Guinea-Bissau

Latest Report

Not Available

Immigration detainees

2019

Not Available

Detained children

2017

10

New asylum applications

2019

1,846

Refugees

2019

29,916

International migrants

2019

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Types of facilities used for migration-related detention
Administrative Ad Hoc Criminal Unknown

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IMMIGRATION AND DETENTION-RELATED STATISTICS

Total number of immigration detainees by year
Not Available
2019
Total number of detained minors
Not Available
2017
Criminal prison population
92
2012
Population
2,000,000
2020
International migrants
29,916
2019
Refugees
1,846
2019
4,850
2018
11,204
2017
9,259
2016
8,684
2015
8,684
2014
Ratio of refugees per 1000 inhabitants
4.91
2016
Total number of new asylum applications
10
2019
0
2016
Stateless persons
0
2016

SOCIO-ECONOMIC INDICATORS

DOMESTIC LAWS AND POLICIES

Legal tradition
Civil law
2017
Customary law
2017

INTERNATIONAL LAW

International treaties
Ratification Year
ICRMW, International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
2018
ICERD, International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
2010
ICESCR, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
1992
ICCPR, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
2010
CEDAW, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
1985
CAT, Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
2013
CRC, Convention on the Rights of the Child
1990
CRPD, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
2014
CRSR, Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
1976
CRSSP, Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons
2016
CTOCTP, Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children
2007
Individual complaints procedure
Acceptance Year
CEDAW, Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, 1999 2009
2009
ICCPR, First Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966 2013
2013
CAT, declaration under article 22 of the Convention 2013
2013
Ratio of complaints procedures accepted
Observation Date
3/7
2017
Regional legal instruments
Year of Ratification (Treaty) / Transposed (Directive) / Adoption (Regulation)
ACHPR, African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights 1985
1985
APRW, Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol) 2008
2008
Relevant recommendations of the UN Universal Periodic Review
Observation Date
No 2010
2017
No 2015
2017

INSTITUTIONAL INDICATORS