Papua New Guinea

• Amnesty International 34
• Asylum Aid 3
• Australia: Federal Magistrates Court 1
• Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal 5
• Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada 5
• Child Soldiers International 3
• Committee to Protect Journalists 7
• Freedom House 21
• Human Rights Watch 16
• Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) 14
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 1
• International Crisis Group (ICG) 3
• International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association 1
• Minorities at Risk Project 2
• Minority Rights Group International 7
• National Legislative Bodies 5
• Refugee Studies Centre 1
• Refugees International 1
• Reporters Without Borders 6
• UN Cartographic Section 2
• UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) 2
• UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) 2
• UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 1
• UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) 1
• UN High Commissioner for Refugees 8
• UN Human Rights Council 4
• UN News Service 6
• UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights 1
• UN Security Council 7
• United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants 9
• United States Department of Labor 11
• United States Department of State 41

• Annual Reports 128
• Case Law 4
• Chronologies of Events 1
• Commentaries 1
• Concluding Observations 2
• Country News 35
• Country Operations Plans 3
• Country Profiles 2
• Country Reports 27
• Maps 4
• Multilateral Treaties/Agreements 1
• National Legislation 5
• Presidential Statements 2
• Query Responses 7
• Speeches/Statements 1
• States Parties Reports 2
• Thematic Reports 6

• Abduction 2
• Access to procedures 1
• Acts of persecution 1
• Anglican 6
• Animist 4
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 20
• Armed forces / Military 3
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 3
• Assemblies of God 1
• Asylum-seekers 6
• Baha'i 6
• Baptist 6
• Blood feuds 1
• Bouganvilleans 3
• Buddhist 1
• Catholic 7
• Child labour 15
• Child prostitution 13
• Child soldiers 5
• Children's rights 34
• Children-at-risk 14
• Chinese 2
• Christian 8
• Citizenship law 1
• Civil and political rights 1
• Combatants / Former combatants 1
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 5
• Conflict situation 2
• Confucianist 5
• Constitutional law 1
• Convention against Torture (CAT) 1
• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 1
• Corruption 10
• Criminal justice 6
• Death penalty 4
• Demobilization / Disarmament 2
• Disabled persons 9
• Disappeared persons 15
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 18
• Domestic violence 5
• Drug trafficking 1
• Economic, social and cultural rights 13
• Effective protection 2
• Effective remedy 2
• Elections 11
• Evangelical 7
• Extradition 2
• Extrajudicial executions 19
• Extreme poverty 1
• Forced labour 28
• Forced marriage 2
• Forced sterilization / Abortion 1
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 25
• Freedom of assembly and association 18
• Freedom of expression 39
• Freedom of information 13
• Freedom of movement 17
• Freedom of religion 32
• Freedom of speech 18
• Gang related violence 1
• Gender discrimination 25
• Gender-based persecution 2
• Good governance 2
• Grounds for persecution 1
• HIV and AIDS 11
• Harmful traditional practices 3
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 5
• Human Rights Council 1
• Human rights activists 1
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 25
• Human rights monitors 5
• Humanitarian assistance 1
• IDP camps 1
• Illegal entry 1
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 1
• Immigrants 1
• Immigration Detention 6
• Impunity 4
• Independence of judiciary 1
• Indigenous persons 5
• Integration 1
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 4
• International protection 2
• Jehovah's Witness 5
• Juvenile justice system 2
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 2
• Location of camps 1
• Lutheran 7
• Maternal and child health care 3
• Melanesians 2
• Mercenaries 1
• Migrants 4
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 5
• Minorities 15
• Minority rights 1
• Mormon 6
• Muslim 6
• Nationality law 2
• Peace agreements 1
• Pentecostal 7
• Persecution based on nationality 1
• Persecution based on political opinion 3
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 2
• Persons of concern to UNHCR 1
• Police 18
• Political groups 1
• Political parties 3
• Political situation 5
• Polygamy 1
• Pre-entry procedures 1
• Pre-trial detention 4
• Prison or detention conditions 14
• Proof of nationality 1
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 4
• Protestant 2
• Public health 5
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 4
• Refoulement 1
• Refugee / Asylum law 1
• Refugee camps 1
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 2
• Refugee travel documents / CTDs 1
• Refugees 12
• Reintegration 2
• Religious discrimination 17
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 10
• Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 2
• Reservation 1
• Resettlement 3
• Residence permits / Residency 1
• Returnees 1
• Right to a nationality 2
• Right to education 7
• Right to family life 1
• Right to health 5
• Right to life 1
• Right to self-determination 4
• Rights of non-citizens 1
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 4
• SGBV 46
• Sale of children 2
• Security forces 8
• Security situation 5
• Seventh Day Adventist 6
• Sexual and reproductive rights 1
• Small arms 3
• Smuggling of persons 3
• Social group discrimination 14
• Social group persecution 2
• State of emergency 1
• State protection 1
• Stateless persons 2
• Statelessness 2
• Temporary admission 1
• Terrorism 3
• Torture 5
• Trafficking in persons 28
• Transit 1
• Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 1
• Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2
• Urban refugees 1
• Visas 1
• Witchcraft 2
• Women's rights 32
• Women-at-risk 15
• Work permits 1

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• AlertNet - Papua New Guinea
• Amnesty International - Papua New Guinea
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Papua New Guinea
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) - Papua New Guinea
• Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) - Papua New Guinea
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC regional delegation in Suva
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) - Papua New Guinea
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Papua New Guinea
• ReliefWeb - Papua New Guinea
• UNHCR - Papua New Guinea
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Papua New Guinea
• United States Department of State - Papua New Guinea
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Papua New Guinea