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Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)
1
Amnesty International
6,304
Article 19
1,209
Asylum Aid
102
Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement
9
Child Soldiers International
1
Committee to Protect Journalists
3,008
Council of Europe: Committee for the Prevention of Torture
1
Council of Europe: Parliamentary Assembly
1
Equal Rights Trust
2
EurasiaNet
2,234
European Union: European Commission
1
Forum 18
2,311
Freedom from Torture
1
Freedom House
1
Germany: Federal Office for Migration and Asylum
369
HelpAge International
1
Human Rights Watch
6,409
Hungarian Helsinki Committee
3
Immigration Advisory Service (IAS)
4
Institute for Research on Public Policy
1
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
3,302
Inter-Agency Standing Committee
5
Inter-Parliamentary Union
9
International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)
22
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
480
International Crisis Group (ICG)
156
International Federation for Human Rights
2,096
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
9
International Refugee Rights Initiative (IRRI)
1
Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre
6
IRIN
5,897
Jamestown Foundation
3,839
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
8,026
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
23,196
REDRESS
4
Refugees International
4
Reporters Without Borders
6,824
Swiss Refugee Council
1
UN Ad Hoc Committee on Refugees and Stateless Persons
4
UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)
43
UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA)
15
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)
1,842
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
10,813
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
11
UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
24
UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
1
UN Security Council
4
UN Support Mission in Libya
1
UN World Health Organization (WHO)
1
United Kingdom: Home Office
1
United Nations
1
United States Congressional Research Service
13
World Organisation Against Torture
249
Afghanistan
5,121
Albania
136
Algeria
267
American Samoa
2
Andorra
2
Angola
187
Anguilla
2
Antigua and Barbuda
3
Argentina
95
Armenia
1,347
Aruba
2
Australia
199
Austria
90
Azerbaijan
2,334
Bahamas
3
Bahrain
696
Bangladesh
817
Barbados
7
Belarus
1,418
Belgium
54
Belize
9
Benin
63
Bermuda
6
Bhutan
19
Bolivia
92
Bosnia and Herzegovina
492
Botswana
25
Brazil
358
British Virgin Islands
1
Brunei Darussalam
5
Bulgaria
132
Burkina Faso
217
Burundi
593
Cambodia
1,539
Cameroon
459
Canada
83
Cape Verde
4
Cayman Islands
2
Central African Republic
982
Chad
432
Chile
94
China
6,434
Colombia
623
Comoros
34
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
1,767
Congo, Republic of the
151
Costa Rica
18
Croatia
206
Cuba
224
Cyprus
74
Czech Republic
92
Côte d'Ivoire
700
Denmark
36
Djibouti
89
Dominica
3
Dominican Republic
89
Ecuador
133
Egypt
1,965
El Salvador
101
Equatorial Guinea
68
Eritrea
270
Estonia
45
Eswatini
76
Ethiopia
567
Falkland Islands
2
Fiji
39
Finland
32
France
318
Gabon
66
Gambia
297
Georgia
1,815
Germany
268
Ghana
108
Greece
395
Greenland
1
Grenada
5
Guam
1
Guatemala
175
Guinea
298
Guinea-Bissau
146
Guyana
12
Haiti
217
Holy See (Vatican City State)
20
Honduras
319
Hong Kong (Special Administrative Region of China)
373
Hungary
206
Iceland
3
India
834
Indonesia
454
Iran, Islamic Republic of
3,633
Iraq
4,275
Ireland
20
Israel
1,251
Italy
225
Jamaica
32
Japan
78
Jordan
402
Kazakhstan
2,087
Kenya
1,002
Kiribati
2
Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
714
Korea, Republic of
140
Kuwait
157
Kyrgyzstan
2,018
Lao People's Democratic Republic
367
Latvia
85
Lebanon
754
Lesotho
33
Liberia
273
Libya
1,688
Liechtenstein
2
Lithuania
95
Luxembourg
5
Macau (Special Administrative Region of China)
10
Madagascar
94
Malawi
100
Malaysia
478
Maldives
117
Mali
842
Malta
23
Mauritania
206
Mauritius
8
Mexico
711
Moldova, Republic of
485
Monaco
1
Mongolia
79
Montenegro
117
Montserrat
1
Morocco
344
Mozambique
76
Myanmar
2,818
Namibia
12
Nauru
30
Nepal
454
Netherlands
121
New Caledonia
1
New Zealand
9
