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• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 36
• Domestic violence 19
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• Economic, social and cultural rights 14
• Effective protection 5
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• Exhaustion of domestic remedies 1
• Extradition 4
• Extrajudicial executions 15
• False documents 2
• Family law 2
• Family reunification 1
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 3
• Forced labour 26
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• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 51
• Freedom of assembly and association 73
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• Freedom of speech 86
• Gender discrimination 28
• Gender mainstreaming 1
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• Refugees 57
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• Religious discrimination 32
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 34
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• Right to a nationality 10
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• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 20
• SGBV 48
• Safe country of origin 1
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• Sale of children 1
• Secondary movement 1
• Security forces 10
• Security situation 9
• Sexual and reproductive rights 3
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• Shia 4
• Sikh 19
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• Social group discrimination 13
• Social group persecution 11
• State of emergency 2
• State protection 15
• Stateless persons 11
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• Sunni 5
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• Temporary protection 2
• Terrorism 21
• Torture 4
• Trafficking in persons 55
• Transgression of social / cultural norms 2
• Travel documents 1
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• Uighur 6
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 3
• Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 7
• Urban refugees 2
• Visas 8
• Voluntary repatriation 2
• War crimes 1
• Women's rights 37
• Women-at-risk 21
• Work permits 7

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• AlertNet - Malaysia
• Amnesty International - Malaysia
• Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Malaysia
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) - Malaysia
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC regional delegation in Kuala Lumpur
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) - Malaysia
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Malaysia
• ReliefWeb - Malaysia
• UNHCR - Malaysia
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Malaysia
• United States Department of State - Malaysia
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Malaysia