Seychelles

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No Data

Immigration detainees

Not Available

Detained children

2017

12,926

International migrants

2019

100,000

Population

2020

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Overview

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

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DETENTION, EXPULSION, AND INCARCERATION STATISTICS

Total number of detained minors
Not Available
2017
Criminal prison population
735
2014
Percentage of foreign prisoners
7.5
2014
Prison population rate (per 100,000 of national population)
799
2014

DEMOGRAPHICS AND IMMIGRATION-RELATED STATISTICS

Population
100,000
2020
96,000
2015
International migrants
12,926
2019
12,800
2015
International migrants as a percentage of the population
13.3
2015
Refugees
0
2016
25
2015
Stateless persons
0
2016

SOCIO-ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Gross Domestic Product per capita (in USD)
15,564
2014
Remittances to the country
14
2014
Net official development assistance (ODA) (in millions USD)
9.7
2014
Human Development Index Ranking (UNDP)
64 (High)
2015

DOMESTIC LAWS AND POLICIES

Legal tradition
Civil law
2017
Common law
2017

INTERNATIONAL LAW

International treaties
Ratification Year
VCCR, Vienna Convention on Consular Relations
1979
ICERD, International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
1978
ICESCR, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
1992
ICCPR, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
1992
CEDAW, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
1992
CAT, Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
1992
CRC, Convention on the Rights of the Child
1990
ICRMW, International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
1994
CRPD, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
2009
ICPED, International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
2017
CRSR, Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
1980
CTOCTP, Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children
2004
CTOCSP, Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
2004
Individual complaints procedure
Acceptance Year
ICCPR, First Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966 1992
1992
CEDAW, Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, 1999 2011
2011
CAT, declaration under article 22 of the Convention 2001
2001
Ratio of complaints procedures accepted
Observation Date
3/9
2017
Regional legal instruments
Year of Ratification (Treaty) / Transposed (Directive) / Adoption (Regulation)
ACHPR, African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights 1992
1992
ACRWC, African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child 1992
1992
APRW, Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol) 2006
2006
Relevant recommendations of the UN Universal Periodic Review
Observation Date
No 2011
2017
No 2016
2017

INSTITUTIONAL INDICATORS