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Case Law includes national and international jurisprudential decisions. Administrative bodies and tribunals are included.
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Canada: Court of Appeal for Ontario
3
Canada: Courts of Appeal
3
Canada: Federal Court
701
Canada: Federal Court of Appeal
91
Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
124
Canada: Provincial / Territorial Superior Courts
1
Canada: Supreme Court
51
Canada: Supreme Court of British Columbia
1
Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights
1
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)
5
New Zealand: Refugee Status Appeals Authority
1
UN Commission on Human Rights
1
UN Committee Against Torture (CAT)
24
UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
2
UN Human Rights Committee (HRC)
26
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
1
United States District Courts
1
United States Supreme Court
1
Abduction
3
Access to procedures
3
Acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations
6
Acts of persecution
3
Administrative courts
4
Agents of persecution
3
Ahmadis
2
Albanians
1
Alevis
1
Amish
1
Appeal / Right to appeal
15
Arbitrary arrest and detention
29
Armed forces / Military
15
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8
Arrival
1
Assyrians
2
Asylum policy
3
Asylum-migration nexus
1
Asylum-seekers
9
Benefit of the doubt
2
Blood feuds
5
Burden of proof
36
Catholic
3
Cessation clauses
6
Changes of circumstances in home country
16
Chechen
1
Child prostitution
1
Children's rights
17
Children-at-risk
30
Chinese
2
Christian
20
Citizenship / Nationality law
13
Combatants / Former combatants
7
Complementary forms of protection
32
Constitutional law
6
Convention against Torture (CAT)
5
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
3
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
5
Convention refugee
60
Corruption
6
Country of origin information (COI)
35
Credibility assessment
88
Crimes against humanity
77
Crimes against peace
2
Criminal justice
72
Croats
2
Cumulative grounds of persecution
4
Death penalty
13
Death squads
2
Decision on admissibility
5
Democracy
1
Denial of refugee status
4
Deportation / Forcible return
181
Diplomatic assurances
4
Diplomatic protection
1
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity
10
Domestic violence
38
Drug trafficking
25
Economic, social and cultural rights
2
Effective protection
24
Effective remedy
10
Elections
1
Equality before the law
6
Evangelical
2
Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports)
101
Exclusion clauses
88
Exhaustion of domestic remedies
7
Expulsion
26
Extended definition
1
Extradition
8
Extreme poverty
1
False documents
2
Falun Gong
5
Family law
1
Family reunification
12
Female genital mutilation (FGM)
5
Flight by land, air or sea
1
Forced labour
1
Forced marriage
3
Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment
98
Freedom of assembly and association
2
Freedom of conscience
3
Freedom of expression
29
Freedom of movement
2
Freedom of religion
7
Freedom of speech
26
Gang related violence
12
Gender discrimination
1
Gender-based persecution
17
Generalized violence
1
Genocide
3
Good governance
1
Grounds for persecution
16
HIV and AIDS
3
Habeas corpus
3
Hindu
1
Honour killings
1
Housing, land and property rights (HLP)
1
Human rights activists
1
Human rights and fundamental freedoms
10
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1
Humanitarian protection (including tolerated stay)
2
Hutus
2
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5
Immigration Detention
14
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4
Inclusion clauses
2
Independence of judiciary
9
Indigenous persons
1
Internal armed conflict
6
Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA)
61
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
2
International armed conflict
4
International criminal law
3
International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions
14
International protection
3
Involuntary repatriation
1
Jehovah's Witness
1
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2
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9
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2
Karen
2
Koreans
1
Kurd
5
Legal representation / Legal aid
11
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI)
43
Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims
2
Mental health
8
Military courts
1
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2
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription
47
Minorities
3
Minority rights
1
Mormon
2
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2
Muslim
5
National security / Public order
13
Naturalization
2
Non-refoulement
30
Non-state agents of persecution
61
Older persons
1
One-child policy / Family planning
1
Opposition
7
Oromo
1
Palestinian
6
Passports
2
Pentecostal
2
Persecution based on nationality
11
Persecution based on political opinion
145
Persecution of family members
13
Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity
32
Persons not in need of international protection
8
Persons with disabilities
5
Physical harm
1
Police
20
Political asylum
6
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3
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10
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
5
Pre-entry procedures
1
Pre-trial detention
3
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9
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2
Prosecution vs persecution
30
Public health
22
Punjabis
13
Racial / Ethnic persecution
36
Refoulement
32
Refugee / Asylum law
7
Refugee camps
1
Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures
18
Refugees
17
Refugees sur place
4
Rejected asylum-seekers
20
Religious discrimination
3
Religious persecution (including forced conversion)
55
Resettlement
2
Residence permits / Residency
13
Right to education
4
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5
Right to family life
10
Right to food
1
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2
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14
Right to liberty and security
23
Right to life
23
Right to return
2
Right to seek asylum
1
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1
Roma
13
Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness
61
Russians
2
Safe country of origin
2
Safe third country
30
Saharawis
1
Security forces
3
Security situation
3
Serb
1
Serious non-political crime
35
Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV)
23
Sexual and reproductive rights
2
Sharia law
1
Shia
4
Sikh
2
Single procedure
4
Smuggling of persons
7
Social group discrimination
8
Social group persecution
95
Standard of proof
20
State of emergency
1
State protection
118
Statelessness
7
Sur place persecution
10
Suspensive effect
2
Tamil
46
Terrorism
39
Threats / Intimidation
2
Tibetan
3
Torture
4
Trafficking in persons
5
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1
Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations
8
Tutsis
4
Unaccompanied / Separated children
15
Unlawful departure
5
Visas
9
Voluntary repatriation
1
War crimes
10
Well-founded fear of persecution
65
Withdrawal of nationality
1
Witnesses
6
Women's rights
3
Women-at-risk
21
1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
1
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