South Africa

• Annual Reports 203
• Chronologies of Events 5
• Commentaries 1
• Compilations 1
• Concluding Observations 5
• Country Briefing Folders 2
• Country News 190
• Country Operations Plans 3
• Country Profiles 1
• Country Reports 87
• Mission Reports 6
• Query Responses 154
• Regional Reports 1
• States Parties Reports 4
• Thematic Reports 7

• 1969 OAU Convention 1
• Abduction 3
• Abuse of psychiatry 1
• Access to procedures 3
• Access to water 1
• Africans 1
• Airports 1
• Aliens 7
• Anglican 8
• Animist 4
• Apartheid 12
• Appeal / Right to appeal 1
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 30
• Armed attacks on camps 1
• Armed forces / Military 6
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 8
• Assemblies of God 2
• Asylum policy 2
• Asylum-migration nexus 5
• Asylum-seekers 60
• Baha'i 2
• Baptist 8
• Berber 1
• Border conflict 1
• Border controls 2
• Border crossers 1
• Buddhist 5
• Camp management 1
• Catholic 8
• Chechen 1
• Child labour 24
• Child prostitution 19
• Child soldiers 4
• Children's rights 44
• Children-at-risk 25
• Chinese 1
• Christian 8
• Citizenship law 1
• Civil and political rights 5
• Civilian character of asylum 1
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 8
• Confidentiality 1
• Conflict situation 5
• Congregationalist 6
• 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) 1
• Corruption 15
• Crimes against humanity 1
• Criminal justice 11
• Death in custody 4
• Death penalty 3
• Denial of nationality 1
• Denial of refugee status 1
• Deportation / Forcible return 23
• Disabled persons 12
• Disappeared persons 17
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 55
• Domestic violence 9
• Drug trafficking 4
• Economic, social and cultural rights 19
• Effective protection 1
• Effective remedy 4
• Elections 11
• Entry / Exit 1
• Entry into force 1
• Equality before the law 2
• Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 1
• Exiles 1
• Extradition 1
• Extrajudicial executions 24
• Extreme poverty 2
• False documents 1
• Family reunification 1
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 5
• Forced labour 33
• Forced marriage 6
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 42
• Freedom of assembly and association 32
• Freedom of conscience 2
• Freedom of expression 81
• Freedom of information 35
• Freedom of movement 19
• Freedom of religion 37
• Freedom of speech 27
• Gender discrimination 27
• Gender-based persecution 4
• Generalized violence 2
• Genocide 2
• Good governance 14
• Gujaratis 1
• HIV and AIDS 34
• Habitual residence 1
• Harmful traditional practices 3
• Hindu 9
• Honour killings 4
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 15
• Human Rights Council 7
• Human rights activists 6
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 57
• Human rights monitors 2
• Humanitarian assistance 1
• IDP camps 5
• Illegal entry 2
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 15
• Immigrants 2
• Immigration Detention 3
• Impunity 13
• Independence of judiciary 8
• Indians 3
• Indigenous persons 9
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 21
• International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) 2
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 2
• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) 1
• International armed conflict 3
• International courts and tribunals 2
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 3
• International protection 4
• Involuntary repatriation 2
• Jew 8
• Jurisdiction 1
• Kurd 1
• Labour law 2
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 1
• Legal representation / Legal aid 1
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 33
• Livelihoods 4
• Location of camps 1
• Lutheran 8
• Mass exodus 2
• Maternal and child health care 4
• Medical screening 1
• Mental health 2
• Mercenaries 2
• Methodist 8
• Migrant rights 14
• Migrants 53
• Military law 1
• Military operations 2
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 7
• Minorities 23
• Minority rights 6
• Multiple nationality 1
• Muslim 9
• National security / Public order 1
• Naturalization 1
• Ndebele 1
• Non-refoulement 6
• Non-state agents of persecution 1
• Opposition 3
• Oromo 1
• Orthodox Christian 7
• Passports 2
• Peace agreements 2
• Peace process 1
• Peacekeeping 5
• Pentecostal 6
• Persecution based on nationality 15
• Persecution based on political opinion 9
• Persecution of family members 1
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 16
• Persons not in need of international protection 1
• Persons of concern to UNHCR 4
• Police 39
• Political groups 4
• Political parties 9
• Political situation 19
• Pre-trial detention 5
• Presbyterian 8
• Prevention of discrimination 1
• Prison or detention conditions 20
• Property restitution 1
• Prosecution vs persecution 1
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 9
• Protection of camps 1
• Protestant 6
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 1
• Public health 15
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 9
• Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 1
• Reception 1
• Refoulement 5
• Refugee / Asylum law 6
• Refugee camps 11
• Refugee identity documents 2
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 4
• Refugee travel documents / CTDs 1
• Refugees 78
• Registration 1
• Reintegration 2
• Rejected asylum-seekers 2
• Religious discrimination 20
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 11
• Resettlement 3
• Residence permits / Residency 11
• Returnees 5
• Right to a nationality 8
• Right to development 1
• Right to education 16
• Right to employment 19
• Right to family life 1
• Right to food 4
• Right to health 12
• Right to justice 2
• Right to leave 1
• Right to liberty and security 1
• Right to life 3
• Right to registration at birth 1
• Right to return 5
• Right to seek asylum 6
• Right to self-determination 3
• Rights of non-citizens 6
• Roma 1
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 12
• SGBV 63
• Sale of children 1
• San Bushmen 2
• Scientologist 5
• Security forces 14
• Security situation 29
• Seventh Day Adventist 7
• Sexual and reproductive rights 3
• Sharia law 1
• Small arms 1
• Social group discrimination 19
• Social group persecution 2
• Somalis 4
• State protection 13
• Stateless persons 3
• Statelessness 3
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 1
• Tamil 1
• Temporary admission 1
• Temporary protection 2
• Terrorism 22
• Torture 11
• Trafficking in persons 60
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 2
• Travel documents 4
• Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 2
• UNHCR mandate 1
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 3
• Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 10
• Urban refugees 2
• Visas 5
• Voluntary repatriation 3
• War crimes 2
• Well-founded fear of persecution 1
• Witnesses 4
• Women's rights 57
• Women-at-risk 24
• Work permits 5
• Xhosa 2
• Zulus 10

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• AlertNet - South Africa
• 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