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• Abduction 134
• Abuse of psychiatry 2
• Access to water 8
• Africans 3
• Ahmadis 26
• Airports 3
• Alawi 2
• Albanians 6
• Anti-terrorism law 22
• Appeal / Right to appeal 2
• Arabs 2
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 66
• Armed attacks on camps 14
• Armed forces / Military 275
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 658
• Asylum policy 1
• Asylum-migration nexus 4
• Asylum-seekers 50
• Bail 7
• Baluchis 41
• Bedoon 2
• Bengalis 1
• Border conflict 148
• Border controls 11
• Border crossers 6
• Buddhist 18
• Burden-sharing and international co-operation 2
• Camp management 2
• Ceasefire 100
• Chechen 14
• Child labour 9
• Child prostitution 2
• Child soldiers 11
• Children's rights 49
• Children-at-risk 65
• Christian 122
• Civil and political rights 7
• Civil war 25
• Climate change (including environmental migrants) 3
• Combatants / Former combatants 10
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 89
• Conflict prevention 2
• Conflict resolution 19
• Conflict situation 49
• Contemporary forms of slavery 4
• Convention against Torture (CAT) 1
• Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 1
• Copts 2
• Corruption 55
• Country of origin information (COI) 3
• Coup d'état 19
• Crimean Tatars 2
• Crimes against humanity 8
• Crimes against peace 1
• Criminal justice 19
• Death in custody 2
• Death penalty 180
• Demobilization / Disarmament 3
• Democracy 8
• Deportation / Forcible return 44
• Disappeared persons 41
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 30
• Domestic violence 13
• Drug trafficking 7
• Druze 4
• Economic, social and cultural rights 4
• Effective protection 1
• Effective remedy 10
• Election law 2
• Elections 217
• Embargo 1
• Emergency legislation 1
• Entry / Exit 2
• Ethiopians 4
• Evacuation 6
• Exiles 5
• Expulsion 4
• Extradition 3
• Extrajudicial executions 66
• Extreme poverty 5
• False documents 2
• Falun Gong 2
• Family reunification 2
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 10
• Flight by land, air or sea 5
• Forced labour 4
• Forced marriage 24
• Forced relocation 1
• Forced sterilization / Abortion 1
• Foreign occupation 11
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 36
• Freedom of assembly and association 96
• Freedom of conscience 5
• Freedom of expression 423
• Freedom of information 245
• Freedom of movement 17
• Freedom of religion 97
• Freedom of speech 196
• Fulani 9
• Gang related violence 4
• Gender discrimination 9
• Gender-based persecution 6
• Generalized violence 11
• Genocide 3
• Good governance 28
• Good offices 1
• Gross, systematic and large-scale 1
• HIV and AIDS 7
• Han 1
• Harmful traditional practices 8
• Hazara 10
• Hindu 19
• Honour killings 46
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 14
• Human Rights Council 2
• Human rights activists 83
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 44
• Human rights monitors 10
• Humanitarian assistance 71
• Humanitarian protection (including tolerated stay) 1
• IDP camps 24
• Illegal entry 3
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 7
• Immigrants 3
• Immigration Detention 2
• Immigration law 1
• Impunity 30
• Independence of judiciary 18
• Indigenous persons 4
• Integration 2
• Internal armed conflict 158
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 176
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 1
• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) 1
• International armed conflict 10
• International courts and tribunals 9
• International criminal law 2
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 2
• International protection 1
• Involuntary repatriation 4
• Jehovah's Witness 4
• Jew 2
• Juvenile justice system 9
• Kachin 6
• Kashmiris 41
• Kurd 56
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 14
• Laws relating to religion 2
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 73
• Livelihoods 1
• Maronite 2
• Maternal and child health care 6
• Mental health 4
• Mentally disadvantaged persons 8
• Methodist 1
• Migrant rights 5
• Migrants 38
• Military courts 8
• Military law 4
• Military operations 298
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 11
• Minorities 38
• Minority rights 5
• Muslim 157
• National security / Public order 11
• Nepalis 2
• Non-refoulement 4
• Non-state agents of persecution 7
• Older persons 2
• One-child policy / Family planning 4
• Opposition 91
• Orderly return 1
• Palestinian 52
• Pashtun 16
• Passports 2
• Peace agreements 51
• Peace process 74
• Peacekeeping 29
• Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 18
• Persecution based on political opinion 70
