Switzerland

• Council of Europe 1
• Council of Europe: European Commission on Human Rights 4
• Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights 35
• Switzerland: Commission suisse de recours en matière d'asile 7
• Switzerland: Federal Court 64
• Switzerland: Tribunal administratif fédéral 56
• UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) 49
• UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 2
• UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) 1
• United Kingdom: Court of Appeal (England and Wales) 1

• Access to procedures 1
• Acts of persecution 2
• Agents of persecution 1
• Appeal / Right to appeal 4
• Arabs 1
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 2
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 1
• Asylum-seekers 7
• Blood feuds 1
• Border controls 1
• Burden-sharing and international co-operation 4
• COVID-19 1
• Cessation clauses 1
• Children's rights 5
• Children-at-risk 1
• Civil and political rights 1
• Convention against Torture (CAT) 5
• Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 1
• Country of origin information (COI) 2
• Credibility assessment 5
• Crime prevention 1
• Criminal justice 9
• Decision on admissibility 5
• Denial of refugee status 3
• Deportation / Forcible return 59
• Derivative status 1
• Effective remedy 4
• Entry / Exit 2
• Eritreans 2
• Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 12
• Exclusion clauses 3
• Exhaustion of domestic remedies 5
• Expulsion 47
• Extradition 4
• Family law 1
• Family reunification 22
• Flight by land, air or sea 1
• Forced labour 5
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 29
• Freedom of movement 5
• Freedom of religion 2
• Gender-based persecution 1
• Habeas corpus 1
• Habitual residence 1
• Hazara 2
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 1
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 2
• Illegal entry 2
• Immigration Detention 4
• Immigration law 4
• Indigenous persons 1
• Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 1
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 1
• Involuntary repatriation 1
• Kosovar 1
• Kurd 3
• Legal representation / Legal aid 3
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 1
• Mental health 2
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 8
• Minorities 2
• National security / Public order 1
• Non-refoulement 40
• Non-state agents of persecution 1
• Oromo 1
• Orthodox Christian 1
• Palestinian 2
• Passports 3
• Persecution based on political opinion 6
• Persecution of family members 2
• Physical harm 1
• Police 1
• Political asylum 1
• Political parties 1
• Political situation 1
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 3
• Prison or detention conditions 4
• Reception 2
• Refoulement 42
• Refugee / Asylum law 11
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 9
• Refugees 4
• Regional instruments 10
• Rejected asylum-seekers 23
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 4
• Residence permits / Residency 11
• Return conditions 1
• Right to a nationality 1
• Right to family life 27
• Right to health 3
• Right to justice 2
• Right to liberty and security 1
• Right to life 2
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 2
• Safe third country 6
• Security situation 3
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 2
• Sikh 1
• Somalis 1
• Standard of proof 1
• Statelessness 7
• Statelessness Determination Procedures 3
• Tamil 1
• Temporary admission 2
• Temporary protection 1
• Terrorism 2
• Tibetan 2
• Torture 1
• Trafficking in persons 1
• Travel documents 2
• UNRWA 2
• Visas 1
• Voluntary repatriation 2
• Women-at-risk 1
• Work permits 2
• Yazīdī 2

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• Amnesty International - Switzerland
• Bundesverwaltungsgericht (Tribunal administratif fédéral)
• Council of Europe, Venice Commission: Constitutional Courts (Links)
• Federal Office for Migration of Switzerland: Protection from persecution/Asylum
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Switzerland
• International Committee of the Red Cross - ICRC headquarters, Geneva
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) - Switzerland
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Switzerland
• ReliefWeb - Switzerland
• Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies (SFM)
• Swiss Refugee Council (SRC)
• Switzerland: State Secretariat for Migration (SEM)
• UNHCR - Switzerland
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Switzerland
• United States Department of State - Switzerland
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Switzerland
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