Western Sahara Territory

• Annual Reports 141
• Country News 77
• Country Operations Plans 1
• Country Reports 70
• Mission Reports 1
• Query Responses 14
• Regional Reports 2
• Research, Background and Discussion Papers 1
• Speeches/Statements 4

• Abduction 2
• Access to procedures 3
• Airports 1
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 33
• Armed attacks on camps 2
• Armed forces / Military 5
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 20
• Asylum-migration nexus 1
• Asylum-seekers 10
• Baha'i 1
• Basques 1
• Berber 2
• Border conflict 2
• Border controls 2
• Capacity building of state institutions 1
• Catholic 8
• Ceasefire 9
• Child labour 21
• Child soldiers 2
• Children's rights 33
• Children-at-risk 14
• Christian 5
• Civil and political rights 2
• Civil war 2
• Conflict resolution 8
• Conflict situation 3
• Contemporary forms of slavery 2
• Corruption 8
• Crimean Tatars 2
• Criminal justice 18
• Death in custody 1
• Death penalty 10
• Democracy 4
• Deportation / Forcible return 3
• Diplomatic assurances 1
• Disappeared persons 23
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 16
• Drug trafficking 1
• Economic, social and cultural rights 14
• Effective protection 1
• Effective remedy 2
• Elections 13
• Emigrants 1
• Expulsion 4
• Extrajudicial executions 14
• Extreme poverty 1
• Family reunification 8
• Forced labour 16
• Forced marriage 3
• Foreign occupation 1
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 36
• Freedom of assembly and association 53
• Freedom of expression 66
• Freedom of information 17
• Freedom of movement 28
• Freedom of religion 44
• Freedom of speech 28
• Gang related violence 2
• Gender discrimination 22
• Gender-based persecution 2
• Good governance 2
• HIV and AIDS 1
• Honour killings 1
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 3
• Human rights activists 17
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 38
• Human rights courts 1
• Human rights law 1
• Human rights monitors 14
• Humanitarian assistance 4
• IDP camps 1
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 3
• Immigration Detention 5
• Impunity 14
• Independence of judiciary 6
• Indigenous persons 1
• Internal armed conflict 3
• Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 1
• International armed conflict 1
• International courts and tribunals 3
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 2
• International protection 2
• Jew 2
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 4
• Legal representation / Legal aid 1
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 15
• Location of camps 1
• Migrant rights 5
• Migrants 18
• Military courts 3
• Military operations 4
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 5
• Minorities 9
• Minority rights 2
• Muslim 15
• National security / Public order 1
• Nomads 1
• Non-refoulement 1
• Non-self-governing territories 6
• Opposition 7
• Palestinian 4
• Peace agreements 3
• Peace process 15
• Peacekeeping 19
• Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 2
• Persecution based on nationality 2
• Persecution based on political opinion 13
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 7
• Persons of concern to UNHCR 1
• Persons with disabilities 6
• Police 20
• Political parties 3
• Political situation 15
• Polygamy 2
• Pre-trial detention 6
• Prison or detention conditions 12
• Protestant 2
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 13
• Public health 3
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 1
• Reconciliation 1
• Referendum 12
• Refugee camps 36
• Refugee identity documents 4
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 2
• Refugee travel documents / CTDs 1
• Refugees 50
• Rejected asylum-seekers 1
• Religious discrimination 20
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 9
• Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 4
• Right to a nationality 2
• Right to education 4
• Right to employment 3
• Right to family life 7
• Right to food 3
• Right to health 1
• Right to justice 1
• Right to self-determination 32
• Rights of non-citizens 2
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 17
• Safe country of origin 2
• Saharawis 75
• Secondary movement 1
• Security forces 12
• Security situation 18
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 19
• Sexual and reproductive rights 1
• Shia 3
• Social group discrimination 13
• Sunni 10
• Tatars 2
• Terrorism 23
• Threats / Intimidation 1
• Torture 24
• Trafficking in persons 17
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 11
• Travel documents 1
• Tuareg 1
• Uighur 3
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 1
• Visas 1
• Voluntary repatriation 1
• War crimes 1
• Women's rights 30
• Women-at-risk 14
• 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)