Country News
Short articles covering a specific situation in a country of origin. Most often reporting on specific human rights abuses or conflict situations.
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- Amnesty International 5,728
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- Asylum Aid 102
- Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement 9
- Child Soldiers International 1
- Committee to Protect Journalists 2,865
- Council of Europe: Parliamentary Assembly 1
- Equal Rights Trust 2
- EurasiaNet 2,188
- Forum 18 2,184
- Freedom from Torture 1
- Freedom House 1
- Germany: Federal Office for Migration and Asylum 343
- Hague Conference on Private International Law 2
- HelpAge International 1
- Human Rights Watch 5,533
- Humanitarian Issues Working Group 1
- Hungarian Helsinki Committee 3
- Immigration Advisory Service (IAS) 4
- Institute for War and Peace Reporting 3,153
- Inter-Agency Standing Committee 5
- Inter-Parliamentary Union 9
- International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) 22
- International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 426
- International Crisis Group (ICG) 92
- International Federation for Human Rights 1,987
- International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) 9
- Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre 4
- IRIN 5,632
- Jamestown Foundation 3,479
- Minority Rights Group International 89
- Norwegian Refugee Council/Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (NRC/IDMC) 183
- Open Society Foundations (OSF) 1
- Overseas Development Institute (ODI) 3
- Quaker United Nations Office 1
- Radio Free Asia 7,231
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 19,658
- REDRESS 4
- Refugees International 2
- Reporters Without Borders 6,220
- Swiss Refugee Council 1
- UN Ad Hoc Committee on Refugees and Stateless Persons 3
- UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) 43
- UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) 13
- UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) 3
- UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) 1
- UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) 1
- UN General Assembly 3
- UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 1,678
- UN Human Rights Council 3
- UN Mission in Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) 2
- UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) 52
- UN Mission to South Sudan (UNMISS) 1
- UN News Service 9,691
- UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) 11
- UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) 12
- UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) 1
- UN Security Council 4
- UN World Health Organization (WHO) 1
- United Kingdom: Home Office 1
- United Nations 1
- United States Congressional Research Service 12
- World Organisation Against Torture 246
- Afghanistan 4,440
- Albania 107
- Algeria 228
- American Samoa 2
- Andorra 2
- Angola 169
- Anguilla 1
- Antigua and Barbuda 1
- Argentina 91
- Armenia 1,253
- Aruba 2
- Australia 153
- Austria 83
- Azerbaijan 2,196
- Bahamas 1
- Bahrain 654
- Bangladesh 595
- Barbados 3
- Belarus 1,250
- Belgium 46
- Belize 9
- Benin 62
- Bermuda 5
- Bhutan 20
- Bolivia 92
- Bosnia and Herzegovina 446
- Botswana 25
- Brazil 339
- Brunei Darussalam 5
- Bulgaria 118
- Burkina Faso 194
- Burundi 546
- Cambodia 1,391
- Cameroon 399
- Canada 80
- Cape Verde 4
- Cayman Islands 2
- Central African Republic 893
- Chad 395
- Chile 80
- China 5,953
- Colombia 568
- Comoros 32
- Congo, Democratic Republic of the 1,594
- Congo, Republic of the 145
- Costa Rica 15
- Croatia 194
- Cuba 216
- Cyprus 66
- Czech Republic 81
- Côte d'Ivoire 671
- Denmark 33
- Djibouti 84
- Dominica 1
- Dominican Republic 83
- Ecuador 126
- Egypt 1,828
- El Salvador 86
- Equatorial Guinea 63
- Eritrea 254
- Estonia 39
- Ethiopia 538
- Falkland Islands 2