Nicaragua
60
Niger
362
Nigeria
1,215
North Macedonia
363
Norway
43
Oman
83
Pakistan
3,338
Palau
1
Palestine, State of
1,345
Panama
47
Papua New Guinea
105
Paraguay
65
Peru
135
Philippines
620
Poland
133
Portugal
18
Puerto Rico
2
Qatar
118
Romania
142
Russian Federation
9,104
Rwanda
310
Saint Kitts and Nevis
4
Saint Lucia
1
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
4
Saudi Arabia
708
Senegal
240
Serbia
1,005
Seychelles
3
Sierra Leone
194
Singapore
90
Slovakia
57
Slovenia
72
Solomon Islands
2
Somalia
1,880
South Africa
281
South Sudan
1,210
Spain
95
Sri Lanka
751
Sudan
1,535
Suriname
13
Sweden
97
Switzerland
57
Syrian Arab Republic
5,385
Tajikistan
1,367
Tanzania, United Republic of
167
Thailand
870
Timor-Leste (East Timor)
105
Togo
109
Tokelau
1
Tonga
3
Trinidad and Tobago
12
Tunisia
678
Turkey
2,284
Turkmenistan
615
Turks and Caicos Islands
2
Tuvalu
1
U.S. Virgin Islands
2
Uganda
687
Ukraine
3,359
United Arab Emirates
212
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
362
United States of America
2,256
Uruguay
34
Uzbekistan
1,522
Vanuatu
5
Venezuela
315
Viet Nam
1,098
Western Sahara Territory
77
Yemen
1,781
Zambia
110
Zimbabwe
629
1951 Refugee Convention
4
Abduction
1,044
Abkhazians
98
Abuse of psychiatry
95
Access to procedures
60
Access to water
314
Acholi
1
Acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations
5
Acts of persecution
8
Adivasis
3
Administrative courts
9
Admission quotas
2
Adoption
37
Adygey
1
Afars
1
Africans
23
Afro-Colombians
10
Age discrimination
6
Ahmadis
69
Ahwazi
12
Airports
83
Ajarians
1
Alawi
14
Albanians
35
Albinism/Persons with Albinism
43
Alevis
1
Aliens
6
Altai
1
Amazonian Indians
4
Amhara
3
Anti-terrorism law
193
Apartheid
2
Appeal / Right to appeal
89
Arabs
84
Arbitrary arrest and detention
3,379
Armed attacks on camps
148
Armed forces / Military
3,449
Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements
5,151
Armenian
94
Arrival
22
Ashkaelian
4
Assamese
1
Assemblies of God
1
Assyrians
14
Asylum policy
47
Asylum-migration nexus
120
Asylum-seekers
889
Atheist / Agnostic
9
Atheist / Agnostic
2
Avars
15
Awá
4
Azeri
48
Baha'i
69
Bail
56
Balkars
9
Baluchis
51
Bantu
4
Banyamulenge
2
Banyarwanda
1
Baptist
346
Basarwa
2
Bashkirs
8
Basques
2
Batwa
5
Bedoon
44
Belarusians
7
Bengalis
9
Berber
12
Berti
1
Bihari
4
Blood feuds
3
Bodos
1
Border conflict
969
Border controls
273
Border crossers
227
Bosnian
30
Buddhist
246
Bulgarians
3
Burden-sharing and international co-operation
76
Cabinda
3
Caferis
1
Camp management
43
Capacity building of state institutions
16
Catholic
168
Ceasefire
748
Cessation clauses
3
Chakma
1
Chaldean
7
Cham
4
Changes of circumstances in home country
1
Chechen
549
Cherkess
2
Child labour
134
Child prostitution
42
Child soldiers
316
Children's rights
954
Children-at-risk
1,068
Chin
19
Chinese
29
Chittagong Hill Tribes
9
Christian
891
Chukchi
1
Chuvash
3
Circassians
118
Citizenship / Nationality law
20
Civil and political rights
796
Civil rights legislation
3
Civil war
776
Civilian character of asylum
2
Climate change (including environmental migrants)
35
Combatants / Former combatants
262
Communal conflict / Social conflict
939
Community development
16
Complementary forms of protection
7
Confidentiality
4
Conflict prevention
191
Conflict resolution
1,346
Conflict situation
2,006
Confucianist
2
Constitutional law
21
Contemporary forms of slavery
78
Convention against Torture (CAT)
9
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
12
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CPRD)
1
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
5
Convention refugee
1
Copts
63
Corruption
1,103
Corsicans
1
Cossacks
50
Country of origin information (COI)
20
Coup d'état
296
Credibility assessment
1
Crime prevention
16
Crimean Tatars
144
Crimes against humanity
539
Crimes against peace
6
Criminal justice
1,882
Croats
15
Cumulative grounds of persecution
1
Customary law
3
Czechs
1
Dalit
11
Darfuri
6
Dargins
7
Death in custody
330
Death penalty
1,440
Death squads
43
Demobilization / Disarmament
283
Democracy
501
Denial of nationality
8
Denial of refugee status
10
Deportation / Forcible return
694
Dinka
15
Dioula
1
Diplomatic assurances
2
Diplomatic protection
3
