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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- Freedom from Torture 1
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- Germany: Federal Office for Migration and Asylum 146
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- Human Rights Watch 3,836
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- Inter-Agency 2
- Inter-Agency Standing Committee 5
- Inter-Parliamentary Union 9
- International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) 22
- International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 228
- International Crisis Group (ICG) 56
- International Federation for Human Rights 1,482
- International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) 9
- Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre 4
- Jamestown Foundation 1,787
- Japan: District Courts 1
- Minority Rights Group International 38
- Norwegian Refugee Council/Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (NRC/IDMC) 183
- Open Society Institute (OSI) 1
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- Quaker United Nations Office 1
- Radio Free Asia 3,850
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 12,221
- REDRESS 4
- Refugees International 2
- Reporters Without Borders 4,613
- UN Ad Hoc Committee on Refugees and Stateless Persons 2
- UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) 16
- UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) 12
- UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) 3
- UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) 1
- UN General Assembly 2
- UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 1,085
- UN Human Rights Council 2
- UN Mission in Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) 2
- UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) 52
- UN Mission to South Sudan (UNMISS) 1
- UN News Service 5,806
- UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) 4
- UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) 11
- UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) 1
- UN Security Council 2
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- United Kingdom: Home Office 1
- United Nations 1
- United States Congressional Research Service 11
- World Organisation Against Torture 244
- Afghanistan 2,933
- Albania 62
- Algeria 154
- American Samoa 2
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- Angola 105
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- Antigua and Barbuda 1
- Argentina 72
- Armenia 812
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- Australia 75
- Austria 32
- Azerbaijan 1,464
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- Bahrain 461
- Bangladesh 359
- Barbados 3
- Belarus 911
- Belgium 26
- Belize 3
- Benin 44
- Bermuda 5
- Bhutan 17
- Bolivia 74
- Bosnia and Herzegovina 302
- Botswana 16
- Brazil 219
- Brunei Darussalam 5
- Bulgaria 79
- Burkina Faso 101
- Burundi 248
- Cambodia 776
- Cameroon 166
- Canada 42
- Cape Verde 4
- Cayman Islands 2
- Central African Republic 548
- Chad 220
- Chile 66
- China 3,658
- Colombia 389
- Comoros 23
- Congo, Democratic Republic of the 1,199
- Congo, Republic of the 82
- Costa Rica 11
- Croatia 96
- Cuba 158
- Cyprus 33
- Czech Republic 51
- Côte d'Ivoire 573
- Denmark 12
- Djibouti 66
- Dominica 1
- Dominican Republic 47
- Ecuador 101
- Egypt 1,354
- El Salvador 47
- Equatorial Guinea 48
- Eritrea 154
- Estonia 6
- Ethiopia 375
- Falkland Islands 2
- Fiji 25
- Finland 6
- France 142
- Gabon 41
- Gambia 134
- Georgia 1,293
- Germany 69
- Ghana 75
- Greece 66
- Grenada 4
- Guam 1
- Guatemala 129
- Guinea 206
- Guinea-Bissau 110
- Guyana 9
- Haiti 147
- Holy See (Vatican City State) 9
- Honduras 242
- Hong Kong (Special Administrative Region of China) 78
- Hungary 53
- Iceland 2
- India 464
- Indonesia 257
- Iran, Islamic Republic of 2,349
- Iraq 2,286
- Ireland 8
- Israel 813
- Italy 99
- Jamaica 25
- Japan 38
- Jordan 228
- Kazakhstan 1,312
- Kenya 685
- Kiribati 1
- Korea, Democratic People's Republic of 353
- Korea, Republic of 82
- Kuwait 96
- Kyrgyzstan 1,408
- Lao People's Democratic Republic 171
- Latvia 34
- Lebanon 457
- Lesotho 12
- Liberia 212
- Libya 1,070
- Liechtenstein 1
- Lithuania 49
- Luxembourg 1
- Macau (Special Administrative Region of China) 4
- Madagascar 71
- Malawi 63
- Malaysia 252
- Maldives 61
- Mali 495
- Malta 10
- Mauritania 130
- Mauritius 6
- Mexico 460
- Moldova, Republic of 262
- Monaco 1
- Mongolia 61
- Montenegro 40
- Montserrat 1
- Morocco 207
- Mozambique 46
