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• Abduction 160
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• Disappeared persons 90
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 28
• Domestic violence 15
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• Effective protection 2
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• Extrajudicial executions 113
• Extreme poverty 13
• Falun Gong 2
• Family reunification 10
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 8
• Flight by land, air or sea 27
• Forced labour 3
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• Forced relocation 1
• Foreign occupation 16
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 131
• Freedom of assembly and association 194
• Freedom of conscience 10
• Freedom of expression 578
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• Freedom of movement 44
• Freedom of religion 52
• Freedom of speech 322
• Fulani 9
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• Gender discrimination 11
• Gender mainstreaming 1
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• Generalized violence 8
• Genocide 11
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• Good governance 103
• Good offices 4
• Gross, systematic and large-scale 3
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• Hindu 12
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• Human rights courts 1
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• Impunity 46
• Independence of judiciary 5
• Indigenous persons 4
• Integration 14
• Internal armed conflict 777
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 272
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• International protection 9
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• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 77
• Livelihoods 23
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• Migrants 189
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• Non-refoulement 4
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• Nuer 2
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• One-child policy / Family planning 4
• Opposition 364
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• Passports 8
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• Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 39
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• Piracy 1
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• Political groups 20
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• Political situation 512
• Polygamy 3
• Pre-trial detention 8
• Prison or detention conditions 51
• Prisoners of war 1
• Prosecution vs persecution 3
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 3
• Protection of camps 2
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 483
• Protestant 1
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• Public health 40
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• Reception 41
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• Refoulement 2
• Refugee / Asylum law 4
• Refugee camps 169
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• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 3
• Refugees 990
• Registration 28
• Reintegration 1
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• Rejection at border 25
• Religious discrimination 35
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 56
• Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 7
• Resettlement 58
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• Return conditions 13
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• Right to employment 4
• Right to family life 2
• Right to food 42
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• Right to justice 20
• Right to leave 7
• Right to liberty and security 1
• Right to life 8
• Right to registration at birth 4
• Right to seek asylum 20
• Right to self-determination 8
• Rohingya (Arakanese) 15
• Roma 6
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 71
• Sabean Mandean 1
• Safe country of origin 14
• Safe third country 3
• Salafi 19
• Sanctions 38
• Secondary movement 16
• Security forces 274
• Security situation 868
• Serb 1
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 50
• Sexual and reproductive rights 5
• Shabak 2
• Shan 2
• Sharia law 6
• Shia 94
• Sindhis 1
• Small arms 8
• Smuggling of persons 16
• Social group discrimination 6
• Social group persecution 3
• Somalis 2
• Spontaneous return 1
• State of emergency 40
• State protection 1
• Statelessness 5
• Sufi 4
• Sunni 57
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 5
• Tajik 2
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• Tatars 2
• Temporary admission 1
• Temporary protection 4
• Terrorism 607
• Threats / Intimidation 2
• Tibetan 23
• Tiv 2
• Torture 35
• Trafficking in persons 21
• Transgression of social / cultural norms 2
• Transit 7
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 6
• Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 3
• Tuareg 8
• Turkmen 8
• Uighur 57
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 17
• Urban refugees 8
• Uzbek 1
• Visas 19
• Voluntary repatriation 15
• War crimes 153
• Widowed persons 1
• Witchcraft 3
• Women's rights 61
• Women-at-risk 59
• Work permits 5
• Yazīdī 29

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• Amnesty International - Syria
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Syrian Arab Rep
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) - Syria
• Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) - Syria
• Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) - Syria
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC in Syria
• International Crisis Group (ICG) - Syria
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Syrian Arab Republic
• ReliefWeb - Syrian Arab Republic (the)
• Syrian Human Rights Committee (SHRC)
• UNHCR - Syrian Arab Republic
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Syrian Arab Republic
• United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF)
• United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO)
• United States Department of State - Syria
• Women's Learning Partnership - Claiming Equal Citizenship
• World Food Programme (WFP) - Syria
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Syrian Arab Republic