Country News
Short articles covering a specific situation in a country of origin. Most often reporting on specific human rights abuses or conflict situations.
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- Council of Europe: Parliamentary Assembly 1
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- EurasiaNet 1,710
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- Freedom from Torture 1
- Freedom House 1
- Germany: Federal Office for Migration and Asylum 38
- Human Rights First 3
- Human Rights Watch 3,000
- Hungarian Helsinki Committee 1
- Immigration Advisory Service (IAS) 2
- Institute for Research on Public Policy 1
- Institute for War and Peace Reporting 1,725
- Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) 4,216
- Inter-Agency Standing Committee 5
- Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) 162
- International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) 22
- International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 228
- International Crisis Group (ICG) 47
- International Federation for Human Rights 1,114
- International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) 9
- Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre 4
- Jamestown Foundation 1,219
- Japan: District Courts 1
- Minority Rights Group International 38
- Open Society Institute (OSI) 1
- Quaker United Nations Office 1
- Radio Free Asia 2,286
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 8,436
- REDRESS 4
- Refugees International 2
- Reporters Without Borders 3,886
- UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) 15
- UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) 12
- UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) 3
- UN General Assembly 2
- UN High Commissioner for Refugees 735
- UN Human Rights Council 2
- UN Mission in Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) 2
- UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) 52
- UN News Service 4,230
- UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) 3
- UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights 9
- UN Office on Drugs and Crime 1
- UN Security Council 2
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- United Kingdom: Home Office 1
- United States Congressional Research Service 11
- World Organisation Against Torture 241
- Afghanistan 2,122
- Albania 43
- Algeria 102
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- Angola 87
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- Argentina 63
- Armenia 686
- Aruba 1
- Australia 47
- Austria 24
- Azerbaijan 1,190
- Bahrain 363
- Bangladesh 243
- Barbados 2
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- Belgium 21
- Belize 2
- Benin 39
- Bermuda 5
- Bhutan 16
- Bolivia 67
- Bosnia and Herzegovina 178
- Botswana 13
- Brazil 169
- Brunei Darussalam 3
- Bulgaria 51
- Burkina Faso 88
- Burundi 216
- Cambodia 426
- Cameroon 102
- Canada 30
- Cape Verde 4
- Cayman Islands 2
- Central African Republic 217
- Chad 181
- Chile 53
- China 2,452
- Colombia 304
- Comoros 22
- Congo, Democratic Republic of the 954
- Congo, Republic of the 69
- Costa Rica 7
- Croatia 77
- Cuba 115
- Cyprus 25
- Czech Republic 35
- Côte d'Ivoire 521
- Denmark 12
- Djibouti 52
- Dominica 1
- Dominican Republic 30
- Ecuador 79
- Egypt 860
- El Salvador 43
- Equatorial Guinea 40
- Eritrea 97
- Estonia 4
- Ethiopia 289
- Falkland Islands 2
- Fiji 22
- Finland 4
- France 86
- Gabon 41
- Gambia 109
- Georgia 1,062
- Germany 41
- Ghana 67
- Greece 46
- Grenada 3
- Guatemala 111
- Guinea 173
- Guinea-Bissau 90
- Guyana 8
- Haiti 118
- Holy See (Vatican City State) 7
- Honduras 198
- Hong Kong (Special Administrative Region of China) 32
- Hungary 47
- Iceland 2
- India 342
- Indonesia 195
- Iran, Islamic Republic of 1,896
- Iraq 1,634
- Ireland 8
- Israel 632
- Italy 73
- Jamaica 24
- Japan 29
- Jordan 172
- Kazakhstan 1,086
- Kenya 483
- Kiribati 1
- Korea, Democratic People's Republic of 215
- Korea, Republic of 64
- Kuwait 79
- Kyrgyzstan 1,184
- Lao People's Democratic Republic 102
- Latvia 27
- Lebanon 296
- Lesotho 12
- Liberia 187
- Libya 847
- Liechtenstein 1
- Lithuania 26
- Luxembourg 1
- Macau (Special Administrative Region of China) 4
- Madagascar 58
- Malawi 51
- Malaysia 204
- Maldives 46
- Mali 331
- Malta 7
- Mauritania 111
- Mauritius 6
- Mexico 386
- Moldova, Republic of 201
- Monaco 1
- Mongolia 50
- Montenegro 33
- Montserrat 1
- Morocco 163
- Mozambique 38
