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31 January 2025
SIERRA LEONE
List of Documents
1.
General Information and Maps
Source:
United Nations. Cartographic Section.
Date of Document:
September 2014
Accessed Date:
27 December 2017
Title:
Sierra Leone (Physiography)
Source:
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Sierra Leone. Social Security Around the World: Country Profiles.
Source:
International Social Security Association
Date of Document:
1 July 2022
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Sierra Leone. The World Factbook.
Source:
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Date of Document:
15 January 2025
Accessed Date:
20 January 2025
Title:
Sierra Leone. BTI 2024 Country Report.
Date of Document:
March 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Présentation de la Sierra Leone
Source:
France. Ministère des Affaires étrangères et du Développement international.
Date of Document:
15 January 2024
Accessed Date:
19 January 2024
Title:
Sierra Leone. Country Brief.
Source:
United Nations. World Food Programme.
Date of Document:
August 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Sierra Leone. Freetown: City Scoping Study.
Source:
African Cities Research consortium
Date of Document:
June 2021
Author:
Alexandre Apsan Frediani
Accessed Date:
11 January 2022
Title:
Sierra Leone. “They are forgetting about us”: The Long-term mental health impact of war and Ebola in Sierra Leone.
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
25 May 2021
Accessed Date:
11 January 2022
Title:
Sierra Leone. Civic Freedom Monitor.
Source:
International Center for Not-for-Profit Law
Date of Document:
2 October 2023
Accessed Date:
2 January 2024
Title:
COI Query Response. Sierra Leone: Major security, political and humanitarian developments in Sierra Leone.
Source:
European Union. European Union Agency for Asylum.
Date of Document:
26 July 2023
Accessed Date:
2 January 2024
Title:
Sierra Leone : traitement de la Drépanocytose
Source:
Swiss Refugee Council
Date of Document:
8 December 2022
Accessed Date:
2 January 2024
Date of Document:
May 2023
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Sierra Leone. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2023.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
22 April 2024
Accessed Date:
19 May 2024
Title:
Sierra Leone. The State of the World's Human Rights: April 2024.
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
23 April 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Sierra Leone. Freedom in the World 2024.
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Summary of Stakeholders' submissions on Sierra Leone
Code:
A/HRC/WG.6/38/SLE/3
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
25 February 2021
Accessed Date:
11 January 2022
Title:
National report submitted in accordance with paragraph 5 of the annex to Human Rights Council resolution 16/21: Sierra Leone
Code:
A/HRC/WG.6/38/SLE/1
Date of Document:
16 February 2021
Accessed Date:
11 January 2022
Title:
Compilation on Sierra Leone
Code:
A/HRC/WG.6/38/SLE/2
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
26 February 2021
Accessed Date:
11 January 2022
Title:
Sierra Leone: Steps forward and human rights challenges: Amnesty International submission for the UN Universal Periodic Review, 38th session of the UPR Working Group, 3-18 May 2021
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
16 November 2020
Accessed Date:
7 January 2021
Title:
Sierra Leone: Civil Unrest, DREF Operation-Final Report MDRSL012
Source:
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Date of Document:
18 December 2023
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Sierra Leone. Submission by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights' Compilation Report. Universal Periodic Review: 3rd Cycle, 38th Session.
Source:
United Nations. High Commissioner for Refugees
Date of Document:
October 2020
Accessed Date:
11 January 2022
Title:
Sierra Leone: Seven months after August's protests which turned violent in some locations, no justice yet for those injured or the families of those killed
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
20 March 2023
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
3.
Identification Documents and Citizenship
Title:
Sierra Leone Citizenship Act, 1973
Accessed Date:
5 December 2019
Title:
The Sierra Leone Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2006
Accessed Date:
3 April 2013
Title:
Sierra Leone: The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2017
Accessed Date:
5 December 2019
Title:
Birth certificates and national identity cards, including requirements and procedures, appearance and security features; document issued to replace a missing birth certificate; circumstances in which a Certified True Copy BC/99 is issued...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
19 October 2015
Accessed Date:
26 January 2016
Title:
Sierra Leone. U.S. Visa: Reciprocity and Civil Documents by Country.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Accessed Date:
20 January 2025
Title:
Report on Citizenship Law: Sierra Leone
Source:
European University Institute. European Union Democracy Observatory on Citizenship.
