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- Lebanon 85
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- Mozambique 5
- Myanmar 178
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- Russian Federation 312
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- Saudi Arabia 171
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- Serbia 24
- Sierra Leone 7
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- Somalia 61
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- Syrian Arab Republic 299
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- Tanzania, United Republic of 4
- Thailand 205
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- Tunisia 109
- Turkey 112
- Turkmenistan 45
- Uganda 74
- Ukraine 72
- United Arab Emirates 76
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 11
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- Uruguay 4
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- Venezuela 38
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- Western Sahara Territory 12
- Yemen 154
- Zambia 7
- Zimbabwe 53
- Abduction 81
- Abkhazians 1
- Abuse of psychiatry 11
- Access to procedures 17
- Access to water 6
- Acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations 1
- Acts of persecution 1
- Administrative courts 4
- Adoption 2
- Afro-Colombians 2
- Ahmadis 17
- Airports 2
- Alawi 2
- Aliens 1
- Amazonian Indians 1
- Anti-terrorism law 49
- Appeal / Right to appeal 8
- Arabs 13
- Arbitrary arrest and detention 780
- Armed attacks on camps 11
- Armed forces / Military 305
- Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 305
- Armenian 1
- Arrival 1
- Assemblies of God 1
- Asylum policy 6
- Asylum-migration nexus 8
- Asylum-seekers 141
- Atheist / Agnostic 1
- Awá 2
- Azeri 2
- Baha'i 5
- Bail 4
- Banyamulenge 1
- Baptist 4
- Batwa 1
- Bedoon 10
- Bengalis 1
- Berber 2
- Border conflict 12
- Border controls 18
- Border crossers 16
- Bosnian 1
- Buddhist 24
- Burden-sharing and international co-operation 6
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- Children's rights 110
- Children-at-risk 112
- Chinese 2
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- Civil and political rights 289
- Civil rights legislation 1
- Civil war 53
- Civilian character of asylum 1
- Combatants / Former combatants 14
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- Conflict prevention 3
- Conflict resolution 132
- Conflict situation 138
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- Constitutional law 5
- Contemporary forms of slavery 5
- Convention against Torture (CAT) 2
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 5
- Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 1
- Copts 8
- Corruption 70
- Country of origin information (COI) 3
- Coup d'état 21
- Crimean Tatars 9
- Crimes against humanity 109
- Criminal justice 273
- Croats 3
- Cumulative grounds of persecution 1
- Dalit 5
- Darfuri 1
- Death in custody 61
- Death penalty 175
- Death squads 17
- Demobilization / Disarmament 19
- Democracy 40
- Denial of refugee status 1
- Deportation / Forcible return 122
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- Disappeared persons 228
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- Drug trafficking 33
- Economic, social and cultural rights 19
- Effective protection 4
- Effective remedy 225
- Egyptians 3
- Election law 7
- Elections 175
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- Emergency legislation 5
- Entry / Exit 4
- Equal opportunities 7
- Equality before the law 9
- Eritreans 13
- Ethiopians 6
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- Evangelical 1
- Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 1
- Exclusion clauses 2
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- Extrajudicial executions 281
- Extreme poverty 5
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- Family law 3
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- Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 450
- Freedom of assembly and association 877
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- Freedom of expression 1,265
- Freedom of information 836
- Freedom of movement 93
- Freedom of religion 130
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- Gender mainstreaming 3
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- Generalized violence 6
- Genocide 14
- Good governance 181
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- Habeas corpus 2
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- Harmful traditional practices 9
- Hazara 2
- Hindu 2
- Hmong 2
- Honour killings 4
- Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 93
- Human Rights Council 43
- Human rights activists 795
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- Human rights law 17
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- Immigration Detention 51
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- Impunity 341
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- Indians 2
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- Integration 2
- Internal armed conflict 266
- Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 118
- International Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers (ICRMW) 2
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 5
- International armed conflict 40
- International courts and tribunals 93
- International criminal law 32
- International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 54
- Involuntary repatriation 4
- Iranians 2
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- Juvenile justice system 16
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- Karen 3
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- Kurd 67
- Labour law 9
- Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 38
- Laws relating to religion 9
- Legal representation / Legal aid 20
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 254
- Livelihoods 7
- Luo 1
- Malays 7
- Mandate status 1
- Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims 4
- Mapuche 1
- Mass exodus 1
- Maternal and child health care 14
- Medical screening 1
- Mental health 9
- Mentally disadvantaged persons 7
- Meskhetians 1
- Migrant rights 66
- Migrants 153
- Military courts 66
- Military law 47
- Military operations 149
- Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 15
- Minorities 61
- Minority rights 28
- Montagnards 3
- Multiple nationality 3
- Muslim 155
- National security / Public order 75
- Nomads 1
- Non-refoulement 16
- Non-self-governing territories 1
- Non-state agents of persecution 23
- Nuba 2
- Nuer 4
- Older persons 2
- One-child policy / Family planning 1
- Opposition 255
- Orderly return 1
- Oromo 4
- Palestinian 79
- Papuans 8
- Passports 9
- Peace agreements 18
- Peace process 13
- Peacekeeping 33
- Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 89
- Persecution based on political opinion 520
- Persecution of family members 10
- Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 152
- Persons not in need of international protection 2
- Persons of concern to UNHCR 1
- Persons with disabilities 44
- Police 249
- Political asylum 1
- Political groups 89
- Political parties 236
- Political situation 660
- Population transfers 2
- Pre-trial detention 43
- Prevention of discrimination 7
- Prison or detention conditions 221
- Prisoners of war 1
- Property restitution 3
- Prosecution vs persecution 13
- Prostitution / Commercial sex work 5
- Protection of camps 3
- Protection of civilian persons in time of war 290
- Protestant 1
- Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 294
- Public health 24
- Racial / Ethnic persecution 48
- Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 8
- Ratification 1
- Reception 14
- Reconciliation 29
- Referendum 23
- Refoulement 17
- Refugee / Asylum law 7
- Refugee camps 10
- Refugee identity documents 1
- Refugee seamen 15
- Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 3
- Refugee travel documents / CTDs 1
- Refugees 209
- Refugees sur place 6
- Registration 3
- Reintegration 1
- Rejected asylum-seekers 10
- Rejection at border 21
- Religious discrimination 74
- Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 57
- Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 10
- Resettlement 7
- Residence permits / Residency 10
- Return conditions 16
- Returnees 12
- Right to a nationality 3
- Right to education 57
- Right to employment 11
- Right to family life 5
- Right to food 9
- Right to health 44
- Right to justice 183
- Right to leave 11
- Right to liberty and security 8
- Right to life 19
- Right to registration at birth 3
- Right to return 11
- Right to seek asylum 44
- Right to self-determination 18
- Rights of non-citizens 5
- Rohingya (Arakanese) 78
- Roma 11
- Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 396
- Russians 3
- Safe third country 5
- Saharawis 7
- Salafi 4
- Sanctions 20
- Secondary movement 3
- Security forces 487
- Security situation 678
- Serb 4
- Serious non-political crime 3
- Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 122
- Sexual and reproductive rights 23
- Shabak 1
- Shan 1
- Sharia law 16
- Shia 44
- Sikh 4
- Sinhalese 1
- Small arms 2
- Smuggling of persons 6
- Social group discrimination 28
- Social group persecution 5
- Somalis 16
- State of emergency 32
- State protection 6
- Statelessness 15
- Sufi 7
- Sunni 19
- Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 4
- Tajik 1
- Tamil 24
- Tatars 9
- Temporary admission 1
- Temporary protection 5
- Terrorism 230
- Threats / Intimidation 10
- Tibetan 30
- Torture 78
- Trafficking in persons 20
- Transit 2
- Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 46
- Travel documents 3
- Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 6
- Tuareg 5
- Turkmen 6
- Turks 1
- Tutsis 1
- Uighur 30
- Unaccompanied / Separated children 16
- Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 25
- Urban refugees 1
- Uzbek 21
- Visas 8
- Voluntary repatriation 8
- War crimes 202
- Well-founded fear of persecution 4
- Widowed persons 1
- Withdrawal of nationality 1
- Witnesses 11
- Women's rights 190
- Women-at-risk 56
- Work permits 2
- Yazīdī 12
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