- Myanmar 933
- Namibia 10
- Nauru 3
- Nepal 335
- Netherlands 32
- New Caledonia 1
- New Zealand 4
- Nicaragua 30
- Niger 145
- Nigeria 365
- Norway 13
- Occupied Palestinian Territory 663
- Oman 36
- Pakistan 1,452
- Panama 24
- Papua New Guinea 40
- Paraguay 31
- Peru 96
- Philippines 369
- Poland 41
- Portugal 4
- Puerto Rico 2
- Qatar 26
- Romania 61
- Russian Federation 2,656
- Rwanda 194
- Saint Kitts and Nevis 1
- Saudi Arabia 254
- Senegal 135
- Serbia 412
- Sierra Leone 108
- Singapore 36
- Slovakia 21
- Slovenia 18
- Solomon Islands 2
- Somalia 1,056
- South Africa 191
- South Sudan 339
- Spain 23
- Sri Lanka 533
- Sudan 989
- Suriname 7
- Swaziland 49
- Sweden 23
- Switzerland 12
- Syrian Arab Republic 1,784
- Tajikistan 638
- Tanzania, United Republic of 65
- Thailand 366
- The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 50
- Timor-Leste (East Timor) 86
- Togo 68
- Tokelau 1
- Trinidad and Tobago 4
- Tunisia 381
- Turkey 657
- Turkmenistan 401
- Turks and Caicos Islands 2
- U.S. Virgin Islands 1
- Uganda 322
- Ukraine 427
- United Arab Emirates 101
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 184
- United States of America 722
- Uruguay 13
- Uzbekistan 914
- Vanuatu 3
- Venezuela 133
- Viet Nam 383
- Western Sahara Territory 28
- Yemen 671
- Zambia 54
- Zimbabwe 507
- Abduction 359
- Abkhazians 63
- Abuse of psychiatry 40
- Access to procedures 43
- Access to water 114
- Acholi 1
- Acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations 4
- Acts of persecution 5
- Adivasis 2
- Administrative courts 6
- Adoption 16
- Afars 1
- Africans 6
- Afro-Colombians 2
- Age discrimination 2
- Ahmadis 44
- Ahwazi 5
- Airports 7
- Alawi 9
- Albanians 15
- Alevis 1
- Aliens 6
- Amazonian Indians 2
- Anti-terrorism law 17
- Appeal / Right to appeal 46
- Arabs 42
- Arbitrary arrest and detention 1,439
- Armed attacks on camps 55
- Armed forces / Military 1,217
- Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 1,549
- Armenian 61
- Arrival 1
- Ashkaelian 2
- Assyrians 6
- Asylum policy 21
- Asylum-migration nexus 38
- Asylum-seekers 429
- Avars 5
- Awá 4
- Azeri 32
- Baha'i 46
- Bail 29
- Balkars 6
- Baluchis 27
- Bantu 2
- Banyamulenge 1
- Banyarwanda 1
- Baptist 271
- Basarwa 2
- Bashkirs 3
- Basques 2
- Batwa 1
- Bedoon 15
- Belarusians 1
- Bengalis 7
- Berber 9
- Berti 1
- Bihari 2
- Blood feuds 3
- Bodos 1
- Border conflict 377
- Border controls 68
- Border crossers 62
- Bosnian 12
- Buddhist 107
- Bulgarians 1
- Burden-sharing and international co-operation 12
- Cabinda 2
- Caferis 1
- Camp management 24
- Capacity building of state institutions 15
- Catholic 96
- Ceasefire 147
- Chakma 1
- Chaldean 5
- Cham 1
- Changes of circumstances in home country 1
- Chechen 235
- Child labour 97
- Child prostitution 33
- Child soldiers 191
- Children's rights 475
- Children-at-risk 370
- Chin 10
- Chinese 11
- Chittagong Hill Tribes 6
- Christian 377
- Chuvash 1
- Circassians 54
- Citizenship / Nationality law 1
- Civil and political rights 126
- Civil rights legislation 1
- Civil war 168
- Climate change (including environmental migrants) 15
- Combatants / Former combatants 212
- Communal conflict / Social conflict 356
- Community development 10
- Complementary forms of protection 4
- Confidentiality 2
- Conflict prevention 21
- Conflict resolution 620
- Conflict situation 1,406
- Confucianist 1
- Constitutional law 17
- Contemporary forms of slavery 32
- Convention against Torture (CAT) 7
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 3
- Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 3
- Convention refugee 1
- Copts 31
- Corruption 360
- Cossacks 7
- Country of origin information (COI) 5
- Coup d'état 93
- Credibility assessment 1
- Crime prevention 9
- Crimes against humanity 273
- Crimes against peace 5
- Criminal justice 1,704
- Croats 4
- Cumulative grounds of persecution 1
- Czechs 1
- Dalit 7
- Darfuri 3
- Dargins 4
- Death in custody 172
- Death penalty 641
- Death squads 32
- Demobilization / Disarmament 143
- Democracy 155
- Denial of nationality 3
- Denial of refugee status 10
- Deportation / Forcible return 286
- Dinka 2
- Dioula 1
- Diplomatic assurances 2
- Diplomatic protection 2
- Disabled persons 80
- Disappeared persons 435
- Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 275
- Domestic violence 110
- Drug trafficking 132
- Druze 4
- Economic, social and cultural rights 127
- Effective protection 2
