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 2
- Access to procedures 1
- Ahmadis 2
- Arbitrary arrest and detention 22
- Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 7
- Armenian 1
- Assyrians 2
- Asylum policy 1
- Asylum-seekers 1
- Baha'i 10
- Child labour 8
- Child prostitution 6
- Child soldiers 1
- Children's rights 18
- Children-at-risk 14
- Christian 10
- Corruption 7
- Criminal justice 6
- Death in custody 3
- Death penalty 4
- Democracy 3
- Disappeared persons 20
- Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 20
- Domestic violence 2
- Drug trafficking 2
- Economic, social and cultural rights 13
- Effective protection 1
- Effective remedy 2
- Elections 8
- Evangelical 9
- Exiles 1
- Extrajudicial executions 19
- Female genital mutilation (FGM) 1
- Forced labour 24
- Forced marriage 4
- Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 20
- Freedom of assembly and association 23
- Freedom of conscience 1
- Freedom of expression 21
- Freedom of information 8
- Freedom of movement 21
- Freedom of religion 38
- Freedom of speech 21
- Gender discrimination 21
- Gender-based persecution 2
- HIV and AIDS 1
- Honour killings 1
- Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 2
- Human rights activists 1
- Human rights and fundamental freedoms 14
- Human rights monitors 6
- Immigration Detention 1
- Impunity 6
- Independence of judiciary 6
- Indigenous persons 1
- Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 1
- International protection 3
- Jew 11
- Juvenile justice system 2
- Kurd 3
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 7
- Migrants 3
- Minorities 8
- Muslim 10
- Opposition 2
- Palestinian 1
- Pentecostal 1
- Persecution based on nationality 1
- Persecution based on political opinion 10
- Persecution of family members 1
- Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 4
- Persons with disabilities 6
- Police 5
- Political parties 1
- Pre-trial detention 3
- Prison or detention conditions 11
- Property restitution 4
- Prostitution / Commercial sex work 8
- Protestant 9
- Racial / Ethnic persecution 1
- Refoulement 1
- Refugees 8
- Religious discrimination 27
- Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 17
- Right to education 1
- Right to employment 1
- Right to registration at birth 1
- Right to self-determination 4
- Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 6
- SGBV 18
- Sabean Mandean 6
- Sale of children 2
- Security forces 7
- Sexual and reproductive rights 1
- Shia 13
- Small arms 1
- Smuggling of persons 3
- Social group discrimination 13
- Social group persecution 1
- Statelessness 1
- Sufi 10
- Sunni 10
- Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 3
- Terrorism 23
- Threats / Intimidation 5
- Torture 5
- Trafficking in persons 37
- Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 2
- Women's rights 18
- Women-at-risk 13
- Zoroastrian 17
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