The report covers the following topics: political situation; inter-communal violence; freedom of speech; women; children; persons with disabilities; sexual orientation and gender identity; rule of law.

ACCORD published a December 2020 update in German language of the Turkey report of August.

The COI podcasts (in German language), a cooperation between ACCORD and the University of Heidelberg, talk about backgrounds that can help to understand country of origin information better.

ACCORD publishes a compilation on Turkey and EASO a report on anti-government elements in Afghanistan.

ACCORD published a series of query responses on FGM, in 13 countries.

ACCORD recently published three reports: a COI compilation on Ethiopia, on the current situation in Venezuela, on conscription and dedovshchina in Russia.

ACCORD is happy to have welcomed representatives of the COI community at the joint EASO/ACCORD conference on COI methodology in Vienna. There were two occasions for this event: The 20th anniversary of ACCORD and the publication of the revised EASO COI Report Methodology.

UNHCR and the Austrian Centre for Country of Origin and Asylum Research and Documentation (ACCORD), a department of the Austrian Red Cross, are partnering up for a streamlined content division between their protection information databases, Refworld and ecoi.net.

ACCORD published an Afghanistan report on the economic, humanitarian and security situation in three cities: Kabul, Herat and Mazar-e Sharif.

Issues covering the year 2017 are now available. The new overviews are extended to show more aspects of the data. The overviews are published by ACCORD and based on data collected by the Armed Conflict & Location Event Data Project (ACLED).