- Effective remedy 171
- Egyptians 6
- Elderly 8
- Election law 35
- Elections 1,865
- Embargo 42
- Embera 1
- Emergency legislation 16
- Emigrants 17
- Endorois 1
- Entry / Exit 6
- Enxet 1
- Equal opportunities 29
- Equality before the law 16
- Eritreans 25
- Ethiopians 28
- Ethnic cleansing 26
- Evacuation 13
- Evangelical 9
- Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 10
- Exclusion clauses 2
- Exhaustion of domestic remedies 3
- Exiles 101
- Expedited procedures 4
- Expulsion 48
- Extradition 101
- Extrajudicial executions 781
- Extreme poverty 101
- False documents 3
- Falun Gong 9
- Family law 6
- Family reunification 9
- Female genital mutilation (FGM) 59
- Filipinos 6
- Flight by land, air or sea 25
- Forced labour 106
- Forced marriage 66
- Forced relocation 11
- Forced sterilization / Abortion 24
- Foreign occupation 120
- Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 986
- Freedom of assembly and association 1,129
- Freedom of conscience 294
- Freedom of expression 9,332
- Freedom of information 5,919
- Freedom of movement 223
- Freedom of religion 2,196
- Freedom of speech 5,417
- Fulani 4
- Fur 1
- Gaboye 1
- Gagauz 2
- Galicians 1
- Gender discrimination 156
- Gender mainstreaming 19
- Gender-based persecution 27
- Generalized violence 16
- Genocide 139
- Germans 4
- Good governance 1,161
- Good offices 3
- Greeks 1
- Gross, systematic and large-scale 28
- HIV and AIDS 146
- Habeas corpus 5
- Haitians 3
- Han 9
- Hare Krishna 56
- Harmful traditional practices 83
- Hazara 10
- Hema 1
- Hijacking 7
- Hindu 14
- Hmong 25
- Honour killings 34
- Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 541
- Human Rights Council 49
- Human rights activists 2,167
- Human rights and fundamental freedoms 1,171
- Human rights courts 31
- Human rights law 31
- Human rights monitors 347
- Humanitarian assistance 731
- Humanitarian protection (including tolerated stay) 7
- Hungarians 2
- Hutus 24
- IDP camps 152
- Illegal entry 10
- Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 65
- Illegitimate children 1
- Immigrants 36
- Immigration Detention 100
- Immigration control after entry 6
- Immigration law 2
- Immunity 46
- Impunity 754
- Income-generating projects 1
- Independence of judiciary 173
- Indians 2
- Indigenous persons 168
- Ingush 78
- Integration 44
- Internal armed conflict 1,433
- Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 1,890
- International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CPED) 2
- International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) 1
- International Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers (ICRMW) 4
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 7
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) 1
- International armed conflict 277
- International courts and tribunals 226
- International criminal law 84
- International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 73
- International protection 4
- Involuntary repatriation 21
- Iranians 24
- Jain 1
- Japanese 6
- Jehovah's Witness 317
- Jew 61
- Jurisdiction 4
- Juvenile justice system 34
- Kabards 5
- Kachin 71
- Kalenjin 2
- Karachay 7
- Karen 27
- Kashmiris 11
- Kazakhs 15
- Khakass 1
- Khmer 4
- Khmer Krom 1
- Kikuyu 2
- Komi 4
- Koreans 7
- Kosovar 91
- Krou 1
- Kuchi 4
- Kumyks 3
- Kuna 1
- Kurd 311
- Labour law 8
- Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 165
- Laws relating to religion 125
- Legal representation / Legal aid 26
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 331
- Livelihoods 122
- Location of camps 3
- Luo 2
- Lutheran 4
- Maasai 1
- Malays 4
- Malinke / Mandingo 1
- Mandate status 2
- Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims 4
- Mapuche 7
- Mass exodus 14
- Massaleit 1
- Maternal and child health care 123
- Medical screening 5
- Memoranda of understanding (MOU) 2
- Mende 1
- Mennonite 2
- Mental health 48
- Mentally disadvantaged persons 9
- Mercenaries 8
- Merina 1
- Meskhetians 8
- Messianic Jews 1
- Methodist 9
- Migrant rights 98
- Migrants 351
- Military courts 99
- Military law 15
- Military operations 710
- Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 195
- Minorities 693
- Minority rights 69
- Mon 6
- Mongols 19
- Montagnards 3
- Mormon 2
- Moros 1
- Multiple nationality 9
- Muslim 986
- National security / Public order 68
- Naturalization 1
- Nepalis 2
- Nogai 6
- Nomads 10
- Non-refoulement 33
- Non-self-governing territories 7