- Fiji 38
- Finland 30
- France 271
- Gabon 64
- Gambia 278
- Georgia 1,681
- Germany 235
- Ghana 97
- Greece 337
- Greenland 1
- Grenada 4
- Guam 1
- Guatemala 164
- Guinea 288
- Guinea-Bissau 139
- Guyana 10
- Haiti 205
- Holy See (Vatican City State) 20
- Honduras 303
- Hong Kong (Special Administrative Region of China) 333
- Hungary 173
- Iceland 3
- India 737
- Indonesia 406
- Iran, Islamic Republic of 3,268
- Iraq 3,908
- Ireland 15
- Israel 1,143
- Italy 190
- Jamaica 31
- Japan 73
- Jordan 375
- Kazakhstan 1,831
- Kenya 931
- Kiribati 2
- Korea, Democratic People's Republic of 667
- Korea, Republic of 129
- Kuwait 147
- Kyrgyzstan 1,877
- Lao People's Democratic Republic 343
- Latvia 81
- Lebanon 711
- Lesotho 26
- Liberia 265
- Libya 1,536
- Liechtenstein 2
- Lithuania 85
- Luxembourg 5
- Macau (Special Administrative Region of China) 8
- Madagascar 86
- Malawi 96
- Malaysia 451
- Maldives 101
- Mali 758
- Malta 20
- Mauritania 182
- Mauritius 8
- Mexico 645
- Moldova, Republic of 416
- Monaco 1
- Mongolia 74
- Montenegro 84
- Montserrat 1
- Morocco 294
- Mozambique 70
- Myanmar 2,287
- Namibia 10
- Nauru 23
- Nepal 435
- Netherlands 108
- New Caledonia 1
- New Zealand 9
- Nicaragua 46
- Niger 316
- Nigeria 1,100
- Norway 36
- Oman 80
- Pakistan 2,978
- Palau 1
- Palestine, State of 1,238
- Panama 44
- Papua New Guinea 79
- Paraguay 60
- Peru 127
- Philippines 530
- Poland 107
- Portugal 14
- Puerto Rico 2
- Qatar 88
- Romania 109
- Russian Federation 7,777
- Rwanda 304
- Saint Kitts and Nevis 2
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 3
- Saudi Arabia 628
- Senegal 228
- Serbia 1,018
- Seychelles 3
- Sierra Leone 190
- Singapore 78
- Slovakia 49
- Slovenia 68
- Solomon Islands 2
- Somalia 1,782
- South Africa 269
- South Sudan 1,094
- Spain 84
- Sri Lanka 731
- Sudan 1,469
- Suriname 13
- Swaziland 73
- Sweden 91
- Switzerland 52
- Syrian Arab Republic 4,850
- Tajikistan 1,229
- Tanzania, United Republic of 152
- Thailand 810
- The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 298
- Timor-Leste (East Timor) 104
- Togo 104
- Tokelau 1
- Tonga 2
- Trinidad and Tobago 7
- Tunisia 644
- Turkey 1,952
- Turkmenistan 560
- Turks and Caicos Islands 2
- Tuvalu 1
- U.S. Virgin Islands 2
- Uganda 642
- Ukraine 2,825
- United Arab Emirates 193
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 333
- United States of America 2,028
- Uruguay 31
- Uzbekistan 1,380
- Vanuatu 5
- Venezuela 265
- Viet Nam 978
- Western Sahara Territory 67
- Yemen 1,602
- Zambia 101
- Zimbabwe 600
- 1951 Refugee Convention 4
- Abduction 929
- Abkhazians 86
- Abuse of psychiatry 87
- Access to procedures 56
- Access to water 280
- Acholi 1
- Acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations 5
- Acts of persecution 6
- Adivasis 3
- Administrative courts 8
- Admission quotas 2
- Adoption 35
- Adygey 1
- Afars 1
- Africans 21
- Afro-Colombians 8
- Age discrimination 4
- Ahmadis 64
- Ahwazi 12
- Airports 62
- Ajarians 1
- Alawi 14
- Albanians 31
- Albinism/Persons with Albinism 39
- Alevis 1
- Aliens 6
- Amazonian Indians 3
- Amhara 3
- Anti-terrorism law 174
- Apartheid 1
- Appeal / Right to appeal 87
- Arabs 83
- Arbitrary arrest and detention 3,061
- Armed attacks on camps 133
- Armed forces / Military 3,111
- Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 4,445
- Armenian 92
- Arrival 21
- Ashkaelian 3
- Assamese 1
- Assemblies of God 1
- Assyrians 13
- Asylum policy 39
- Asylum-migration nexus 98
- Asylum-seekers 792
- Atheist / Agnostic 9
- Atheist / Agnostic 2
- Avars 14
- Awá 4
- Azeri 48
- Baha'i 65
- Bail 47
- Balkars 9
- Baluchis 46
- Bantu 3
- Banyamulenge 2
- Banyarwanda 1
- Baptist 336
- Basarwa 2
- Bashkirs 4
- Basques 2
- Batwa 5
- Bedoon 42
- Belarusians 7
- Bengalis 9
- Berber 12
- Berti 1
- Bihari 4
- Blood feuds 3
- Bodos 1
- Border conflict 900
- Border controls 223
- Border crossers 205
