
Turkmen 4
Uighur 41
Unaccompanied / Separated children 8
Urban refugees 8
Visas 4
Voluntary repatriation 17
War crimes 34
Women's rights 29
Women-at-risk 31
Yazīdī 8

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With ceasefire 'largely holding' in Yemen, UN refugee agency rushes in aid to embattled Taiz city 21 October 2016 \| Publisher: UN News Service \| Document type: Country News
Somalia: Al-Jazeera reporter, two cameramen held after trip outside Mogadishu 21 October 2016 \| Publisher: Reporters Without Borders \| Document type: Country News
Somalia closes newspaper, arrests editor 17 October 2016 \| Publisher: Committee to Protect Journalists \| Document type: Country News
Somalia: Leading Mogadishu daily's editor arrested 17 October 2016 \| Publisher: Reporters Without Borders \| Document type: Country News
Somalia closes newspaper, arrests editor 17 October 2016 \| Publisher: Committee to Protect Journalists \| Document type: Country News
Egypt boat disaster shines light on new migration trend 10 October 2016 \| Publisher: IRIN \| Document type: Country News
Ban appoints Hubert Price of US as head of the UN support office in Somalia 3 October 2016 \| Publisher: UN News Service \| Document type: Country News
Treaties against human trafficking key to fighting scourge, supporting victims – UN anti-crime official 29 September 2016 \| Publisher: UN News Service \| Document type: Country News
Security Council calls on Somali parties to address political challenges amid latest election delay 29 September 2016 \| Publisher: UN News Service \| Document type: Country News
Journalist held without charge in Somaliland 28 September 2016 \| Publisher: Committee to Protect Journalists \| Document type: Country News

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