Date of Document:
May 2021
Accessed Date:
11 January 2022
4.
Political Activities and Organizations
Title:
About parliament; Election results. Sierra Leone: Parliament.
Source:
Inter-Parliamentary Union. Parline
Accessed Date:
14 January 2025
Title:
Republic of Sierra Leone. Election for President of 24 June 2023
Source:
International Foundation for Electoral Systems. Election Guide.
Accessed Date:
2 January 2024
Title:
Information on the Poro Society, including rituals and initation; ability to refuse initiation or leadership roles; availability of state protection (2015-July 2017)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
18 September 2017
Accessed Date:
29 January 2018
Title:
Sierra Leone 2023 Presidential, Parliamentary and Local Council Elections 2023: Final Report
Source:
European Union Election Observation Mission
Date of Document:
24 June 2023
Accessed Date:
2 January 2024
Title:
COI Query Response. Sierra Leone: Treatment of members of the National Grand Coalition party and of their relatives by the government.
Source:
European Union. European Union Agency for Asylum.
Date of Document:
26 March 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
5.
Gender, Domestic Violence and Children
Title:
Education for all girls in Sierra Leone
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
May 2023
Accessed Date:
3 January 2024
Title:
The Sexual Offences Act, 2012
Accessed Date:
23 December 2014
Title:
The Domestic Violence Act, 2007
Accessed Date:
22 November 2012
Title:
Information on Sisters United Against Female Genital Mutilation and Sisters United Against Female Circumcision in Freetown (2011-August 2015)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
24 August 2015
Accessed Date:
11 January 2016
Title:
Country Rountry Report by Sierra Leone On Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (1995) and the Outcome of the Twenty-Third Special Session of the General Assembly (2000)
Source:
Sierra Leone. Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children's Affairs.
Date of Document:
April 2019
Accessed Date:
5 December 2019
Title:
COI Query Response. Sierra Leone. Situation of women without a support network; access to housing, healthcare, and employment, including in Freetown.
Source:
European Union. European Union Agency for Asylum.
Date of Document:
16 August 2023
Accessed Date:
3 January 2024
Title:
Information on female genital mutilation (FGM) for married women; possibility to refuse FGM for married women and consequences of refusal; availability of state protection in case of refusal and access to support services in Freetown
Source:
European Union. European Union Agency for Asylum.
Date of Document:
10 November 2023
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Human Rights Watch Submission to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. List of Issues of Sierra Leone: 74th Pre-Sessional Working Group.
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
19 January 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Women's Rights Online in Sierra Leone: National Policy Gaps & Recommendations
Source:
Media Foundation for West Africa
Date of Document:
9 August 2023
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Les mutilations sexuelles féminines (MSF)
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
9 April 2018
Accessed Date:
18 March 2019
Title:
FGM in Sierra Leone: Key Findings
Date of Document:
September 2021
Accessed Date:
11 January 2022
Title:
Taking stock one year after Sierra Leone's gender violence ‘emergency'
Date of Document:
30 January 2020
Author:
Laura S. Martin; Simeon Koroma
Accessed Date:
7 January 2021
Title:
Corporal punishment of children in Sierra Leone.
Source:
End Violence Against Children/End Corporal Punishment
Date of Document:
May 2023
Accessed Date:
3 January 2024
Title:
COI Query Response. Sierra Leone: FGM/C; Brief overview on FGM/C in Sierra Leone; FGM/C practices among the Mende ethnic group; Support networks for women who refuse to perform FGM/C Practices.
Source:
European Union. European Asylum Support Office.
Date of Document:
13 August 2021
Accessed Date:
11 January 2022
Title:
The Prohibition of Child Marriage Act 2024
Date of Document:
17 May 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Sierra Leone. 2023 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor.
Source:
United States. Department of Labor.
Date of Document:
5 September 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Sierra Leone Acts to Ban Child Marriage
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
28 June 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
COI Query Response. Sierra Leone. Domestic violence, including prevalence, societal attitudes and treatment of victims, legislation, state of protection, access to support services.
Source:
European Union. European Union Agency for Asylum.
