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 featured topics on Afghanistan, Dagestan, Somalia and Syria have been updated. CECC publishes annual human rights report on China.

Freedom House published two annual reports, “Freedom on the Net” and “Countries at the Crossroads”.

We published a new featured topic on the Boko Haram in Nigeria. And the featured topics on Somalia (al-Shabaab), on Pakistan (sectarian violence), and on Sudan and South Sudan (Abyei status) have been updated.

The featured topics on Afghanistan, Dagestan and Syria have been updated.

The US Department of State released its annual report on international religious freedom. This is the first edition covering a calendar year. The Country Reports on Terrorism have also been published.

The first COI report produced by the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) has been published. It focuses on Taliban recruitment strategies in Afghanistan. Along with the report, the EASO also published its methodology for COI reports.

ACCORD published a report on the situation of women in Chechnya, based on lectures by the experts Uwe Halbach and Svetlana Gannushkina. The report is available in German language only.

Amnesty International’s Annual Report 2012, as well as the US Department of State Country Reports on Human Rights Practice, both covering 2011, were released today.

Several updates to the ecoi.net user-interface are now online. You can now navigate through our full-text search with your browser’s back- & forward-buttons and link to search results. A “cite as” suggestion is available for each document and some design changes have been made. Read on for more.