Disappeared persons
1,016
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity
529
Domestic violence
200
Drug trafficking
292
Druze
10
Economic, social and cultural rights
340
Effective protection
22
Effective remedy
729
Egyptians
10
Election law
52
Elections
3,814
Embargo
98
Embera
1
Emergency legislation
16
Emigrants
24
Endorois
3
Entry / Exit
19
Entry into force
1
Enxet
1
Equal opportunities
30
Equality before the law
16
Eritreans
49
Ethiopians
45
Ethnic cleansing
54
Evacuation
101
Evangelical
20
Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports)
11
Exclusion clauses
3
Exhaustion of domestic remedies
3
Exiles
192
Expedited procedures
4
Expulsion
145
Extradition
257
Extrajudicial executions
1,497
Extreme poverty
166
False documents
13
Falun Gong
21
Family law
6
Family reunification
51
Female genital mutilation (FGM)
91
Filipinos
7
Flight by land, air or sea
105
Forced labour
216
Forced marriage
149
Forced relocation
45
Forced sterilization / Abortion
94
Foreign occupation
340
Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment
1,836
Freedom of assembly and association
3,225
Freedom of conscience
492
Freedom of expression
17,342
Freedom of information
10,819
Freedom of movement
573
Freedom of religion
3,242
Freedom of speech
8,276
French
4
Fulani
21
Fur
1
Gaboye
1
Gagauz
8
Galicians
1
Gang related violence
69
Gender discrimination
305
Gender mainstreaming
41
Gender-based persecution
129
Generalized violence
101
Genocide
288
Germans
4
Global Consultations on international protection
1
Good governance
1,559
Good offices
34
Greeks
1
Gross, systematic and large-scale
35
Group / Prima facie determination
1
HIV and AIDS
252
Habeas corpus
5
Haitians
28
Han
21
Hare Krishna
69
Harmful traditional practices
106
Hazara
32
Hema
1
Hijacking
9
Hindu
53
Hmong
31
Honour killings
81
Housing, land and property rights (HLP)
1,183
Hui
1
Human Rights Council
214
Human rights activists
4,626
Human rights and fundamental freedoms
2,207
Human rights courts
77
Human rights law
68
Human rights monitors
914
Humanitarian assistance
2,426
Humanitarian protection (including tolerated stay)
8
Hungarians
6
Hutus
36
IDP camps
270
Illegal entry
14
Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants
118
Illegitimate children
1
Immigrants
71
Immigration Detention
220
Immigration control after entry
7
Immigration law
5
Immunity
101
Impunity
1,452
Income-generating projects
2
Independence of judiciary
368
Indians
2
Indigenous persons
278
Ingush
117
Integration
98
Internal armed conflict
4,063
Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA)
6
Internally displaced persons (IDPs)
3,354
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
363
International courts and tribunals
652
International criminal law
129
International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions
342
International protection
21
Involuntary repatriation
41
Iranians
44
Jain
1
Japanese
6
Jehovah's Witness
508
Jew
94
Jurisdiction
10
Juvenile justice system
109
Kabards
13
Kachin
185
Kalenjin
6
Kalmyks
1
Karachay
14
Karen
36
Kashmiris
54
Kazakhs
31
Khakass
6
Khmer
5
Khmer Krom
4
Kikuyu
3
Komi
6
Koreans
8
Kosovar
238
Krou
1
Kuchi
4
Kumyks
7
Kuna
1
Kurd
745
Labour law
18
Laks
1
Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs)
298
Law of the sea
3
Laws relating to religion
193
Legal representation / Legal aid
74
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI)
949
Lezgin
7
Livelihoods
252
Location of camps
4
Luba
1
Luo
4
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
20
Massaleit
1
Maternal and child health care
216
Mayans
2
Mbororo
1
Medical screening
6
Melanesians
1
Memoranda of understanding (MOU)
5
Mende
1
Mennonite
4
Mental harm
4
Mental health
101
Mentally disadvantaged persons
26
Mercenaries
23
Merina
1
Meskhetians
10
Messianic Jews
1
Methodist
10
Migrant rights
260
Migrants
1,265
Military courts
209
Military law
105
Military operations
2,061
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription
334
Minorities
871
Minority rights
171
Mon
10
Mongols
85
Montagnards
39
Mormon
7
Moros
1
Multiple nationality
23
Muslim
2,092
National security / Public order
331
Naturalization
7
Nepalis
4
Nogai
7
Nomads
22
Non-refoulement
52
Non-self-governing territories
25
Non-state agents of persecution
145
Nuba
8
Nuer
18
Ogaden
1
Older persons
35
One-child policy / Family planning
33
Opposition
3,636
Orang Asli
1
Orderly return
25
Oromo
15
Orthodox Christian
269
Ossetians (South)
118
Palestinian
759
Pamiris
1
Panjshiris
1
Papuans
28
Pashtun
32
Passports
81
Pastoralists
3
Peace agreements
710
Peace process
1,379
Peacekeeping
1,312
Pentecostal
40
Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation
531
Persecution based on nationality
9
Persecution based on political opinion
1,748
Persecution of family members
141
Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity
473
Persons not in need of international protection
14
Persons of concern to UNHCR
27
Persons with disabilities
171
Physical harm
7
Piracy
37
Poles
16
Police
1,991
Political asylum
50
Political groups
715
Political parties
1,797
Political situation
6,679
Polygamy
20
Population transfers
6
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
11
Pre-entry procedures
1
Pre-trial detention
318
Presbyterian
28
Prevention of discrimination
31
Prison or detention conditions
1,271
Prisoners of war
99
Proof of nationality
1
Property restitution
35
Prosecution vs persecution
164
Prostitution / Commercial sex work
91
Protection of camps
28
Protection of civilian persons in time of war
1,909
Protestant
390
Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest
2,965
Public health
614
Punjabis
2
Racial / Ethnic persecution
221
Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes
63
Ratification
4
Re-entry
2
Reception
122
Reconciliation
477
Referendum
317
Refoulement
45
Refugee / Asylum law
38
Refugee camps
575
Refugee identity documents
19
Refugee seamen
183
Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures
28
Refugee travel documents / CTDs
1
Refugees
3,732
Refugees sur place
6
Regional instruments
2
Registration
78
Reintegration
107
Rejected asylum-seekers
41
Rejection at border
61
Religious discrimination
1,676
Religious persecution (including forced conversion)
572
Rescue at sea / Interception at sea
114
Resettlement
225
Residence permits / Residency
41
Return conditions
270
Returnees
449
Right to a nationality
35
Right to development
20
Right to education
595
Right to employment
144
Right to family life
29
Right to food
450
Right to health
439
Right to justice
612
Right to leave
31
Right to liberty and security
44
Right to life
120
Right to registration at birth
25
Right to return
38
Right to seek asylum
120
Right to self-determination
189
Rights of non-citizens
22
Rohingya (Arakanese)
745
Roma
158
Romanians
1
Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness
1,385
Russians
147
Rwandans
8
Sabean Mandean
10
Safe country of origin
16
Safe third country
14
Saharawis
31
Salafi
127
Sale of children
29
Sami
2
San Bushmen
1
Sanctions
413
Scientologist
3
Secondary movement
32
Security forces
2,171
Security situation
7,321
Serb
104
Serious non-political crime
60
Seventh Day Adventist
49
Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV)
1,068
Sexual and reproductive rights
165
Shabak
23
Shamanism
1
Shan
76
Sharia law
74
Shia
506
Signatories and Parties
1
Sikh
23
Sindhis
3
Single heads of household
2
Sinhalese
7
Slavs
11
Small arms
107
Smuggling of persons
143
Social group discrimination
115
Social group persecution
34
Somalis
249
Spontaneous return
7
Standard of proof
3
State of emergency
189
State protection
46
Statelessness
120
Statelessness Determination Procedures
6
Sufi
88
Sunni
406
Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking
50
Tajik
49
Talysh
4
Tamil
133
Taoist
1
Tatars
287
Temporary admission
7
Temporary protection
10
Terrorism
4,515
Threats / Intimidation
297
Tibetan
1,120
Tiv
2
Torres Strait Islanders
1
Torture
624
Trafficking in persons
345
Transgression of social / cultural norms
4
Transit
27
Transitional justice (including amnesty laws)
252
Travel documents
16
Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations
58
Tuareg
98
Turkmen
59
Turks
12
Tutsis
28
Uighur
863
Ukrainians
15
Unaccompanied / Separated children
121
Universal Periodic Review (UPR)
80
Unlawful departure
2
Urban refugees
30
Urueu-Wau-Wau
1
Uzbek
193
Vietnamese
7
Visas
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