Sierra Leone

• Country News 26

• Abduction 11
• Alawi 2
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 4
• Armed attacks on camps 1
• Armed forces / Military 15
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 22
• Border conflict 6
• Ceasefire 9
• Chechen 4
• Child soldiers 2
• Christian 2
• Civil war 2
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 3
• Conflict resolution 2
• Corruption 5
• Coup d'état 4
• Death penalty 6
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 2
• Elections 24
• Ethiopians 2
• Extradition 2
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 2
• Foreign occupation 4
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 4
• Freedom of assembly and association 15
• Freedom of expression 12
• Freedom of information 14
• Freedom of movement 2
• Freedom of religion 2
• Freedom of speech 8
• Fulani 2
• Harmful traditional practices 2
• Honour killings 2
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 5
• Human rights activists 2
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 2
• Humanitarian assistance 4
• Internal armed conflict 9
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 8
• International courts and tribunals 4
• Kachin 2
• Kurd 8
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 6
• Maronite 2
• Migrant rights 2
• Migrants 4
• Military operations 8
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 2
• Muslim 9
• Opposition 9
• Palestinian 10
• Peace agreements 7
• Peacekeeping 4
• Persecution based on political opinion 8
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 4
• Police 11
• Political parties 5
• Political situation 22
• Prison or detention conditions 2
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 5
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 18
• Public health 8
• Refugees 13
• Religious discrimination 3
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 2
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 2
• Security forces 12
• Security situation 25
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 2
• Shia 4
• Smuggling of persons 2
• State of emergency 2
• Sunni 6
• Tamil 4
• Terrorism 27
• Tibetan 2
• Tiv 2
• Trafficking in persons 2
• Uighur 4
• War crimes 2
• Witchcraft 2
• Women's rights 2
• Women-at-risk 4

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• Amnesty International - Sierra Leone
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Sierra Leone
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) - Sierra Leone
• Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) - Sierra Leone
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC in Guinea
• International Crisis Group (ICG) - Sierra Leone
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) - Sierra Leone
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Sierra Leone
• ReliefWeb - Sierra Leone
• The Special Court for Sierra Leone
• UNHCR - Sierra Leone
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Sierra Leone
• United States Department of State - Sierra Leone
• World Food Programme (WFP) - Sierra Leone
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Sierra Leone