Country News
Short articles covering a specific situation in a country of origin. Most often reporting on specific human rights abuses or conflict situations.
- Afghanistan 159
- Albania 3
- Algeria 13
- American Samoa 2
- Angola 13
- Anguilla 1
- Argentina 3
- Armenia 3
- Australia 3
- Azerbaijan 1
- Bahrain 40
- Bangladesh 11
- Barbados 1
- Belarus 11
- Belize 1
- Benin 5
- Bermuda 1
- Bhutan 3
- Bolivia 6
- Bosnia and Herzegovina 31
- Botswana 2
- Brazil 14
- Bulgaria 5
- Burkina Faso 11
- Burundi 32
- Cambodia 50
- Cameroon 9
- Canada 1
- Cape Verde 1
- Cayman Islands 1
- Central African Republic 85
- Chad 52
- Chile 3
- China 24
- Colombia 33
- Congo, Democratic Republic of the 342
- Congo, Republic of the 11
- Croatia 8
- Cuba 1
- Cyprus 17
- Côte d'Ivoire 159
- Denmark 1
- Djibouti 8
- Dominican Republic 3
- Ecuador 8
- Egypt 57
- El Salvador 5
- Equatorial Guinea 3
- Eritrea 19
- Estonia 1
- Ethiopia 30
- Falkland Islands 1
- Fiji 4
- France 2
- Gabon 5
- Gambia 4
- Georgia 19
- Germany 2
- Ghana 7
- Greece 6
- Guatemala 18
- Guinea 29
- Guinea-Bissau 37
- Haiti 62
- Honduras 24
- Hungary 4
- Iceland 2
- India 27
- Indonesia 7
- Iran, Islamic Republic of 51
- Iraq 173
- Ireland 1
- Israel 148
- Italy 12
- Jamaica 1
- Japan 3
- Jordan 21
- Kazakhstan 4
- Kenya 68
- Korea, Democratic People's Republic of 19
- Korea, Republic of 3
- Kuwait 3
- Kyrgyzstan 19
- Lao People's Democratic Republic 5
- Latvia 2
- Lebanon 82
- Lesotho 2
- Liberia 69
- Libya 164
- Macau (Special Administrative Region of China) 1
- Madagascar 6
- Malawi 6
- Malaysia 7
- Maldives 12
- Mali 81
- Malta 2
- Mauritania 13
- Mexico 25
- Moldova, Republic of 5
- Mongolia 4
- Montenegro 3
- Montserrat 1
- Morocco 11
- Mozambique 5
- Myanmar 96
- Namibia 3
- Nauru 1
- Nepal 98
- New Caledonia 1
- New Zealand 1
- Niger 18
- Nigeria 34
- Norway 2
- Occupied Palestinian Territory 162
- Pakistan 81
- Panama 2
- Papua New Guinea 6
- Paraguay 6
- Peru 5
- Philippines 28
- Qatar 2
- Romania 1
- Russian Federation 17
- Rwanda 39
- Saudi Arabia 13
- Senegal 13
- Serbia 46
- Sierra Leone 32
- Slovenia 2
- Solomon Islands 2
- Somalia 275
- South Africa 10
- South Sudan 144
- Spain 2
- Sri Lanka 70
- Sudan 347
- Suriname 2
- Sweden 2
- Switzerland 1
- Syrian Arab Republic 335
- Tajikistan 4
- Tanzania, United Republic of 11
- Thailand 25
- The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 5
- Timor-Leste (East Timor) 33
- Togo 5
- Tokelau 1
- Tunisia 26
- Turkey 22
- Turkmenistan 1
- Turks and Caicos Islands 1
- U.S. Virgin Islands 1
- Uganda 30
- Ukraine 3
- United Arab Emirates 2
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 2
- United States of America 6
- Uruguay 1
- Uzbekistan 4
- Venezuela 12
- Viet Nam 6
- Western Sahara Territory 11
- Yemen 103
- Zambia 6
- Zimbabwe 24
- Abduction 25
- Abkhazians 1
- Access to procedures 3
- Access to water 10
- Acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations 3
- Administrative courts 1
- Adoption 2
- Africans 1
- Afro-Colombians 1
- Age discrimination 1
- Ahmadis 1
- Alawi 2
- Albanians 7
- Aliens 1
- Anti-terrorism law 2
- Appeal / Right to appeal 1
- Arabs 1
- Arbitrary arrest and detention 70
- Armed attacks on camps 19
- Armed forces / Military 96
- Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 140
- Armenian 1
- Ashkaelian 1
- Asylum policy 5
- Asylum-migration nexus 4
- Asylum-seekers 62
- Awá 1
- Baha'i 1
- Banyamulenge 1
- Banyarwanda 1
- Berti 1
- Border conflict 93
- Border controls 8
- Border crossers 6
- Buddhist 17
- Burden-sharing and international co-operation 5
- Camp management 7
