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- Amnesty International 143
- Article 19 8
- Asylum Aid 22
- Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement 1
- Committee to Protect Journalists 81
- EurasiaNet 8
- Forum 18 1
- Germany: Federal Office for Migration and Asylum 322
- Human Rights Watch 206
- Institute for War and Peace Reporting 217
- International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 21
- International Crisis Group (ICG) 6
- International Federation for Human Rights 9
- International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) 1
- Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre 1
- IRIN 268
- Jamestown Foundation 68
- Minority Rights Group International 6
- Norwegian Refugee Council/Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (NRC/IDMC) 2
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 1,817
- Reporters Without Borders 173
- UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) 43
- UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 172
- UN News Service 672
- UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) 1
- UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) 1
- United States Congressional Research Service 1
- World Organisation Against Torture 4
- Abduction 132
- Abuse of psychiatry 2
- Access to water 14
- Adoption 1
- Afars 1
- Africans 4
- Ahmadis 6
- Ahwazi 1
- Airports 2
- Alawi 2
- Albanians 7
- Albinism/Persons with Albinism 6
- Anti-terrorism law 21
- Appeal / Right to appeal 1
- Arabs 30
- Arbitrary arrest and detention 108
- Armed attacks on camps 49
- Armed forces / Military 311
- Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 808
- Armenian 4
- Arrival 1
- Assyrians 6
- Asylum policy 4
- Asylum-migration nexus 5
- Asylum-seekers 64
- Baha'i 2
- Bedoon 2
- Border conflict 52
- Border controls 13
- Border crossers 18
- Buddhist 17
- Burden-sharing and international co-operation 7
- Camp management 4
- Capacity building of state institutions 9
- Catholic 4
- Ceasefire 98
- Chaldean 7
- Chechen 14
- Child labour 2
- Child prostitution 1
- Child soldiers 23
- Children's rights 53
- Children-at-risk 86
- Chinese 2
- Christian 160
- Circassians 1
- Citizenship / Nationality law 1
- Civil and political rights 9
- Civil war 62
- Civilian character of asylum 1
- Climate change (including environmental migrants) 3
- Combatants / Former combatants 12
- Communal conflict / Social conflict 57
- Complementary forms of protection 1
- Conflict prevention 6
- Conflict resolution 33
- Conflict situation 105
- Contemporary forms of slavery 6
- Copts 8
- Corruption 67
- Country of origin information (COI) 7
- Coup d'état 21
- Crime prevention 1
- Crimean Tatars 4
- Crimes against humanity 37
- Criminal justice 21
- Death in custody 3
- Death penalty 172
- Death squads 7
- Demobilization / Disarmament 11
- Democracy 13
- Deportation / Forcible return 30
- Disappeared persons 32
- Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 28
- Domestic violence 19
- Drug trafficking 5
- Druze 4
- Economic, social and cultural rights 23
- Effective remedy 19
- Election law 7
- Elections 358
- Embargo 2
- Emigrants 2
- Equal opportunities 4
- Ethiopians 4
- Ethnic cleansing 4
- Evacuation 4
- Exiles 62
- Expulsion 2
- Extradition 8
- Extrajudicial executions 132
- Extreme poverty 5
- Falun Gong 2
- Family reunification 5
- Female genital mutilation (FGM) 19
- Flight by land, air or sea 10
- Forced labour 3
- Forced marriage 23
- Forced relocation 3
- Foreign occupation 15
- Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 89
- Freedom of assembly and association 158
- Freedom of conscience 5
- Freedom of expression 495
- Freedom of information 334
- Freedom of movement 29
- Freedom of religion 74
- Freedom of speech 270
- Fulani 7
- Gang related violence 4
- Gender discrimination 16
- Gender-based persecution 10
- Generalized violence 7
- Genocide 16
- Good governance 65
- HIV and AIDS 6
- Han 2
- Harmful traditional practices 8
- Hazara 1
- Hindu 8
- Honour killings 18
- Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 16
- Human Rights Council 4
- Human rights activists 68
- Human rights and fundamental freedoms 50
- Human rights courts 1
- Human rights law 1
- Human rights monitors 9
- Humanitarian assistance 228
- Hutus 1
- IDP camps 37
- Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 4
- Immigrants 8
- Immigration Detention 5
- Immigration law 1
- Immunity 4
- Impunity 39
- Independence of judiciary 7
- Indigenous persons 4
