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.

Asylum Research Centre (ARC) released a comparative analysis of the USDOS human rights reports of the years 2016 to 2019.

The Dutch Advisory Committee on Migration Affairs in July released an extensive report with recommendations on the use of COI. For the reports, current practices in Austria, Poland and the UK have been examined along with the Netherlands'.

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.

The US Department of State released its annual reports on terrorism and those on human trafficking, covering 2019.

UNHCR released its annual Global Trends report, covering displacement that occurred during 2019. The report says the number of people forcibly displaced was 79.5 million at the end of 2019, leaving the population of forcibly displaced at another record high.

The US Department of State released its annual report on the freedom of religion, covering 2019.

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