- Capacity building of state institutions 3
- Catholic 1
- Ceasefire 50
- Changes of circumstances in home country 1
- Child labour 6
- Child prostitution 7
- Child soldiers 77
- Children's rights 110
- Children-at-risk 76
- Chin 1
- Christian 16
- Civil and political rights 22
- Civil war 37
- Combatants / Former combatants 54
- Communal conflict / Social conflict 53
- Community development 5
- Conflict prevention 14
- Conflict resolution 240
- Conflict situation 387
- Constitutional law 7
- Contemporary forms of slavery 8
- Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 1
- Copts 4
- Corruption 10
- Country of origin information (COI) 1
- Coup d'état 20
- Crime prevention 4
- Crimes against humanity 79
- Crimes against peace 1
- Criminal justice 93
- Dalit 4
- Darfuri 1
- Death in custody 6
- Death penalty 48
- Death squads 4
- Demobilization / Disarmament 44
- Democracy 58
- Deportation / Forcible return 14
- Dinka 1
- Diplomatic protection 2
- Disabled persons 6
- Disappeared persons 37
- Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 34
- Domestic violence 6
- Drug trafficking 11
- Druze 1
- Economic, social and cultural rights 23
- Effective protection 1
- Effective remedy 23
- Egyptians 1
- Elderly 2
- Election law 7
- Elections 266
- Embargo 10
- Emigrants 1
- Equal opportunities 2
- Eritreans 4
- Ethiopians 6
- Ethnic cleansing 3
- Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 2
- Exclusion clauses 1
- Exiles 16
- Expulsion 7
- Extradition 1
- Extrajudicial executions 147
- Extreme poverty 15
- Family reunification 1
- Female genital mutilation (FGM) 1
- Filipinos 3
- Flight by land, air or sea 12
- Forced labour 7
- Forced marriage 3
- Forced sterilization / Abortion 2
- Foreign occupation 43
- Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 85
- Freedom of assembly and association 82
- Freedom of conscience 9
- Freedom of expression 290
- Freedom of information 187
- Freedom of movement 25
- Freedom of religion 26
- Freedom of speech 182
- Gender discrimination 14
- Gender mainstreaming 4
- Gender-based persecution 4
- Generalized violence 6
- Genocide 48
- Good governance 247
- Good offices 3
- Greeks 1
- Gross, systematic and large-scale 9
- HIV and AIDS 10
- Harmful traditional practices 7
- Hazara 2
- Hijacking 2
- Hmong 3
- Honour killings 1
- Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 46
- Human Rights Council 13
- Human rights activists 88
- Human rights and fundamental freedoms 177
- Human rights courts 3
- Human rights law 4
- Human rights monitors 17
- Humanitarian assistance 235
- Humanitarian protection (including tolerated stay) 3
- Hutus 11
- IDP camps 23
- Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 8
- Immigrants 3
- Immigration Detention 7
- Immunity 9
- Impunity 138
- Independence of judiciary 36
- Indigenous persons 29
- Integration 8
- Internal armed conflict 390
- Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 415
- International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) 1
- International Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers (ICRMW) 1
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 1
- International armed conflict 71
- International courts and tribunals 68
- International criminal law 29
- International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 30
- International protection 2
- Involuntary repatriation 2
- Iranians 10
- Japanese 2
- Jew 1
- Juvenile justice system 1
- Kachin 9
- Kurd 6
- Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 24
- Legal representation / Legal aid 5
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 14
- Livelihoods 7