- Bosnian 30
- Buddhist 220
- Bulgarians 3
- Burden-sharing and international co-operation 64
- Cabinda 3
- Caferis 1
- Camp management 39
- Capacity building of state institutions 16
- Catholic 148
- Ceasefire 707
- Cessation clauses 3
- Chakma 1
- Chaldean 7
- Cham 2
- Changes of circumstances in home country 1
- Chechen 466
- Cherkess 2
- Child labour 123
- Child prostitution 38
- Child soldiers 290
- Children's rights 855
- Children-at-risk 912
- Chin 19
- Chinese 27
- Chittagong Hill Tribes 8
- Christian 822
- Chukchi 1
- Chuvash 3
- Circassians 117
- Citizenship / Nationality law 13
- Civil and political rights 685
- Civil rights legislation 3
- Civil war 720
- Civilian character of asylum 1
- Climate change (including environmental migrants) 31
- Combatants / Former combatants 256
- Communal conflict / Social conflict 844
- Community development 14
- Complementary forms of protection 6
- Confidentiality 4
- Conflict prevention 169
- Conflict resolution 1,261
- Conflict situation 1,945
- Confucianist 1
- Constitutional law 20
- Contemporary forms of slavery 60
- Convention against Torture (CAT) 8
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 8
- Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CPRD) 1
- Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 5
- Convention refugee 1
- Copts 53
- Corruption 920
- Corsicans 1
- Cossacks 42
- Country of origin information (COI) 20
- Coup d'état 265
- Credibility assessment 1
- Crime prevention 16
- Crimean Tatars 96
- Crimes against humanity 495
- Crimes against peace 6
- Criminal justice 1,853
- Croats 15
- Cumulative grounds of persecution 1
- Customary law 3
- Czechs 1
- Dalit 10
- Darfuri 6
- Dargins 7
- Death in custody 292
- Death penalty 1,329
- Death squads 41
- Demobilization / Disarmament 272
- Democracy 447
- Denial of nationality 7
- Denial of refugee status 10
- Deportation / Forcible return 575
- Dinka 14
- Dioula 1
- Diplomatic assurances 2
- Diplomatic protection 3
- Disappeared persons 910
- Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 481
- Domestic violence 176
- Drug trafficking 247
- Druze 10
- Economic, social and cultural rights 328
- Effective protection 17
- Effective remedy 693
- Egyptians 9
- Election law 48
- Elections 3,471
- Embargo 85
- Embera 1
- Emergency legislation 16
- Emigrants 23
- Endorois 3
- Entry / Exit 17
- Entry into force 1
- Enxet 1
- Equal opportunities 30
- Equality before the law 16
- Eritreans 48
- Ethiopians 44
- Ethnic cleansing 38
- Evacuation 71
- Evangelical 16
- Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 11
- Exclusion clauses 3
- Exhaustion of domestic remedies 3
- Exiles 176
- Expedited procedures 4
- Expulsion 123
- Extradition 227
- Extrajudicial executions 1,332
- Extreme poverty 156
- False documents 12
- Falun Gong 21
- Family law 6
- Family reunification 43
- Female genital mutilation (FGM) 79
- Filipinos 7
- Flight by land, air or sea 93
- Forced labour 205
- Forced marriage 129
- Forced relocation 32
- Forced sterilization / Abortion 78
- Foreign occupation 311
- Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 1,733
- Freedom of assembly and association 2,866
- Freedom of conscience 453
- Freedom of expression 15,629
- Freedom of information 10,011
- Freedom of movement 505
- Freedom of religion 3,028
- Freedom of speech 7,954
- French 4
- Fulani 18
- Fur 1
- Gaboye 1
- Gagauz 7
- Galicians 1
- Gang related violence 59
- Gender discrimination 266
- Gender mainstreaming 33
- Gender-based persecution 115
- Generalized violence 59
- Genocide 274
- Germans 4
- Good governance 1,506
- Good offices 34
- Greeks 1
- Gross, systematic and large-scale 33
- Group / Prima facie determination 1
- HIV and AIDS 234
- Habeas corpus 5
- Haitians 27
- Han 18
- Hare Krishna 69
- Harmful traditional practices 103
- Hazara 25
- Hema 1
- Hijacking 9
- Hindu 40
- Hmong 30
- Honour killings 78
- Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 1,066
- Hui 1
- Human Rights Council 198
- Human rights activists 4,242
- Human rights and fundamental freedoms 2,100
- Human rights courts 62
- Human rights law 67
- Human rights monitors 778
- Humanitarian assistance 2,183
- Humanitarian protection (including tolerated stay) 8
- Hungarians 5
- Hutus 36
- IDP camps 254
- Illegal entry 11
- Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 108
- Illegitimate children 1
- Immigrants 62
- Immigration Detention 170
- Immigration control after entry 7
- Immigration law 5
- Immunity 92
- Impunity 1,344
- Income-generating projects 2
- Independence of judiciary 303
- Indians 2
- Indigenous persons 263
- Ingush 101
- Integration 96
- Internal armed conflict 3,809
- Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 4
- Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 3,154
- International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CPED) 5
- International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) 1
- International Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers (ICRMW) 4
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 12
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) 3
- International armed conflict 324
- International courts and tribunals 615
- International criminal law 123
- International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 299
- International protection 18
- Involuntary repatriation 30
- Iranians 43
- Jain 1
- Japanese 6
- Jehovah's Witness 458
- Jew 87
- Jurisdiction 10
- Juvenile justice system 90
- Kabards 12
- Kachin 149
- Kalenjin 6
- Kalmyks 1
- Karachay 14
- Karen 34
- Kashmiris 38
- Kazakhs 22
- Khakass 5
- Khmer 5
- Khmer Krom 4
- Kikuyu 3
- Komi 5
- Koreans 8
- Kosovar 179
- Krou 1
- Kuchi 4
- Kumyks 7
- Kuna 1
- Kurd 655
- Labour law 18
- Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 271
- Law of the sea 1
- Laws relating to religion 178
- Legal representation / Legal aid 58
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 788
- Lezgin 7
- Livelihoods 238
- Location of camps 4
- Luo 3
- Lutheran 5
- Maasai 3
- Macedonians 1
- Malays 9
- Malinke / Mandingo 2
- Mandate status 2
- Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims 4
- Mapuche 12
- Maronite 2
- Mass exodus 17
- Massaleit 1
- Maternal and child health care 193
- Mayans 2
- Mbororo 1
- Medical screening 6
- Melanesians 1
- Memoranda of understanding (MOU) 2
- Mende 1
- Mennonite 4
- Mental harm 1
- Mental health 91
- Mentally disadvantaged persons 22
- Mercenaries 22
- Merina 1
- Meskhetians 10
- Messianic Jews 1
- Methodist 9
- Migrant rights 214
- Migrants 1,124
- Military courts 190
- Military law 97
- Military operations 1,793
- Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 311
- Minorities 855
- Minority rights 163
- Mon 8
- Mongols 76
- Montagnards 35
- Mormon 7
- Moros 1
- Multiple nationality 19
- Muslim 1,910
- National security / Public order 261
- Naturalization 5
- Nepalis 4
- Nogai 6
- Nomads 17
- Non-refoulement 50
- Non-self-governing territories 21
- Non-state agents of persecution 78
- Nuba 7
- Nuer 17
- Ogaden 1
- Older persons 27
- One-child policy / Family planning 33
- Opposition 3,345
- Orang Asli 1
- Orderly return 24
- Oromo 11
- Orthodox Christian 244
- Ossetians (South) 110
- Palestinian 705
- Pamiris 1
- Panjshiris 1
- Papuans 24
- Pashtun 28
- Passports 70
- Pastoralists 2
- Peace agreements 672
- Peace process 1,260
- Peacekeeping 1,188
- Pentecostal 39
- Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 341
- Persecution based on nationality 9
- Persecution based on political opinion 1,583
- Persecution of family members 121
- Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 394
- Persons not in need of international protection 14
- Persons of concern to UNHCR 27
- Persons with disabilities 150
- Physical harm 1