• Persecution of family members 3
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 44
• Persons of concern to UNHCR 1
• Persons with disabilities 12
• Police 130
• Political groups 7
• Political parties 73
• Political situation 224
• Polygamy 3
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 1
• Pre-trial detention 4
• Prison or detention conditions 10
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 1
• Protection of camps 1
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 45
• Protestant 1
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 185
• Public health 59
• Punjabis 2
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 3
• Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 1
• Ratification 1
• Reception 7
• Reconciliation 3
• Referendum 21
• Refoulement 1
• Refugee / Asylum law 2
• Refugee camps 24
• Refugee identity documents 3
• Refugee seamen 3
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 1
• Refugees 202
• Registration 10
• Reintegration 4
• Rejection at border 1
• Religious discrimination 44
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 72
• Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 1
• Resettlement 1
• Residence permits / Residency 2
• Return conditions 30
• Returnees 42
• Right to a nationality 2
• Right to education 47
• Right to employment 2
• Right to family life 1
• Right to food 9
• Right to health 22
• Right to justice 12
• Right to leave 2
• Right to life 6
• Right to seek asylum 3
• Right to self-determination 7
• Rohingya (Arakanese) 18
• Roma 6
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 28
• Safe country of origin 6
• Salafi 10
• Sale of children 3
• Sanctions 16
• Secondary movement 2
• Security forces 120
• Security situation 430
• Serb 2
• Serious non-political crime 1
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 56
• Sexual and reproductive rights 3
• Shan 2
• Sharia law 8
• Shia 114
• Sikh 6
• Sindhis 3
• Small arms 1
• Smuggling of persons 4
• Social group discrimination 2
• Social group persecution 3
• Somalis 2
• Spontaneous return 1
• State of emergency 32
• State protection 2
• Statelessness 1
• Sufi 22
• Sunni 55
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 1
• Tajik 2
• Tamil 11
• Tatars 2
• Terrorism 601
• Threats / Intimidation 11
• Tibetan 13
• Tiv 2
• Torture 10
• Trafficking in persons 23
• Transit 2
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 2
• Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 2
• Tuareg 5
• Turkmen 3
• Uighur 53
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 4
• Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1
• Urban refugees 1
• Visas 5
• Voluntary repatriation 24
• War crimes 31
• Witchcraft 2
• Witnesses 3
• Women's rights 96
• Women-at-risk 25
• Yazīdī 6

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• Amnesty International - Pakistan
• Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)
• Associated Press of Pakistan
• BBC News - Special Report: Kashmir Flashpoint
• BBC Urdu
• Dawn
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Pakistan
• Government of Pakistan: Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
• Human Rights Commission of Pakistan
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) - Pakistan
• Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) - Pakistan
• Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) - Pakistan
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC in Pakistan
• International Crisis Group (ICG) - Kashmir
• International Crisis Group (ICG) - Pakistan
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) - Pakistan
• Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement for the Propagation of Islam
• National Accountability Bureau, Islamic Republic of Pakistan
• New York Times - Pakistan News
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Pakistan
• Pakistan International Human Rights Organization (PIHRO)
• Pakistan Observer Online
• Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF)
• Pakistaniat.com - All Things Pakistan
• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) - Pakistan
• ReliefWeb - Pakistan
• The Frontier Post
• Time Magazine - Asia Edition
• UNHCR - Pakistan
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Pakistan
• United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP)
• United States Department of State - Pakistan
• United States Department of State: Congressional Research Service Reports (CRS) and Issue Briefs
• Women's Learning Partnership - Claiming Equal Citizenship
• World Food Programme (WFP) - Pakistan
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Pakistan