Date of Document:
17 August 2023
Accessed Date:
3 January 2024
Title:
Sierra Leone: Annex 1 Profiles of the 10 countries with the highest rates of child marriage
Source:
United Nations Population Fund
Date of Document:
March 2022
Accessed Date:
8 January 2024
Title:
Sierra Leone. State-Sponsored Homophobia 2019.
Source:
International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association
Date of Document:
March 2019
Author:
Lucas Ramón Mendos
Accessed Date:
5 December 2019
Title:
Sierra Leone. Our Identities Under Arrest: A global overview on the enforcement of laws criminalizing consensual same-sex sexual acts between adults and diverse gender expressions.
Source:
International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association
Date of Document:
November 2023
Author:
Kellyn Botha et al.
Editor:
Lucas Ramón Mendos
Accessed Date:
8 January 2024
7.
Criminality and Corruption
Title:
Sierra Leone: Tier 2. Trafficking in Persons Report 2024.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
24 June 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
OSAC Country Security Report. Sierra Leone.
Source:
United States. Overseas Security Advisory Council.
Date of Document:
2 July 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Sierra Leone. Global Organized Crime Index.
Source:
Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
Accessed Date:
3 January 2024
Title:
Recent political violence in Sierra Leone exposes the country's post-conflict myth
Source:
Gender Justice and Security Hub
Date of Document:
22 August 2022
Accessed Date:
3 January 2024
Title:
Symbiosis in violence: A case study from Sierra Leone of the international humanitarian law implications of parties to the conflict engaging in organized crime
Source:
International Review of the Red Cross
Accessed Date:
3 January 2024
Title:
Sierra Leone: Corruption and anti-corruption
Source:
Chr. Michelsen Institute; Transparency International
Date of Document:
September 2023
Author:
David Olusegun Sotola; Roberto Martinez B. Kukutschka
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
8.
Military Service - (No items in this section)
9.
Judiciary, Legal and Penal Systems
Title:
Sierra Leone's Constitution of 1991, Reinstated in 1996, with Amendments through 2013
Source:
Sierra Leone; Comparative Constitutions Project
Accessed Date:
20 January 2023
Title:
Update: Sierra Leone Legal System and Legal Research
Date of Document:
December 2023
Accessed Date:
9 January 2024
10.
Police and Security Forces
Title:
A Force for Good? Restrictions on Peaceful Assembly and Impunity for Excessive use of Force by the Sierra Leone Police
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
3 July 2018
Accessed Date:
18 March 2019
Title:
Sierra Leone. The Law on Police Use of Force Worldwide.
Source:
University of Pretoria. Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa.
Accessed Date:
9 January 2024
Title:
Sierra Leone. Press Freedom Index 2024.
Source:
Reporters Without Borders
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Report: State of Media Freedom in Sierra Leone 2022
Source:
Media Foundation for West Africa
Accessed Date:
3 January 2024
Title:
Sierra Leone must protect journalists, not cut Internet during elections
Source:
Reporters Without Borders
Date of Document:
21 June 2023
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Sierra Leone. International Religious Freedom Report for 2023.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
26 June 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
COI Query Response. Sierra Leone: Conversion from Islam to Christianity.
Source:
European Union. European Union Agency for Asylum.
Date of Document:
10 June 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
13.
Nationality, Ethnicity and Race - (No items in this section)
14.
Exit/Entry and Freedom of Movement - (No items in this section)
15.
Labour, Employment and Unions - (No items in this section)
16.
Other - (No items in this section)
The following changes have been made to the previous package dated 31 May 2024:
Title:
Sierra Leone. The World Factbook.
Source:
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Date of Document:
17 January 2024
URL:
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/sierra-leone/
Accessed Date:
19 January 2024
Title:
BTI 2022 Country Report — Sierra Leone
URL:
https://bti-project.org/en/reports/country-report/SLE
Accessed Date:
4 January 2023
Title:
Sierra Leone. Country Brief.
Source:
United Nations. World Food Programme.
Date of Document:
October 2023
URL:
https://reliefweb.int/attachments/76e41cb9-09fe-4f66-bc28-d3a75b937801/202310_CountryBrief_SierraLeone.pdf
Accessed Date:
8 January 2024
Title:
Sierra Leone. Amnesty International Report 2022/23: The State of the World's Human Rights.