- Integration 8
- Internal armed conflict 621
- Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 1
- Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 414
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 1
- International armed conflict 6
- International courts and tribunals 18
- International criminal law 2
- International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 31
- International protection 2
- Involuntary repatriation 1
- Iranians 28
- Jehovah's Witness 1
- Jew 3
- Juvenile justice system 1
- Kachin 6
- Kosovar 1
- Kurd 374
- Labour law 1
- Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 27
- Legal representation / Legal aid 2
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 76
- Livelihoods 11
- Location of camps 1
- Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims 2
- Maronite 2
- Mass exodus 1
- Maternal and child health care 5
- Memoranda of understanding (MOU) 2
- Mental health 3
- Mercenaries 3
- Migrant rights 7
- Migrants 109
- Military courts 9
- Military law 2
- Military operations 411
- Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 7
- Minorities 58
- Minority rights 16
- Muslim 165
- National security / Public order 13
- Nepalis 2
- Non-refoulement 1
- Non-state agents of persecution 29
- One-child policy / Family planning 4
- Opposition 122
- Orderly return 1
- Palestinian 68
- Passports 7
- Peace agreements 76
- Peace process 31
- Peacekeeping 69
- Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 16
- Persecution based on political opinion 123
- Persecution of family members 4
- Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 49
- Persons not in need of international protection 2
- Persons of concern to UNHCR 3
- Persons with disabilities 8
- Police 133
- Political asylum 2
- Political groups 46
- Political parties 149
- Political situation 455
- Polygamy 4
- Population transfers 2
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 1
- Pre-trial detention 5
- Prison or detention conditions 39
- Protection of camps 9
- Protection of civilian persons in time of war 239
- Protestant 4
- Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 197
- Public health 37
- Racial / Ethnic persecution 15
- Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 4
- Ratification 1
- Reception 21
- Reconciliation 33
- Referendum 38
- Refoulement 1
- Refugee / Asylum law 1
- Refugee camps 89
- Refugee seamen 10
- Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 5
- Refugees 403
- Registration 13
- Reintegration 3
- Rejected asylum-seekers 2
- Rejection at border 6
- Religious discrimination 48
- Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 105
- Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 4
- Resettlement 31
- Return conditions 26
- Returnees 51
- Right to a nationality 2
- Right to education 19
- Right to family life 1
- Right to food 22
- Right to health 29
- Right to justice 21
- Right to liberty and security 3
- Right to life 5
- Right to registration at birth 4
- Right to return 2
- Right to seek asylum 4
- Right to self-determination 15
- Rohingya (Arakanese) 12
- Roma 8
- Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 44
- Sabean Mandean 9
- Safe country of origin 14
- Safe third country 1
- Salafi 15
- Sanctions 9
- Secondary movement 8
- Security forces 280
- Security situation 762
- Serb 2
- Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 73
- Sexual and reproductive rights 3
- Shabak 23
- Shan 2
- Sharia law 4
- Shia 237
- Sindhis 2
- Single heads of household 1
- Small arms 4
- Smuggling of persons 7
- Social group discrimination 9
- Social group persecution 6
- Somalis 2
- Spontaneous return 1
- State of emergency 32
- State protection 1
- Statelessness 6
- Statelessness Determination Procedures 1
- Sufi 4
- Sunni 180
- Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 2
- Tajik 2
- Tamil 12
- Tatars 4
- Temporary protection 1
- Terrorism 1,033
- Threats / Intimidation 10
- Tibetan 19
- Tiv 2
- Torture 27
- Trafficking in persons 18
- Transgression of social / cultural norms 1
- Transit 6
- Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 2
- Travel documents 1
- Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 6
- Tuareg 7
- Turkmen 39
- Uighur 54
- Unaccompanied / Separated children 6
- Urban refugees 4
- Visas 11
- Voluntary repatriation 16
- War crimes 86
- Well-founded fear of persecution 1
- Witchcraft 2
- Women's rights 79
- Women-at-risk 58
- Yazīdī 113
- Zoroastrian 2
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