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New issues of ACCORD’s overviews on conflict events based on ACLED data

With the latest quarterly releases, overviews for the full year 2016 are now available. The overviews are published by ACCORD and based on data collected by the Armed Conflict & Location Event Data Project (ACLED). Please note: The versions for some countries for the 2016 quarters 1-3 contained errors and will be replaced.

21 February 2017: ACCORD, ACLED, maps, our work

HRW publishes World Report 2017 and ACCORD publishes a report on Sri Lanka

Human Rights Watch published its annual World Report, covering events in 2016. ACCORD released a COI compilation on Sri Lanka.

13 January 2017: ACCORD, hrw, reports, sri lanka

UNHCR’s online course on COI

UNHCR and ACCORD have developed an e-learning course on country of origin information (COI). The course is built around a case study, and takes the learner through some of the main questions on COI research methodology, including source assessment.

16 November 2016: ACCORD, coi, our work, standards, training, unhcr

New ACCORD report on Pakistan

A new COI compilation on Pakistan has been published by ACCORD.

31 August 2016: ACCORD, pakistan, our work, reports

New reports on Afghanistan and Pakistan: ACCORD on Afghanistan; EASO on Pakistan; BFA Staatendokumentation on both countries

ACCORD published the documentation of a seminar with two experts on Afghanistan. EASO published a report on the security situation in Pakistan. And the COI Department of the Austrian Federal Office for Immigration and Asylum published a dossier on the foundations of the clan & tribal structure in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

29 July 2016: afghanistan, pakistan, ACCORD, EASO, bfa staatendokumentation, unsere arbeit, berichte

The April 2016 issue of The Researcher

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.

25 April 2016: ACCORD, asylum law, bangladesh, coi, europe, irish refugee council, RDC: the researcher, south sudan, unhcr, our work

ACCORD publishes overviews on conflict events based on ACLED data

ACCORD publishes a series of overviews on conflict events in selected countries. These overviews are based on data collected by the Armed Conflict & Location Event Data Project (ACLED).

10 February 2016: ACCORD, ACLED, maps, our work

New reports by EASO on security situation in Afghanistan and by ACCORD on Ethiopian domestic workers

The European Asylum Support Office (EASO) has published an update to its COI report on the security situation in Afghanistan. And ACCORD has published a report on Ethiopian female domestic workers in Ethiopia and abroad.

4 February 2016: ACCORD, afghanistan, EASO, ethiopia, reports, our work

New ACCORD report on Iran: women, children, LGBTI persons and persons with disabilities, as well as on “moral crimes”

A new 94 pages COI report on Iran has been published by ACCORD.

5 January 2016: ACCORD, iran, reports, our work

The ACCORD COI training manual is now also available in Spanish

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.

7 October 2015: ACCORD, coi, manual, our work, standards, training, unhcr