Australia

• Case Law 402

• Abduction 2
• Acts of persecution 1
• Administrative law 2
• Agents of persecution 3
• Ahmadis 5
• Appeal / Right to appeal 8
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 12
• Armed forces / Military 4
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 3
• Asylum-seekers 1
• Blood feuds 3
• Buddhist 2
• Catholic 4
• Cessation clauses 3
• Changes of circumstances in home country 6
• Children's rights 1
• Christian 20
• Citizenship / Nationality law 2
• Civil war 1
• Combatants / Former combatants 1
• Complementary forms of protection 2
• Confidentiality 1
• Constitutional law 1
• Copts 1
• Corruption 1
• Country of origin information (COI) 13
• Credibility assessment 34
• Crimes against humanity 5
• Criminal justice 15
• Deportation / Forcible return 2
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 25
• Domestic violence 1
• Economic, social and cultural rights 1
• Effective protection 10
• Effective remedy 3
• Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 69
• Exclusion clauses 4
• Expulsion 1
• Extradition 3
• False documents 1
• Falun Gong 11
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 1
• Flight by land, air or sea 1
• Forced labour 2
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 9
• Freedom of expression 6
• Freedom of speech 6
• Gang related violence 1
• Gender discrimination 1
• Grounds for persecution 5
• Habeas corpus 1
• Hazara 1
• Hindu 5
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 1
• Humanitarian protection (including tolerated stay) 1
• Immigration Detention 4
• Inclusion clauses 2
• Independence of judiciary 6
• Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 19
• International protection 1
• Jehovah's Witness 2
• Jurisdiction 4
• Kurd 3
• Legal representation / Legal aid 5
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 7
• Mental health 7
• Migrants 1
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 10
• Multiple nationality 1
• Muslim 4
• Non-refoulement 1
• Non-state agents of persecution 24
• One-child policy / Family planning 1
• Oromo 1
• Pashtun 1
• Passports 2
• Pentecostal 1
• Persecution based on nationality 1
• Persecution based on political opinion 77
• Persecution of family members 5
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 7
• Police 2
• Political groups 2
• Political parties 9
• Political situation 1
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 1
• Prison or detention conditions 1
• Proof of nationality 3
• Prosecution vs persecution 5
• Public health 1
• Punjabis 1
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 37
• Refoulement 1
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 2
• Rejected asylum-seekers 2
• Religious discrimination 1
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 61
• Resettlement 1
• Right to employment 1
• Right to family life 1
• Right to liberty and security 1
• Roma 1
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 48
• Safe country of origin 1
• Safe third country 9
• Security situation 1
• Serb 1
• Serious non-political crime 1
• Seventh Day Adventist 1
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 2
• Sexual and reproductive rights 1
• Shan 1
• Shia 3
• Sikh 3
• Sindhis 1
• Single heads of household 1
• Single procedure 1
• Sinhalese 2
• Social group discrimination 1
• Social group persecution 44
• Standard of proof 3
• State protection 7
• Statelessness 3
• Sur place persecution 8
• Tamil 3
• Temporary admission 5
• Temporary protection 7
• Torture 1
• Transgression of social / cultural norms 1
• Visas 49
• War crimes 4
• Well-founded fear of persecution 25
• Witnesses 8
• Women-at-risk 2

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