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.

As part of the CREDO project, the Hungarian Helsinki Committee (HHC) published a multidisciplinary training manual on the assessment of credibility in asylum procedures.

The Country Research Branch of Immigration New Zealand, which is part of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, has published a literature review  on the use of information sourced from social media in COI research.

The featured topics on Nigeria (Boko Haram) and Somalia (Al-Shabaab) have been updated.

A new 204 pages COI compilation on Iran has been published by ACCORD.

The Irish Legal Aid Board’s Refugee Documentation Centre kindly granted us permission to publish their Query Response Style Guide.

The featured topics on Dagestan (security situation) and Afghanistan (general security situation and events in Kabul) have been updated.

Anthony Good and Tobias Kelly from the University of Edinburgh have published a Best Practice Guide for expert witnesses providing country evidence in asylum and immigration cases in the United Kingdom.

The featured topics on Nigeria (Boko Haram) and Somalia (al-Shabaab) have been updated.

Two important publications on Afghanistan have been released: new UNHCR eligibility guidelines and UNAMA’s mid-year report on the protection of civilians in armed conflict. Both are available on ecoi.net: