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• Amnesty International 177
• Article 19 20
• Asylum Aid 23
• Committee to Protect Journalists 81
• EurasiaNet 33
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• World Organisation Against Torture 20

• Abduction 8
• Access to procedures 3
• Access to water 4
• Ahwazi 5
• Anti-terrorism law 2
• Appeal / Right to appeal 1
• Arabs 16
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 135
• Armed attacks on camps 5
• Armed forces / Military 20
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 32
• Armenian 1
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• Asylum-migration nexus 1
• Asylum-seekers 38
• Azeri 13
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• Children's rights 17
• Children-at-risk 12
• Christian 8
• Civil and political rights 6
• Civil war 1
• Combatants / Former combatants 2
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 20
• Conflict resolution 1
• Conflict situation 4
• Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 1
• Corruption 3
• Coup d'état 1
• Crimes against humanity 1
• Criminal justice 166
• Death in custody 30
• Death penalty 225
• Demobilization / Disarmament 1
• Deportation / Forcible return 16
• Disabled persons 1
• Disappeared persons 11
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 8
• Domestic violence 5
• Drug trafficking 13
• Economic, social and cultural rights 1
• Effective remedy 2
• Election law 2
• Elections 84
• Embargo 2
• Emigrants 1
• Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 1
• Exiles 21
• Expulsion 4
• Extradition 3
• Extrajudicial executions 14
• False documents 1
• Family law 1
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 6
• Forced labour 1
• Forced marriage 1
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 64
• Freedom of assembly and association 72
• Freedom of conscience 18
• Freedom of expression 557
• Freedom of information 350
• Freedom of movement 8
• Freedom of religion 41
• Freedom of speech 327
• Gender discrimination 10
• Gender-based persecution 2
• Good governance 13
• Gross, systematic and large-scale 1
• HIV and AIDS 4
• Harmful traditional practices 5
• Honour killings 5
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 1
• Human Rights Council 4
• Human rights activists 159
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 49
• Human rights monitors 29
• Humanitarian assistance 2
• Illegal entry 2
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 2
• Immigration Detention 9
• Immunity 1
• Impunity 5
• Independence of judiciary 4
• Integration 1
• Internal armed conflict 6
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 2
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 1
• International armed conflict 5
• International courts and tribunals 1
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 1
• Involuntary repatriation 1
• Iranians 9
• Jew 4
• Juvenile justice system 24
• Kurd 55
• Labour law 1
• Legal representation / Legal aid 4
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 12
• Livelihoods 1
• Memoranda of understanding (MOU) 2
• Migrant rights 2
• Migrants 3
• Military operations 26
• Minorities 34
• Minority rights 7
• Muslim 21
• National security / Public order 1
• Opposition 157
• Palestinian 1
• Peace process 4
• Peacekeeping 3
• Pentecostal 1
• Persecution based on political opinion 39
• Persecution of family members 13
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 3
• Piracy 1
• Police 9
• Political groups 23
• Political parties 29
• Political situation 89
• Polygamy 5
• Population transfers 2
• Pre-trial detention 2
• Prison or detention conditions 60
• Prosecution vs persecution 3
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 1
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 3
• Public health 6
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 4
• Reconciliation 1
• Referendum 2
• Refoulement 3
• Refugee camps 15
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 2
• Refugees 45
• Registration 2
• Reintegration 1
• Religious discrimination 16
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 22
• Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 1
• Resettlement 3
• Return conditions 2
• Returnees 6
• Right to education 9
• Right to employment 8
• Right to family life 1
• Right to food 1
• Right to health 1
• Right to justice 4
• Right to seek asylum 1
• Roma 1
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 16
• SGBV 23
• Sabean Mandean 1
• Sanctions 27
• Security forces 36
• Security situation 56
• Sexual and reproductive rights 3
• Sharia law 3
• Shia 12
• State protection 1
• Sufi 8
• Sunni 13
• Tajik 1
• Talysh 1
• Tamil 1
• Terrorism 25
• Tibetan 2
• Torture 12
• Trafficking in persons 9
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 1
• Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 1
• Tuareg 1
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 1
• Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1
• Visas 1
• Voluntary repatriation 4
• War crimes 1
• Women's rights 66
• Women-at-risk 3
• Zoroastrian 3

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• AlertNet - Iran
• American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Iran Tracker
• American Kurdish Information Network
• Amnesty International - Iran
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Iran (Islamic Rep of)
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) - Iran
• Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) - Iran
• International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC in Iran
• International Crisis Group (ICG) - Iran
• Iran Human Rights Voice
• Iranian and Kurdish Women's Rights Organisation
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) - Islamic Republic of Iran
• Kurdish Media
• Kurdish Women's Action Against Honour Killing
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Iran (Islamic Republic of)
• Persian2English
• RAHANA - Reporters and Human Rights Activists of Iran
• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) - Iran
• ReliefWeb - Iran (Islamic Republic of)
• The Green Voice of Freedom
• The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
• UNHCR - Islamic Republic of Iran
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Iran, Islamic Republic of
• United States Department of State - Iran
• United States Department of State: Congressional Research Service Reports (CRS) and Issue Briefs
• Women's Learning Partnership - Claiming Equal Citizenship
• World Food Programme (WFP) - Iran
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Iran (Islamic Republic of)