- Myanmar 1,355
- Namibia 10
- Nauru 5
- Nepal 373
- Netherlands 70
- New Caledonia 1
- New Zealand 4
- Nicaragua 34
- Niger 168
- Nigeria 577
- Norway 16
- Oman 41
- Pakistan 2,056
- Panama 27
- Papua New Guinea 59
- Paraguay 42
- Peru 104
- Philippines 418
- Poland 58
- Portugal 4
- Puerto Rico 2
- Qatar 44
- Romania 73
- Russian Federation 4,241
- Rwanda 229
- Saint Kitts and Nevis 2
- Saudi Arabia 342
- Senegal 157
- Serbia 602
- Sierra Leone 136
- Singapore 45
- Slovakia 31
- Slovenia 19
- Solomon Islands 2
- Somalia 1,327
- South Africa 213
- South Sudan 590
- Spain 41
- Sri Lanka 632
- State of Palestine 878
- Sudan 1,160
- Suriname 9
- Swaziland 65
- Sweden 37
- Switzerland 27
- Syrian Arab Republic 2,614
- Tajikistan 836
- Tanzania, United Republic of 82
- Thailand 501
- The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 80
- Timor-Leste (East Timor) 95
- Togo 80
- Tokelau 1
- Tonga 1
- Trinidad and Tobago 5
- Tunisia 494
- Turkey 920
- Turkmenistan 438
- Turks and Caicos Islands 2
- U.S. Virgin Islands 2
- Uganda 458
- Ukraine 1,157
- United Arab Emirates 139
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 226
- United States of America 1,095
- Uruguay 16
- Uzbekistan 1,076
- Vanuatu 4
- Venezuela 182
- Viet Nam 596
- Western Sahara Territory 45
- Yemen 833
- Zambia 71
- Zimbabwe 549
- Abduction 591
- Abkhazians 73
- Abuse of psychiatry 71
- Access to procedures 53
- Access to water 184
- Acholi 1
- Acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations 5
- Acts of persecution 5
- Adivasis 2
- Administrative courts 7
- Adoption 23
- Adygey 1
- Afars 1
- Africans 12
- Afro-Colombians 4
- Age discrimination 4
- Ahmadis 57
- Ahwazi 12
- Airports 30
- Alawi 13
- Albanians 23
- Alevis 1
- Aliens 6
- Amazonian Indians 2
- Anti-terrorism law 87
- Appeal / Right to appeal 69
- Arabs 65
- Arbitrary arrest and detention 2,046
- Armed attacks on camps 82
- Armed forces / Military 1,800
- Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 2,346
- Armenian 72
- Arrival 2
- Ashkaelian 2
- Assyrians 7
- Asylum policy 24
- Asylum-migration nexus 70
- Asylum-seekers 560
- Avars 7
- Awá 4
- Azeri 42
- Baha'i 52
- Bail 42
- Balkars 8
- Baluchis 37
- Bantu 3
- Banyamulenge 2
- Banyarwanda 1
- Baptist 293
- Basarwa 2
- Bashkirs 3
- Basques 2
- Batwa 1
- Bedoon 33
- Belarusians 5
- Bengalis 9
- Berber 11
- Berti 1
- Bihari 4
- Blood feuds 3
- Bodos 1
- Border conflict 544
- Border controls 96
- Border crossers 85
- Bosnian 21
- Buddhist 159
- Bulgarians 2
- Burden-sharing and international co-operation 19
- Cabinda 2
- Caferis 1
- Camp management 36
- Capacity building of state institutions 16
- Catholic 120
- Ceasefire 255
- Cessation clauses 3
- Chakma 1
- Chaldean 5
- Cham 1
- Changes of circumstances in home country 1
- Chechen 315
- Cherkess 1
- Child labour 109
- Child prostitution 35
- Child soldiers 213
- Children's rights 595
- Children-at-risk 514
- Chin 17
- Chinese 17
- Chittagong Hill Tribes 7
- Christian 604
- Chukchi 1
- Chuvash 3
- Circassians 76
- Citizenship / Nationality law 6
- Civil and political rights 311
- Civil rights legislation 2
- Civil war 251
- Civilian character of asylum 1
- Climate change (including environmental migrants) 23
- Combatants / Former combatants 223
- Communal conflict / Social conflict 662
- Community development 13
- Complementary forms of protection 4
- Confidentiality 2
- Conflict prevention 49
- Conflict resolution 919
- Conflict situation 1,615
- Confucianist 1
- Constitutional law 19
- Contemporary forms of slavery 35
- Convention against Torture (CAT) 8
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 6
- Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CPRD) 1
- Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 3
- Convention refugee 1
- Copts 37
- Corruption 578
- Cossacks 12
- Country of origin information (COI) 9
- Coup d'état 126
- Credibility assessment 1
- Crime prevention 13
- Crimes against humanity 362
- Crimes against peace 6
- Criminal justice 1,773
- Croats 12
- Cumulative grounds of persecution 1
- Customary law 1
- Czechs 1
- Dalit 9
- Darfuri 4
- Dargins 4
- Death in custody 218
- Death penalty 895
- Death squads 35
- Demobilization / Disarmament 215
- Democracy 223
- Denial of nationality 6
- Denial of refugee status 10
- Deportation / Forcible return 369
- Dinka 4
- Dioula 1
- Diplomatic assurances 2
- Diplomatic protection 3
- Disabled persons 107
- Disappeared persons 594
- Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 371
- Domestic violence 134