- Non-state agents of persecution 20
- Nuba 3
- Nuer 4
- Ogaden 1
- One-child policy / Family planning 14
- Opposition 2,062
- Orderly return 20
- Oromo 5
- Orthodox Christian 158
- Ossetians (South) 83
- Palestinian 251
- Pamiris 1
- Panjshiris 1
- Papuans 8
- Pashtun 21
- Passports 28
- Pastoralists 1
- Peace agreements 229
- Peace process 520
- Peacekeeping 514
- Pentecostal 34
- Persecution based on nationality 9
- Persecution based on political opinion 406
- Persecution of family members 68
- Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 98
- Persons not in need of international protection 11
- Persons of concern to UNHCR 23
- Physical harm 1
- Piracy 17
- Poles 14
- Police 710
- Political asylum 20
- Political groups 649
- Political parties 1,099
- Political situation 3,883
- Polygamy 12
- Population transfers 5
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 9
- Pre-trial detention 132
- Presbyterian 14
- Prevention of discrimination 17
- Prison or detention conditions 621
- Prisoners of war 6
- Proof of nationality 1
- Property restitution 12
- Prosecution vs persecution 154
- Prostitution / Commercial sex work 47
- Protection of camps 25
- Protection of civilian persons in time of war 635
- Protestant 287
- Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 142
- Public health 336
- Punjabis 2
- Racial / Ethnic persecution 116
- Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 6
- Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 1
- Ratification 2
- Re-entry 2
- Reception 3
- Reconciliation 184
- Referendum 122
- Refoulement 27
- Refugee / Asylum law 14
- Refugee camps 296
- Refugee identity documents 4
- Refugee law 4
- Refugee seamen 65
- Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 11
- Refugees 1,424
- Regional instruments 1
- Registration 21
- Reintegration 45
- Rejected asylum-seekers 14
- Rejection at border 7
- Religious discrimination 1,177
- Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 252
- Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 16
- Resettlement 108
- Residence permits / Residency 15
- Return conditions 150
- Returnees 287
- Right to a nationality 14
- Right to development 6
- Right to education 315
- Right to employment 116
- Right to family life 24
- Right to food 210
- Right to health 169
- Right to justice 196
- Right to leave 1
- Right to liberty and security 24
- Right to life 79
- Right to registration at birth 13
- Right to return 16
- Right to seek asylum 47
- Right to self-determination 95
- Rights of non-citizens 10
- Rohingya (Arakanese) 147
- Roma 85
- Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 813
- Russians 64
- Rwandans 5
- SGBV 606
- Sabean Mandean 6
- Safe country of origin 1
- Saharawis 11
- Salafi 61
- Sale of children 22
- San Bushmen 1
- Sanctions 125
- Scientologist 2
- Secondary movement 4
- Security forces 1,186
- Security situation 4,283
- Serb 40
- Serious non-political crime 21
- Seventh Day Adventist 37
- Sexual and reproductive rights 94
- Shabak 3
- Shamanism 1
- Shan 16
- Sharia law 50
- Shia 238
- Signatories and Parties 1
- Sikh 5
- Sindhis 1
- Single heads of household 2
- Sinhalese 4
- Slavs 4
- Small arms 50
- Smuggling of persons 37
- Social group discrimination 34
- Social group persecution 14
- Somalis 169
- Spontaneous return 5
- Standard of proof 3
- State of emergency 75
- State protection 17
- Stateless persons 32
- Statelessness 34
- Sufi 45
- Sunni 195
- Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 3
- Tajik 16
- Talysh 3
- Tamil 83
- Tatars 80
- Temporary admission 1
- Temporary protection 4
- Terrorism 1,508
- Threats / Intimidation 48
- Tibetan 477
- Torres Strait Islanders 1
- Torture 179
- Trafficking in persons 222
- Transit 6
- Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 129
- Travel documents 5
- Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 46
- Tuareg 53
- Turkmen 12
- Turks 7
- Tutsis 17
- Uighur 334
- Ukrainians 5
- Unaccompanied / Separated children 33
- Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 32
- Urban refugees 19
- Urueu-Wau-Wau 1
- Uzbek 147
- Vietnamese 1
- Visas 45
- Voluntary repatriation 99
- War crimes 448
- Well-founded fear of persecution 7
- Widowed persons 3
- Witchcraft 2
- Withdrawal of nationality 3
- Witnesses 30
- Women's rights 655
- Women-at-risk 181
- Work permits 8
- Yazīdī 7
- Zoroastrian 4
- Zulus 1
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