Islamic Republic of Iran

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• Austrian Centre for Country of Origin and Asylum Research and Documentation (ACCORD) 2
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• Country of Origin Research and Information (CORI) 2
• Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre 24
• United States Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services 3

• Access to procedures 1
• Adoption 1
• Ahmadis 1
• Ahwazi 4
• Airports 9
• Aliens 1
• Arabs 1
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 2
• Armed forces / Military 4
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 42
• Armenian 12
• Arrival 1
• Asylum-seekers 3
• Azeri 9
• Baha'i 8
• Bail 7
• Bakhtiari 1
• Baluchis 8
• Baptist 3
• Border controls 6
• Border crossers 5
• Buddhist 1
• Catholic 2
• Christian 4
• Citizenship law 1
• Civilian character of asylum 1
• Convention refugee 2
• Coup d'état 2
• Crimes against humanity 1
• Criminal justice 51
• Death penalty 6
• Denial of refugee status 2
• Deportation / Forcible return 14
• Disabled persons 6
• Disappeared persons 1
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 4
• Domestic violence 3
• Drug trafficking 4
• Economic, social and cultural rights 1
• Elderly 3
• Elections 5
• Entry / Exit 1
• Equality before the law 1
• Evangelical 1
• Exiles 5
• Expulsion 8
• Extradition 2
• False documents 2
• Family reunification 1
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 1
• Filipinos 1
• Flight by land, air or sea 1
• Forced marriage 1
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 2
• Freedom of assembly and association 10
• Freedom of conscience 2
• Freedom of expression 17
• Freedom of information 4
• Freedom of movement 13
• Freedom of religion 32
• Freedom of speech 4
• Gender discrimination 2
• Gender-based persecution 2
• Good governance 1
• Harmful traditional practices 4
• Hijacking 3
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 5
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 25
• Human rights monitors 1
• Illegal entry 4
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 2
• Immigrants 1
• Immigration Detention 5
• International armed conflict 1
• Iranians 21
• Japanese 1
• Jew 9
• Kurd 56
• Laws relating to religion 2
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 3
• Mandate status 1
• Mentally disadvantaged persons 1
• Migrants 1
• Military courts 7
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 70
• Minorities 10
• Mormon 1
• Muslim 23
• Naturalization 4
• Non-refoulement 3
• Opposition 23
• Passports 3
• Persecution based on political opinion 21
• Persecution of family members 9
• Police 1
• Political asylum 7
• Political groups 13
• Political parties 11
• Political situation 5
• Prevention of discrimination 1
• Prison or detention conditions 8
• Prosecution vs persecution 2
• Public health 2
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 4
• Refoulement 4
• Refugee camps 2
• Refugee identity documents 1
• Refugees 4
• Rejected asylum-seekers 3
• Religious discrimination 4
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 15
• Resettlement 1
• Residence permits / Residency 10
• Return conditions 1
• Returnees 11
• Right to a nationality 15
• Right to education 4
• Right to employment 3
• Right to leave 7
• Right to life 1
• Right to return 4
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 2
• SGBV 11
• Sabean Mandean 1
• Sabians 1
• Security forces 9
• Security situation 4
• Sharia law 1
• Shia 2
• Single heads of household 2
• Smuggling of persons 3
• State protection 1
• Sufi 1
• Sunni 4
• Temporary admission 1
• Terrorism 15
• Unlawful departure 6
• Visas 39
• Voluntary repatriation 4
• Widowed persons 1
• Witnesses 2
• Women's rights 6
• Women-at-risk 4
• Work permits 6
• Zoroastrian 21

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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)