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6 November 2009
Nigeria: Information on the availability of psychiatric treatment in Nigeria, Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre, 30 October 2009
Pakistan: Information on whether there is state protection from non-state agents of persecution in Pakistan and the effectiveness of police protection for owners of shops targeted by Islamic extremists, Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre, 30 October 2009
Pakistan: Information on whether owners of music and/or DVD and/or video shops have been attacked or threatened by Taliban or other extremists groups, Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre, 30 October 2009
Iran: Information on a group called Daftar Tahkim Vahdat/Daftar-e Tahkim-e Vahdat/Office for Strengthening Unity/Office for consolidating unity, Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre, 3 November 2009
Iran: Current human rights situation in Iran, Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre, 2 November 2009
Iraq: Role of cooks, clerks and drivers in military and security apparatus of Saddam Hussein's regime, Austrian Centre for Country of Origin and Asylum Research and Documentation (ACCORD), 29 October 2009
Liberia: Treatment of Liberian nationals who belong to the Fula ethnic group (including denial of right of entry to the country), Austrian Centre for Country of Origin and Asylum Research and Documentation (ACCORD), 27 October 2009
Kyrgyzstan: Why is new Religious Education Law being hurried?, Forum 18, 6 November 2009
5 November 2009
Kazakhstan: "They can meet and pray to God, but the Law says they have to register", Forum 18, 5 November 2009
UNHCR's 10-Point Plan in Central America, Western Africa, Eastern Africa and Asia - A three-year project, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, October 2009
El Plan de Acción de los 10 Puntos del ACNUR en Centroamérica, África Occidental, África Oriental y Asia: Un proyecto a tres años, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, October 2009
Conferencia Regional sobre Protección de Refugiados y Migración Internacional en las Américas, "Consideraciones de Protección en el contexto de la Migración Mixta" (San José, Costa Rica, 19-20 de noviembre de 2009), UN High Commissioner for Refugees, 13 October 2009
Regional Conference on Refugee Protection and International Migration in the Americas, "Protection Considerations in the Context of Mixed Migration" (San José, Costa Rica, 19-20 November 2009), UN High Commissioner for Refugees, 13 October 2009
Venezuela: Accelerating the Bolivarian Revolution, International Crisis Group (ICG), 5 November 2009
Australian Citizenship Regulations 2007 (as amended up to SLI 2009 No. 288), National Legislative Bodies, 25 June 2007
The Identity Cards Act 2006 (Prescribed Information) Regulations 2009, National Legislative Bodies, 19 October 2009
The Identity Cards Act 2006 (Provision of Information without Consent) Regulations 2009, National Legislative Bodies, 19 October 2009
4 November 2009
Report on Human Rights Developments in Timor-Leste: 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009 - Rejecting Impunity: Accountability for Human Rights Violations Past and Present, UN Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT), 2009
Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under articles 16 and 17 of the Covenant : concluding observations of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights : Cambodia, UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR), 12 June 2009
Consideration of reports submitted by States parties in accordance with articles 16 and 17 of the Covenant : concluding observations of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights : United Kingdom of Great Britain and Nothern Ireland, the Crown Dependencies and the Overseas Dependent Territories, UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR), 12 June 2009
Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under articles 16 and 17 of the Covenant : [concluding observations of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights] : United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Crown Dependencies and the Overseas Dependent Territories, UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR), 23 July 2009
Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under articles 16 and 17 of the Covenant : concluding observations of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights : Australia, UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR), 12 June 2009
Report of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission : note / by the President of the General Assembly, UN General Assembly, 29 October 2009
"The Common European Asylum System - A vision for the future", Statement by Volker Türk, Director of International Protection (Stockholm, 3 November 2009, Conference on 'The Common European Asylum System: Future Challenges and Opportunities'), UN High Commissioner for Refugees, 3 November 2009
Map of Zimbabwe: Political and Administrative Boundaries, as Updated in 2008, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), 5 October 2009
Map of Angola - Democratic Republic of Congo Expulsions: Areas of Return, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), 22 October 2009
Map of Angola: Population Movement, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), 28 October 2009
Nagorno-Karabakh: "If they violate the law by meeting together for religious purposes, they will be fined", Forum 18, 3 November 2009
3 November 2009
Kampala Declaration on Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons in Africa, African Union, 23 October 2009
Azerbaijan: Article 19 Launches Report on the Right to Access to Information, Article 19, 3 November 2009
Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights : consideration of reports submitted by States parties in accordance with article 16 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights : Replies by the Government of Chad to the list of issues (E/C.12/TCD/Q/3) to be taken up in connection with the consideration of the third periodic report of Chad concerning the rights referred to in articles 1 to 15 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (E/C.12/TCD/3), UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR), 20 August 2009
Consideration of reports submitted by State parties under article 40 of the Covenant : International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights : Libyan Arab Jamahiriya : Information received from the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya on follow-up to the concluding observations of the Human Rights Committee (CCPR/C/LBY/CO/4), UN Human Rights Committee (HRC), 25 August 2009
Replies to the list of issues (CCPR/C/HRV/Q/2) to be taken up in connection with the consideration of the 2nd periodic report of Croatia (CCPR/C/HRV/2), UN Human Rights Committee (HRC), 28 August 2009
Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 40 of the Covenant : International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights : France : Information provided by the Government of France on the follow-up to the concluding observations of the Human rights Committee (CCPR/C/FRA/CO/4), UN Human Rights Committee (HRC), 28 August 2009
Map of UNFICYP Deployment, November 2009, UN Cartographic Section, November 2009
Spain - Adding Insult to Injury: Police Impunity Two Years on, Amnesty International, 3 November 2009
Voting Together: Why Afghanistan’s 2009 Elections were (and were not) a Disaster, Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU), November 2009
Report of the Secretary-General on the request of Nepal for United Nations assistance in support of its peace process, UN Security Council, 26 October 2009
Report of the Secretary-General on developments in Guinea-Bissau and on the activities of the United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office in that country, UN Security Council, 22 October 2009
Russia: Government Must Respect Recommendations of UN Human Rights Committee on Free Expression, Article 19, 2 November 2009
Shades of Red: China’s Debate over North Korea, International Crisis Group (ICG), 2 November 2009
2 November 2009
JL v. Secretary of State for the Home Department, United Kingdom: Court of Session (Scotland), 27 October 2009
HH v. Secretary of State for the Home Department, United Kingdom: Court of Session (Scotland), 6 October 2009
Security Council resolution 1893 (2009) [on extension of measures imposed by Security Council resolutions 1572 (2004) and 1643 (2005) on sanctions against Côte d'Ivoire and on extension of the mandate of the UN Group of Experts], UN Security Council, 29 October 2009
IR v. Secretary of State for the Home Department, United Kingdom: Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC), 30 October 2009
Comments of the Government of Serbia on the Second Opinion of the Advisory Committee on the Implementation of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities by Serbia (received on 30 September 2009), Council of Europe: Secretariat of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, 26 October 2009
Operational Guidance Note: Sudan, United Kingdom: Home Office, 2 November 2009
Sudan: Article 19 Launches its State-by-State Media Assessment, Article 19, 2 November 2009
Report of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, UN General Assembly, 2009
Written replies by the Government of Turkey to the list of issues (CRC/C/OPAC/TUR/Q/1) to be taken up in connection with the consideration of the initial report of Turkey under article 8, paragraph 1, of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (CRC/C/OPAC/TUR/1), UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC), 2 September 2009
No Refuge: Migrants in Greece, Human Rights Watch, 1 November 2009
Pakistan: Whether supporters, members or active members of Jamhoori Watan Party, Balochistan, are at risk of ill-treatment. Past ill-treatment of supporters, members or active members of Jamhoori Watan Party, Balochistan, Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre, 28 October 2009
Afghanistan: Any clear information about risks to people who run foul of Taliban and also the local commander (who also happens to be a local administrator). What are the risks to a potential victim of Taliban revenge, or revenge from a local commander?, Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre, 27 October 2009
Afghanistan: Reports about the current security situation in Kabul, Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre, 22 October 2009
Afghanistan: UN reports about returning failed asylum seekers to Afghanistan, Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre, 27 October 2009
Peru: Information on treatment of indigenous communities by the guerrillas and authorities and counter-terrorists/paramilitaries groups, Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre, 14 October 2009
Statement by the President of the Security Council [made on behalf of the Security Council, at the 6211th meeting, 29 October 2009, in connection with the Council's consideration of the item entitled "The situation in Afghanistan"], UN Security Council, 29 October 2009
30 October 2009
The Researcher, October 2009, Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre, October 2009
Submission by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights' Compilation Report - Universal Periodic Review: the Republic of the Fiji Islands, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, September 2009
Submission by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights' Compilation Report - Universal Periodic Review: Bosnia and Herzegovina, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, September 2009
Submission by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights' Compilation Report - Universal Periodic Review (Excerpts of Treaty Body Concluding Observations and Special Procedure Reports): Bosnia and Herzegovina, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, September 2009
Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 9 of the Convention : concluding observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination : Colombia, UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), 28 August 2009
Bayatyan v. Armenia, Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights, 27 October 2009
Stepanyan v. Armenia, Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights, 27 October 2009
Karapetyan v. Armenia, Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights, 27 October 2009
Andrews v. United Kingdom, Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights, 29 September 2009
Belarus: "To prevent them from continuing their worship service", Forum 18, 30 October 2009
Status of internally displaced persons and refugees from Abkhazia, Georgia and the Tskhinvali region/South Ossetia, Georgia : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly, UN General Assembly, 30 September 2009
Lost in Transit: Insufficient Protection for Unaccompanied Migrant Children at Roissy Charles de Gaulle Airport, Human Rights Watch, 29 October 2009
Statement by the President of the Security Council [made on behalf of the Security Council, at the 6207th meeting, 28 October 2009, in connection with the Council's consideration of the item entitled "Peace consolidation in West Africa"], UN Security Council, 28 October 2009
Letter dated 30 September 2009 from the Acting Chairman of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1373 (2001) concerning counter-terrorism addressed to the President of the Security Council, UN Security Council, 30 September 2009
Solutions to the Historic Violation of Indigenous Rights Will Only Be Found through Respectful Dialogue, in Good Faith, with Indigenous Peoples, Amnesty International, 7 August 2009
29 October 2009
Reports submitted by States parties under article 9 of the Convention : International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination : 6th to 8th periodic reports of States parties due in 2008 : addendum : Slovak Republic, UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), 18 September 2009
Prosecutor v. Issa Hassan Sesay, Morris Kallon and Augustine Gbao (the RUF accused) (Appeal judgment), Special Court for Sierra Leone, 26 October 2009
The Michigan Guidelines on Protection Elsewhere, University of Michigan Law School, 3 January 2007
Femmes réfugiées, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, 25 April 2005
Rapport sur les cinq engagements du Haut Commissaire à l'égard des femmes réfugiées, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, 13 June 2005
Les recommandations de Michigan sur la protection ailleurs, University of Michigan Law School, 3 January 2007
Note sur le HCR et les apatrides, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, 2 June 1995
Questions relatives à la sécurité physique dans le contexte du rapatriement librement consenti, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, 7 June 2004
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