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
27 March 2023
URL:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/POL1056702023ENGLISH.pdf
Accessed Date:
2 January 2024
Title:
Sierra Leone. Freedom in the World 2023.
URL:
https://freedomhouse.org/country/sierra-leone/freedom-world/2023
Accessed Date:
2 January 2024
Title:
Sierra Leone: Civil Unrest - Emergency Plan of Action (EPoA), DREF Operation n° MDRSL012
Source:
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Date of Document:
25 August 2022
URL:
https://reliefweb.int/report/sierra-leone/sierra-leone-civil-unrest-emergency-plan-action-epoa-dref-operation-ndeg-mdrsl012
Accessed Date:
4 January 2023
Title:
Sierra Leone. U.S. Visa: Reciprocity and Civil Documents by Country.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
URL:
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/Visa-Reciprocity-and-Civil-Documents-by-Country/SierraLeone.html
Accessed Date:
19 January 2024
Title:
About parliament; Election results. Sierra Leone: Parliament.
Source:
Inter-Parliamentary Union. Parline
URL:
https://data.ipu.org/node/153/basic-information/about-parliament?chamber_id=13524
Accessed Date:
2 January 2024
Title:
Sierra Leone. 2022 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor.
Source:
United States. Department of Labor.
URL:
https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ILAB/child_labor_reports/tda2022/Sierra-Leone.pdf
Accessed Date:
3 January 2024
Title:
Sierra Leone: Tier 2. Trafficking in Persons Report 2023.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
June 2023
URL:
https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-trafficking-in-persons-report/sierra-leone/
Accessed Date:
3 January 2024
Title:
OSAC Country Security Report. Sierra Leone.
Source:
United States. Overseas Security Advisory Council.
Date of Document:
19 November 2021
URL:
https://www.osac.gov/Content/Report/4259b100-2d1e-4b49-ab97-1d166b775493
Accessed Date:
11 January 2022
Title:
Sierra Leone. Press Freedom Index 2023.
Source:
Reporters Without Borders
URL:
https://rsf.org/en/country/sierra-leone
Accessed Date:
3 January 2024
Title:
Sierra Leone. International Religious Freedom Report for 2022.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
15 May 2023
URL:
https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-report-on-international-religious-freedom/sierra-leone/
Accessed Date:
3 January 2024
Title:
Sierra Leone. L'Encyclopédie en ligne.
URL:
http://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/cartes/Sierra_Leone/1306134
Accessed Date:
4 January 2017
Title:
Sierra Leone. Social Security Programs Throughout the World: Africa, 2019.
Source:
United States. Social Security Administration.
Date of Document:
September 2019
URL:
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/progdesc/ssptw/2018-2019/africa/sierra-leone.html
Accessed Date:
5 December 2019
Title:
Most Sierra Leoneans approve of measures against sexual violence, want more to be done
Date of Document:
8 February 2021
Author:
Fredline M'Cormack-Hale; Josephine Appiah-Nyameke Sanny
URL:
https://www.afrobarometer.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/ad424-sierra_leoneans_urge_further_action_on_sexual_violence-afrobarometer_dispatch-6feb21.pdf
Accessed Date:
11 January 2022
Title:
Submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child Review of Sierra Leone. 90th Pre-Session
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
2 July 2021
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/07/02/submission-committee-rights-child-review-sierra-leone
Accessed Date:
11 January 2022
Title:
My Body. My Decision. My Rights: Reducing Child early and forced marriage in Sierra Leone.
Source:
Save the children
Date of Document:
February 2021
URL:
https://sierraleone.savethechildren.net/sites/sierraleone.savethechildren.net/files/library/CEFM%20formative%20researches%20-%20REPORT%20FV1.pdf
Accessed Date:
11 January 2022
Title:
Adapting through Covid-19: October 2020 lessons from teenage pregnancy programmes in Sierra Leone.
Source:
Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium
Date of Document:
October 2020
Author:
Stephanie Buell; Clare Castillejo
URL:
https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/SLRC-Covid19-BP-Sep20-Proof07.pdf
Accessed Date:
11 January 2022
Title:
We used performing arts to map out gender violence in Sierra Leone. What we found.