- Location of camps 2
- Luo 1
- Mandate status 1
- Mapuche 1
- Mass exodus 1
- Maternal and child health care 9
- Memoranda of understanding (MOU) 2
- Mental health 2
- Mercenaries 2
- Migrant rights 6
- Migrants 23
- Military courts 4
- Military law 1
- Military operations 51
- Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 7
- Minorities 23
- Minority rights 14
- Muslim 29
- National security / Public order 11
- Nepalis 1
- Non-refoulement 7
- Non-state agents of persecution 2
- Nuer 2
- Opposition 55
- Orderly return 7
- Palestinian 92
- Pashtun 1
- Peace agreements 122
- Peace process 197
- Peacekeeping 397
- Persecution based on nationality 2
- Persecution based on political opinion 27
- Persecution of family members 1
- Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 7
- Persons not in need of international protection 3
- Persons of concern to UNHCR 3
- Piracy 7
- Police 42
- Political groups 59
- Political parties 125
- Political situation 615
- Population transfers 2
- Pre-trial detention 4
- Prevention of discrimination 2
- Prison or detention conditions 44
- Prisoners of war 2
- Prosecution vs persecution 4
- Prostitution / Commercial sex work 1
- Protection of camps 9
- Protection of civilian persons in time of war 213
- Protestant 1
- Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 3
- Public health 20
- Racial / Ethnic persecution 15
- Reception 1
- Reconciliation 68
- Referendum 29
- Refugee / Asylum law 4
- Refugee camps 66
- Refugee identity documents 1
- Refugee seamen 14
- Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 4
- Refugees 303
- Registration 6
- Reintegration 13
- Rejected asylum-seekers 1
- Religious discrimination 15
- Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 12
- Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 4
- Resettlement 22
- Return conditions 22
- Returnees 53
- Right to a nationality 1
- Right to development 4
- Right to education 28
- Right to employment 6
- Right to family life 4
- Right to food 31
- Right to health 23
- Right to justice 27
- Right to liberty and security 10
- Right to life 14
- Right to registration at birth 1
- Right to return 2
- Right to seek asylum 10
- Right to self-determination 22
- Rights of non-citizens 1
- Rohingya (Arakanese) 14
- Roma 9
- Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 166
- Russians 1
- Rwandans 1
- SGBV 152
- Sabean Mandean 1
- Saharawis 1
- Sale of children 3
- San Bushmen 1
- Sanctions 21
- Secondary movement 2
- Security forces 141
- Security situation 966
- Serb 6
- Serious non-political crime 2
- Sexual and reproductive rights 6
- Shabak 1
- Shan 5
- Sharia law 5
- Shia 11
- Signatories and Parties 1
- Small arms 8
- Smuggling of persons 11
- Social group discrimination 6
- Social group persecution 4
- Somalis 38
- State of emergency 7
- Stateless persons 3
- Statelessness 3
- Sufi 5
- Sunni 2
- Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 1
- Tamil 7
- Temporary protection 1
- Terrorism 117
- Threats / Intimidation 4
- Tibetan 3
- Torture 6
- Trafficking in persons 17
- Transit 2
- Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 69
- Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 20
- Tuareg 18
- Turkmen 1
- Turks 1
- Tutsis 6
- Uighur 1
- Unaccompanied / Separated children 5
- Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1
- Urban refugees 3
- Urueu-Wau-Wau 1
- Uzbek 7
- Voluntary repatriation 23
- War crimes 114
- Well-founded fear of persecution 1
- Witnesses 2
- Women's rights 47
- Women-at-risk 23
- Work permits 1
- Yazīdī 1
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