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

A new featured topic on Somalia is now available.

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.

The UNHCR Representation in Japan developed a machine translation service for RSD stakeholders to use ecoi.net in the Japanese language.

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

In November 2019, we updated our country priorities. These priorities define which sources are covered on ecoi.net, i.e. which documents you can expect to find for a country. The update is based on Austrian, European and global asylum statistics and affects what sources we cover for what countries.