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• Abduction 4
• Abuse of psychiatry 1
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• Africans 1
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• Albinism/Persons with Albinism 5
• Aliens 7
• Anglican 11
• Animist 7
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• Appeal / Right to appeal 2
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 35
• Armed attacks on camps 1
• Armed forces / Military 8
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 9
• Assemblies of God 2
• Asylum policy 4
• Asylum-migration nexus 7
• Asylum-seekers 86
• Baha'i 2
• Baptist 11
• Berber 1
• Border conflict 1
• Border controls 2
• Border crossers 1
• Buddhist 8
• Burden-sharing and international co-operation 1
• Camp management 1
• Catholic 11
• Cessation clauses 2
• Chechen 1
• Child labour 39
• Child prostitution 28
• Child soldiers 4
• Children's rights 72
• Children-at-risk 44
• Chinese 1
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• Citizenship / Nationality law 10
• Civil and political rights 6
• Civilian character of asylum 1
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 12
• Complementary forms of protection 2
• Confidentiality 1
• Conflict resolution 1
• Conflict situation 5
• Congregationalist 9
• Constitutional law 1
• Contemporary forms of slavery 1
• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 3
• Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 6
• Corruption 25
• Crime prevention 1
• Crimes against humanity 1
• Criminal justice 13
• Customary law 1
• Death in custody 5
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• Democracy 10
• Denial of nationality 1
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• Deportation / Forcible return 27
• Disappeared persons 18
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 66
• Domestic violence 14
• Drug trafficking 5
• Economic, social and cultural rights 20
• Effective protection 2
• Effective remedy 12
• Elections 26
• Entry / Exit 3
• Entry into force 1
• Equality before the law 2
• Ethiopians 1
• Ethnic cleansing 2
• Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 1
• Exiles 1
• Extradition 3
• Extrajudicial executions 30
• Extreme poverty 5
• False documents 1
• Family reunification 2
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 7
• Forced labour 40
• Forced marriage 12
• Forced sterilization / Abortion 1
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 43
• Freedom of assembly and association 48
• Freedom of conscience 2
• Freedom of expression 117
• Freedom of information 56
• Freedom of movement 22
• Freedom of religion 46
• Freedom of speech 32
• Gang related violence 2
• Gender discrimination 37
• Gender-based persecution 13
• Generalized violence 3
• Genocide 3
• Good governance 20
• Gujaratis 1
• HIV and AIDS 44
• Habitual residence 1
• Harmful traditional practices 3
• Hindu 12
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• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 23
• Human Rights Council 9
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• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 66
• Human rights monitors 4
• Humanitarian assistance 3
• IDP camps 5
• Illegal entry 2
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 16
• Immigrants 2
• Immigration Detention 5
• Impunity 26
• Independence of judiciary 11
• Indians 5
• Indigenous persons 14
• Integration 8
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 27
• International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) 3
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 3
• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) 2
• International armed conflict 3
• International courts and tribunals 21
• International criminal law 2
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 5
• International protection 7
• Involuntary repatriation 2
• Jew 12
• Jurisdiction 1
• Kurd 1
• Labour law 2
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 1
• Legal representation / Legal aid 3
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 61
• Livelihoods 5
• Location of camps 1
• Lutheran 11
• Mass exodus 2
• Maternal and child health care 7
• Medical screening 1
• Mental health 3
• Mentally disadvantaged persons 1
• Mercenaries 2
• Methodist 11
• Migrant rights 21
• Migrants 67
• Military law 1
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• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 8
• Minorities 30
• Minority rights 10
• Multiple nationality 2
• Muslim 13
• National security / Public order 1
• Naturalization 1
• Ndebele 1
• Non-refoulement 6
• Non-state agents of persecution 1
• Opposition 7
• Oromo 1
• Orthodox Christian 10
• Passports 5
• Peace agreements 2
• Peace process 2
• Peacekeeping 11
• Pentecostal 9
• Persecution based on nationality 16
• Persecution based on political opinion 12
• Persecution of family members 1
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 32
• Persons not in need of international protection 1
• Persons of concern to UNHCR 4
• Persons with disabilities 30
• Police 62
• Political groups 7
• Political parties 19
• Political situation 27
• Pre-entry procedures 2
• Pre-trial detention 9
• Presbyterian 11
• Prevention of discrimination 1
• Prison or detention conditions 27
• Prisoners of war 1
• Property restitution 1
• Prosecution vs persecution 1
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 14
• Protection of camps 1
• Protestant 7
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 18
• Public health 21
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 11
• Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 30
• Reception 1
• Refoulement 7
• Refugee / Asylum law 9
• Refugee camps 11
• Refugee identity documents 2
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 6
• Refugee travel documents / CTDs 3
• Refugees 125
• Regional instruments 2
• Registration 2
• Reintegration 2
• Rejected asylum-seekers 3
• Religious discrimination 21
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 11
• Resettlement 3
• Residence permits / Residency 15
• Return conditions 1
• Returnees 8
• Right to a nationality 8
• Right to development 1
• Right to education 26
• Right to employment 22
• Right to family life 2
• Right to food 4
• Right to health 20
• Right to justice 8
• Right to leave 1
• Right to liberty and security 1
• Right to life 5
• Right to registration at birth 7
• Right to return 5
• Right to seek asylum 6
• Right to self-determination 4
• Rights of non-citizens 10
• Roma 2
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 22
• Rwandans 1
• Sale of children 2
• San Bushmen 4
• Scientologist 8
• Security forces 23
• Security situation 30
• Seventh Day Adventist 10
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 83
• Sexual and reproductive rights 6
• Sharia law 1
• Small arms 1
• Smuggling of persons 1
• Social group discrimination 28
• Social group persecution 2
• Somalis 7
• State protection 24
• Statelessness 22
• Statelessness Determination Procedures 10
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 9
• Tamil 2
• Temporary admission 1
• Temporary protection 4
• Terrorism 30
• Threats / Intimidation 7
• Torture 19
• Trafficking in persons 77
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• Travel documents 10
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• UNHCR mandate 1
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 3
• Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 12
• Urban refugees 6
• Visas 5
• Voluntary repatriation 5
• War crimes 5
• Well-founded fear of persecution 1
• Witchcraft 1
• Witnesses 4
• Women's rights 73
• Women-at-risk 29
• Work permits 6
• Xhosa 3
• Zulus 12

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• Amnesty International - South Africa
• Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa (CoRMSA)
• Council of Europe, Venice Commission: Constitutional Courts (Links)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - South Africa
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) - South Africa
• Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) - South Africa
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC regional delegation in Pretoria
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) - South Africa
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - South Africa
• ReliefWeb - South Africa
• UNHCR - South Africa
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - South Africa
• United States Department of State - South Africa
• World Health Organization (WHO) - South Africa