Western Sahara Territory

• Amnesty International 19
• Child Soldiers International 2
• Freedom House 25
• Human Rights Watch 13
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 5
• International Federation for Human Rights 2
• Minority Rights Group International 6
• United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants 11
• United States Department of Labor 16
• United States Department of State 42

• Access to procedures 3
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 25
• Armed attacks on camps 1
• Armed forces / Military 1
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 10
• Asylum-seekers 8
• Baha'i 1
• Basques 1
• Berber 2
• Border controls 2
• Capacity building of state institutions 1
• Catholic 8
• Child labour 21
• Child soldiers 2
• Children's rights 32
• Children-at-risk 13
• Christian 4
• Civil and political rights 1
• Conflict resolution 2
• Contemporary forms of slavery 2
• Corruption 7
• Criminal justice 11
• Death penalty 8
• Democracy 3
• Deportation / Forcible return 3
• Disappeared persons 19
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 15
• Economic, social and cultural rights 14
• Effective protection 1
• Effective remedy 1
• Elections 7
• Emigrants 1
• Expulsion 4
• Extrajudicial executions 14
• Extreme poverty 1
• Family reunification 3
• Forced labour 16
• Foreign occupation 1
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 25
• Freedom of assembly and association 40
• Freedom of expression 48
• Freedom of information 4
• Freedom of movement 24
• Freedom of religion 42
• Freedom of speech 21
• Gender discrimination 21
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 3
• Human rights activists 11
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 26
• Human rights courts 1
• Human rights monitors 6
• Humanitarian assistance 1
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 1
• Immigration Detention 5
• Impunity 9
• Independence of judiciary 3
• Indigenous persons 1
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 2
• International protection 2
• Jew 2
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 1
• Legal representation / Legal aid 1
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 8
• Migrant rights 5
• Migrants 17
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 3
• Minorities 9
• Minority rights 2
• Muslim 10
• National security / Public order 1
• Non-self-governing territories 2
• Opposition 4
• Palestinian 1
• Peace process 7
• Peacekeeping 2
• Persecution based on nationality 1
• Persecution based on political opinion 5
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 1
• Persons with disabilities 6
• Police 15
• Political parties 1
• Pre-trial detention 4
• Prison or detention conditions 9
• Protestant 2
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 4
• Public health 2
• Reconciliation 1
• Referendum 6
• Refugee camps 15
• Refugee identity documents 4
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 2
• Refugee travel documents / CTDs 1
• Refugees 22
• Religious discrimination 16
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 9
• Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 4
• Right to education 4
• Right to employment 3
• Right to family life 1
• Right to food 2
• Right to health 1
• Right to justice 1
• Right to self-determination 11
• Rights of non-citizens 1
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 11
• Saharawis 40
• Security forces 6
• Security situation 2
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 17
• Shia 1
• Social group discrimination 13
• Sunni 10
• Terrorism 14
• Threats / Intimidation 1
• Torture 18
• Trafficking in persons 16
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 8
• Travel documents 1
• Tuareg 1
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 1
• Voluntary repatriation 1
• Women's rights 27
• Women-at-risk 13
• Work permits 3

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• Amnesty International - Morocco/Western Sahara
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) - Morocco
• Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) - Western Sahara
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC regional delegation in Tunis
• International Crisis Group (ICG) - Western Sahara
• ReliefWeb - Western Sahara
• UNHCR - Western Sahara territory
• United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO)