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Africans 1
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Refugees 47
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Sikh 2
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Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 12
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War crimes 3
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Women's rights 29
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Freedom in the World 2017 - Switzerland 1 September 2017 \| Publisher: Freedom House \| Document type: Annual Reports
Urteil D-2311/2016 vom 17. August 2017 17 August 2017 \| Judicial Body: Switzerland: Tribunal administratif fédéral \| Document type: Case Law \| Topic(s): Deportation / Forcible return - Forced labour - Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription - Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures \| Countries: Eritrea - Switzerland
2016 Report on International Religious Freedom - Switzerland 15 August 2017 \| Publisher: United States Department of State \| Document type: Annual Reports
Iraq: Swiss reporter dies from Mosul injuries – "too many headstones" 29 June 2017 \| Publisher: Reporters Without Borders \| Document type: Country News
2017 Trafficking in Persons Report - Switzerland 27 June 2017 \| Publisher: United States Department of State \| Document type: Annual Reports
M.O. v. Switzerland 20 June 2017 \| Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights \| Document type: Case Law \| Legal Instrument: 1950 European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) \| Topic(s): Credibility assessment - Exhaustion of domestic remedies - Expulsion - Forced labour - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment \| Countries: Eritrea - Switzerland
Medienmitteilung: Ungarn - Das Bundesverwaltungsgericht entscheidet über Dublin-Verfahren mit Überstellung nach Ungarn 9 June 2017 \| Publisher: Switzerland: Tribunal administratif fédéral \| Document type: Legal Articles/Analyses/Commentaries
The detention of asylum seekers in Europe Constructed on shaky ground? June 2017 \| Publisher: European Council on Refugees and Exiles \| Document type: Regional Reports
A. (République démocratique du Congo) c. Secrétariat d'Etat aux migrations (SEM) 31 May 2017 \| Judicial Body: Switzerland: Tribunal administratif fédéral \| Document type: Case Law \| Topic(s): Asylum-seekers - Refugee / Asylum law - Refugees - Safe third country \| Countries: Congo, Democratic Republic of the - Hungary - Switzerland
A.I. c. Suisse http://www.asylumlawdatabase.eu/en/content/ecthr-na-v-switzerland-no-5036414-ai-v-switzerland-no-2337815-articles-2-and-3-30-may-2017 30 May 2017 \| Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights \| Document type: Case Law \| Legal Instrument: 1950 European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) \| Topic(s): Expulsion - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Persecution based on political opinion - Refoulement - Right to life \| Countries: Sudan - Switzerland

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