Immigration & Asylum Resources: Country Conditions Resources

Not comprehensive but does provide historical timeline and snapshot of current human rights abuses in various countries. Browse by country name.

Nonprofit organization which profiles human rights abuses in works to defend and protect human rights on a global scale. Their website offers reports which are searchable both by county and by legal issue. Note: the countries are organized by Region rather than alphabetically. Also review the “World Reports” which offer chapters on each country: https://www.hrw.org/previous-world-reports

Provides links to Human Rights Condition resources including: the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review reports, Annual Country Reports from the US Department of State, Human Rights Watch & Amnesty International, Additional Country reports from the African Commission on Human Rights, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Thematic Reports (reproductive health, education, working conditions etc.) from the Inter-American Commission, UN Treaty body documents, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the US State Department report on International Religious Freedom and Trafficking in Persons report and miscellaneous reports from Refword, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the International Committee of the Red Cross

Organization that conducts research into the ways in which medical/scientific evidence and testimony from health professionals can be used to stop human rights violations or assist those seeking asylum. Research reports and articles are searchable by issue or by country.

Reports of human rights violations from the perspective of the LGBT community. Browse by region

Focus on the lives and conditions faced by children. Search by subject, region, or type of report. Search by keyword to look for a specific country.

Reports on incidents of children used in warfare, minimum military recruitment ages by country and reports on the status of OPAC (Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement
of children in armed conflict) in each country.

Offers advice on how to tailor your country conditions report to your client's situation/claims when preparing an asylum application.

Working and policy papers on a variety of topics ranging from education and climate change to labor and economics.

Subcommittee of the Organization of American States. Reports are issued on a different country each year.