- Drug trafficking 165
- Druze 6
- Economic, social and cultural rights 230
- Effective protection 3
- Effective remedy 344
- Egyptians 7
- Elderly 17
- Election law 44
- Elections 2,543
- Embargo 54
- Embera 1
- Emergency legislation 16
- Emigrants 20
- Endorois 1
- Entry / Exit 10
- Enxet 1
- Equal opportunities 30
- Equality before the law 16
- Eritreans 32
- Ethiopians 35
- Ethnic cleansing 28
- Evacuation 16
- Evangelical 11
- Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 10
- Exclusion clauses 3
- Exhaustion of domestic remedies 3
- Exiles 136
- Expedited procedures 4
- Expulsion 74
- Extradition 172
- Extrajudicial executions 940
- Extreme poverty 130
- False documents 4
- Falun Gong 18
- Family law 6
- Family reunification 16
- Female genital mutilation (FGM) 64
- Filipinos 6
- Flight by land, air or sea 46
- Forced labour 141
- Forced marriage 83
- Forced relocation 27
- Forced sterilization / Abortion 39
- Foreign occupation 236
- Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 1,258
- Freedom of assembly and association 1,747
- Freedom of conscience 363
- Freedom of expression 11,369
- Freedom of information 7,378
- Freedom of movement 307
- Freedom of religion 2,503
- Freedom of speech 6,408
- Fulani 11
- Fur 1
- Gaboye 1
- Gagauz 3
- Galicians 1
- Gang related violence 14
- Gender discrimination 197
- Gender mainstreaming 23
- Gender-based persecution 88
- Generalized violence 35
- Genocide 192
- Germans 4
- Good governance 1,357
- Good offices 4
- Greeks 1
- Gross, systematic and large-scale 30
- HIV and AIDS 197
- Habeas corpus 5
- Haitians 6
- Han 13
- Hare Krishna 61
- Harmful traditional practices 90
- Hazara 15
- Hema 1
- Hijacking 9
- Hindu 26
- Hmong 30
- Honour killings 46
- Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 744
- Human Rights Council 77
- Human rights activists 2,866
- Human rights and fundamental freedoms 1,781
- Human rights courts 46
- Human rights law 43
- Human rights monitors 496
- Humanitarian assistance 1,204
- Humanitarian protection (including tolerated stay) 7
- Hungarians 2
- Hutus 29
- IDP camps 186
- Illegal entry 10
- Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 83
- Illegitimate children 1
- Immigrants 42
- Immigration Detention 117
- Immigration control after entry 6
- Immigration law 4
- Immunity 66
- Impunity 949
- Income-generating projects 2
- Independence of judiciary 212
- Indians 2
- Indigenous persons 208
- Ingush 91
- Integration 50
- Internal armed conflict 2,091
- Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 4
- Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 2,381
- International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CPED) 3
- 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) 10
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) 3
- International armed conflict 363
- International courts and tribunals 426
- International criminal law 122
- International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 149
- International protection 4
- Involuntary repatriation 24
- Iranians 40
- Jain 1
- Japanese 6
- Jehovah's Witness 355
- Jew 70
- Jurisdiction 5
- Juvenile justice system 39
- Kabards 9
- Kachin 105
- Kalenjin 6
- Karachay 9
- Karen 28
- Kashmiris 15
- Kazakhs 19
- Khakass 1
- Khmer 5
- Khmer Krom 4
- Kikuyu 3
- Komi 4
- Koreans 7
- Kosovar 130
- Krou 1
- Kuchi 4
- Kumyks 6
- Kuna 1
- Kurd 376
- Labour law 15
- Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 205
- Law of the sea 1
- Laws relating to religion 155
- Legal representation / Legal aid 37
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 547
- Lezgin 1
- Livelihoods 141
- Location of camps 7
- Luo 2
- Lutheran 5
- Maasai 2
- Macedonians 1
- Malays 6
- Malinke / Mandingo 1
- Mandate status 2
- Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims 4
- Mapuche 10
- Maronite 2
- Mass exodus 14
- Massaleit 1
- Maternal and child health care 157
- Mbororo 1
- Medical screening 5
- Melanesians 1
- Memoranda of understanding (MOU) 2
- Mende 1
- Mennonite 3
- Mental harm 1
- Mental health 64
- Mentally disadvantaged persons 12
- Mercenaries 8
- Merina 1
- Meskhetians 10
- Messianic Jews 1
- Methodist 9
- Migrant rights 148
- Migrants 487
- Military courts 123
- Military law 49
- Military operations 966
- Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 236
- Minorities 750
- Minority rights 103
- Mon 7
- Mongols 40
- Montagnards 3
- Mormon 4
- Moros 1
- Multiple nationality 14
- Muslim 1,390
- National security / Public order 143
- Naturalization 2
- Nepalis 4
