The Researcher is published two times a year by the Refugee Documentation Centre (RDC) in Ireland. It is a publication which combines academic papers, summaries of caselaw, guides to new legislation, reports of conferences, articles on RDC services and items of country of origin information.

The US Department of State released its annual report on international religious freedom covering 2014.

The revised edition of the training manual “Researching Country of Origin Information“, published by ACCORD in 2013, is now available in Spanish. We thank UNHCR for commissioning the translation.

A new 84 pages COI report on Iran has been published by ACCORD. And the COI department of the Austrian Federal Office for Immigration and Asylum has published a report on a fact-finding mission to Pakistan.

The following is a guest post by Elisa Mason, originally published on the Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog.

The European Asylum Support Office (EASO) has published a COI report on Pakistan.

The Belgian COI unit CEDOCA published a Style Guide for its COI products.

A new COI report on Iran has been published by ACCORD.

The US Department of State released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, covering 2014.

The US Department of State released its annual report on terrorism and Freedom House published its annual Nations in Transit.