Date of Document:
14 July 2021
Author:
Aisha Fofana Ibrahim et al.
URL:
https://theconversation.com/we-used-performing-arts-to-map-out-gender-violence-in-sierra-leone-what-we-found-164167
Accessed Date:
4 January 2023
Title:
Sierra Leone publisher Chernoh Alpha Baf threatened with death, charges of treason
Source:
Committee to Protect Journalists
Date of Document:
31 May 2022
URL:
https://cpj.org/2022/05/sierra-leone-publisher-chernoh-alpha-bah-threatened-with-death-charges-of-treason/
Accessed Date:
4 January 2023
Title:
Sierra Leone (Physiography)
Source:
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
URL:
https://maps.lib.utexas.edu/maps/africa/sierra_leone_physio-2005.jpg
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Sierra Leone. Social Security Around the World: Country Profiles.
Source:
International Social Security Association
Date of Document:
1 July 2022
URL:
https://www.issa.int/node/195543?country=967
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Date of Document:
May 2023
URL:
https://www.asylos.eu/Handlers/Download.ashx?IDMF=3e7ee39c-29e6-4bce-9a69-20cf9d6f8804
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Sierra Leone: Seven months after August's protests which turned violent in some locations, no justice yet for those injured or the families of those killed
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
20 March 2023
URL:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/03/sierra-leone-seven-months-after-augusts-protests-which-turned-violent-in-some-locations-no-justice-yet-for-those-injured-or-the-families-of-those-killed/
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
COI Query Response. Sierra Leone: Treatment of members of the National Grand Coalition party and of their relatives by the government.
Source:
European Union. European Union Agency for Asylum.
Date of Document:
26 March 2024
URL:
https://coi.euaa.europa.eu/administration/easo/PLib/2024_03_EUAA_COI_Query_Response_Q26_Sierra%20Leone_National_Grand_Coalition.pdf
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Information on female genital mutilation (FGM) for married women; possibility to refuse FGM for married women and consequences of refusal; availability of state protection in case of refusal and access to support services in Freetown
Source:
European Union. European Union Agency for Asylum.
Date of Document:
10 November 2023
URL:
https://www.ecoi.net/en/file/local/2100528/2023_11_EUAA_COI_Query_Response_Q58_Sierra_Leone_Female_Genital_Mutilation.pdf
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Human Rights Watch Submission to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. List of Issues of Sierra Leone: 74th Pre-Sessional Working Group.
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
19 January 2024
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/01/19/sierra-leone-submission-un-committee-economic-social-and-cultural-rights
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Women's Rights Online in Sierra Leone: National Policy Gaps & Recommendations
Source:
Media Foundation for West Africa
Date of Document:
9 August 2023
URL:
https://www.mfwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Advocacy-Paper-on-Women-Rights-Online-reprot-in-Sierra-Leone-August-2023.pdf
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
The Prohibition of Child Marriage Act 2024
Date of Document:
17 May 2024
URL:
https://archive.gazettes.africa/archive/sl/2024/sl-government-gazette-supplement-dated-2024-05-17-no-40.pdf
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Sierra Leone Acts to Ban Child Marriage
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
28 June 2024
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/06/28/sierra-leone-acts-ban-child-marriage
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Sierra Leone: Corruption and anti-corruption
Source:
Chr. Michelsen Institute; Transparency International
Date of Document:
September 2023
Author:
David Olusegun Sotola; Roberto Martinez B. Kukutschka
URL:
https://www.u4.no/publications/overview-of-corruption-and-anti-corruption-in-sierra-leone-2023.pdf
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Sierra Leone must protect journalists, not cut Internet during elections
Source:
Reporters Without Borders
Date of Document:
21 June 2023
URL:
https://rsf.org/en/sierra-leone-must-protect-journalists-not-cut-internet-during-elections
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
COI Query Response. Sierra Leone: Conversion from Islam to Christianity.
Source:
European Union. European Union Agency for Asylum.
Date of Document:
10 June 2024
URL:
https://coi.euaa.europa.eu/administration/easo/PLib/2024_6_EUAA_COI_Query_Response_Q35_Sierra_Leone_Converts_from_Islam.pdf
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
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