- Piracy 33
- Poles 16
- Police 1,780
- Political asylum 43
- Political groups 698
- Political parties 1,705
- Political situation 6,363
- Polygamy 18
- Population transfers 5
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 10
- Pre-trial detention 292
- Presbyterian 28
- Prevention of discrimination 27
- Prison or detention conditions 1,109
- Prisoners of war 95
- Proof of nationality 1
- Property restitution 32
- Prosecution vs persecution 154
- Prostitution / Commercial sex work 89
- Protection of camps 28
- Protection of civilian persons in time of war 1,673
- Protestant 370
- Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 2,349
- Public health 546
- Punjabis 2
- Racial / Ethnic persecution 193
- Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 58
- Ratification 4
- Re-entry 2
- Reception 101
- Reconciliation 460
- Referendum 279
- Refoulement 38
- Refugee / Asylum law 35
- Refugee camps 537
- Refugee identity documents 17
- Refugee seamen 171
- Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 24
- Refugees 3,362
- Refugees sur place 5
- Regional instruments 1
- Registration 72
- Reintegration 99
- Rejected asylum-seekers 30
- Rejection at border 52
- Religious discrimination 1,525
- Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 491
- Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 85
- Resettlement 212
- Residence permits / Residency 34
- Return conditions 221
- Returnees 410
- Right to a nationality 31
- Right to development 17
- Right to education 542
- Right to employment 137
- Right to family life 29
- Right to food 413
- Right to health 363
- Right to justice 490
- Right to leave 27
- Right to liberty and security 39
- Right to life 112
- Right to registration at birth 21
- Right to return 27
- Right to seek asylum 104
- Right to self-determination 167
- Rights of non-citizens 18
- Rohingya (Arakanese) 430
- Roma 142
- Romanians 1
- Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 1,283
- Russians 138
- Rwandans 8
- SGBV 946
- Sabean Mandean 10
- Safe country of origin 16
- Safe third country 10
- Saharawis 29
- Salafi 123
- Sale of children 28
- Sami 2
- San Bushmen 1
- Sanctions 373
- Scientologist 3
- Secondary movement 32
- Security forces 2,050
- Security situation 7,139
- Serb 97
- Serious non-political crime 46
- Seventh Day Adventist 48
- Sexual and reproductive rights 140
- Shabak 23
- Shamanism 1
- Shan 63
- Sharia law 73
- Shia 470
- Signatories and Parties 1
- Sikh 15
- Sindhis 3
- Single heads of household 2
- Sinhalese 7
- Slavs 11
- Small arms 101
- Smuggling of persons 122
- Social group discrimination 101
- Social group persecution 31
- Somalis 242
- Spontaneous return 7
- Standard of proof 3
- State of emergency 173
- State protection 39
- Statelessness 103
- Sufi 74
- Sunni 383
- Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 44
- Tajik 46
- Talysh 4
- Tamil 132
- Taoist 1
- Tatars 213
- Temporary admission 6
- Temporary protection 7
- Terrorism 4,019
- Threats / Intimidation 227
- Tibetan 1,047
- Tiv 2
- Torres Strait Islanders 1
- Torture 565
- Trafficking in persons 322
- Transgression of social / cultural norms 4
- Transit 27
- Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 231
- Travel documents 8
- Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 54
- Tuareg 98
- Turkmen 55
- Turks 11
- Tutsis 28
- Uighur 774
- Ukrainians 15
- Unaccompanied / Separated children 101
- Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 68
- Unlawful departure 2
- Urban refugees 28
- Urueu-Wau-Wau 1
- Uzbek 191
- Vietnamese 7
- Visas 122
- Voluntary repatriation 175
- War crimes 867
- Well-founded fear of persecution 7
- Widowed persons 5
- Witchcraft 14
- Withdrawal of nationality 12
- Witnesses 69
- Women's rights 1,196
- Women-at-risk 426
- Work permits 17
- Yazīdī 110
- Zoroastrian 6
- Zulus 1
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