- Nogai 6
- Nomads 13
- Non-refoulement 39
- Non-self-governing territories 17
- Non-state agents of persecution 29
- Nuba 3
- Nuer 10
- Ogaden 1
- One-child policy / Family planning 23
- Opposition 2,526
- Orderly return 22
- Oromo 5
- Orthodox Christian 194
- Ossetians (South) 99
- Palestinian 419
- Pamiris 1
- Panjshiris 1
- Papuans 16
- Pashtun 26
- Passports 37
- Pastoralists 1
- Peace agreements 332
- Peace process 727
- Peacekeeping 738
- Pentecostal 37
- Persecution based on nationality 9
- Persecution based on political opinion 765
- Persecution of family members 88
- Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 230
- Persons not in need of international protection 13
- Persons of concern to UNHCR 25
- Physical harm 1
- Piracy 25
- Poles 15
- Police 1,043
- Political asylum 25
- Political groups 681
- Political parties 1,302
- Political situation 4,901
- Polygamy 16
- Population transfers 5
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 9
- Pre-trial detention 177
- Presbyterian 25
- Prevention of discrimination 20
- Prison or detention conditions 841
- Prisoners of war 6
- Proof of nationality 1
- Property restitution 28
- Prosecution vs persecution 154
- Prostitution / Commercial sex work 71
- Protection of camps 28
- Protection of civilian persons in time of war 914
- Protestant 324
- Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 1,103
- Public health 394
- Punjabis 2
- Racial / Ethnic persecution 152
- Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 25
- Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 1
- Ratification 2
- Re-entry 2
- Reception 13
- Reconciliation 274
- Referendum 180
- Refoulement 32
- Refugee / Asylum law 18
- Refugee camps 401
- Refugee identity documents 11
- Refugee law 5
- Refugee seamen 101
- Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 16
- Refugees 2,001
- Regional instruments 1
- Registration 26
- Reintegration 62
- Rejected asylum-seekers 18
- Rejection at border 12
- Religious discrimination 1,243
- Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 329
- Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 32
- Resettlement 130
- Residence permits / Residency 23
- Return conditions 181
- Returnees 332
- Right to a nationality 23
- Right to development 8
- Right to education 383
- Right to employment 123
- Right to family life 26
- Right to food 283
- Right to health 257
- Right to justice 204
- Right to leave 1
- Right to liberty and security 25
- Right to life 82
- Right to registration at birth 15
- Right to return 24
- Right to seek asylum 70
- Right to self-determination 128
- Rights of non-citizens 13
- Rohingya (Arakanese) 225
- Roma 111
- Romanians 1
- Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 1,039
- Russians 106
- Rwandans 6
- SGBV 680
- Sabean Mandean 6
- Safe country of origin 5
- Saharawis 18
- Salafi 84
- Sale of children 25
- Sami 1
- San Bushmen 1
- Sanctions 184
- Scientologist 2
- Secondary movement 4
- Security forces 1,492
- Security situation 5,598
- Serb 65
- Serious non-political crime 33
- Seventh Day Adventist 39
- Sexual and reproductive rights 115
- Shabak 14
- Shamanism 1
- Shan 23
- Sharia law 54
- Shia 328
- Signatories and Parties 1
- Sikh 7
- Sindhis 3
- Single heads of household 2
- Sinhalese 6
- Slavs 8
- Small arms 68
- Smuggling of persons 52
- Social group discrimination 57
- Social group persecution 22
- Somalis 207
- Spontaneous return 5
- Standard of proof 3
- State of emergency 100
- State protection 29
- Statelessness 62
- Sufi 50
- Sunni 282
- Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 12
- Tajik 31
- Talysh 4
- Tamil 106
- Tatars 131
- Temporary admission 6
- Temporary protection 4
- Terrorism 2,140
- Threats / Intimidation 93
- Tibetan 717
- Tiv 2
- Torres Strait Islanders 1
- Torture 346
- Trafficking in persons 252
- Transit 7
- Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 202
- Travel documents 7
- Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 52
- Tuareg 75
- Turkmen 26
- Turks 8
- Tutsis 23
- Uighur 549
- Ukrainians 13
- Unaccompanied / Separated children 49
- Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 45
- Urban refugees 25
- Urueu-Wau-Wau 1
- Uzbek 174
- Vietnamese 4
- Visas 67
- Voluntary repatriation 135
- War crimes 592
- Well-founded fear of persecution 7
- Widowed persons 3
- Witchcraft 3
- Withdrawal of nationality 3
- Witnesses 55
- Women's rights 852
- Women-at-risk 240
- Work permits 11
- Yazīdī 26
- Zoroastrian 4
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