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• Case Law 127

• Abduction 2
• Acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations 1
• Agents of persecution 1
• Ahmadis 2
• Appeal / Right to appeal 8
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 16
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 1
• Asylum policy 4
• Bajuni 2
• Beja 1
• Catholic 1
• Cessation clauses 1
• Changes of circumstances in home country 5
• Children's rights 4
• Christian 5
• Combatants / Former combatants 1
• Complementary forms of protection 10
• Country of origin information (COI) 20
• Credibility assessment 32
• Criminal justice 5
• Death penalty 1
• Deportation / Forcible return 32
• Derivative status 1
• Diplomatic asylum 1
• Disabled persons 1
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 1
• Domestic violence 1
• Drug trafficking 2
• EU Qualification Directive 1
• Effective protection 8
• Effective remedy 1
• Elections 1
• Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 34
• Exceptional leave to remain (ELR) 1
• Exclusion clauses 1
• Exhaustion of domestic remedies 1
• Expulsion 1
• False documents 1
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 3
• Forced marriage 2
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 19
• Fresh / New claim 24
• Gender-based persecution 2
• Grounds for persecution 2
• HIV and AIDS 1
• Honour killings 2
• Hutus 2
• IDP camps 1
• Illegal entry 1
• Illegitimate children 1
• Immigration Detention 6
• Independence of judiciary 1
• Internal armed conflict 1
• Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 21
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 1
• Kurd 8
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 2
• Mandate status 1
• Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims 9
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 5
• Non-state agents of persecution 17
• Nuba 2
• Orthodox Christian 1
• Palestinian 1
• Pashtun 1
• Passports 1
• Persecution based on political opinion 52
• Persecution of family members 13
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 2
• Political groups 2
• Political parties 6
• Political situation 1
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 3
• Pre-entry procedures 1
• Proof of nationality 2
• Prosecution vs persecution 3
• Public health 6
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 8
• Refugee camps 1
• Refugees 3
• Rejected asylum-seekers 14
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 12
• Residence permits / Residency 1
• Returnees 1
• Right to family life 28
• Right to justice 1
• Right to liberty and security 5
• Right to life 1
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 1
• Russians 1
• SGBV 3
• Safe country of origin 1
• Safe third country 2
• Security situation 2
• Serious non-political crime 1
• Shia 2
• Sikh 1
• Single heads of household 2
• Single procedure 2
• Smuggling of persons 1
• Social group persecution 13
• Standard of proof 2
• State protection 6
• Sunni 3
• Sur place persecution 1
• Tajik 2
• Terrorism 1
• Trafficking in persons 1
• Transgression of social / cultural norms 4
• UNHCR mandate 1
• Unlawful departure 1
• Voluntary repatriation 1
• Well-founded fear of persecution 2
• Women-at-risk 4

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