Sri Lanka

Country Information 1
Legal Information 517

1951 Refugee Convention 2
Abduction 14
Abuse of psychiatry 1
Access to procedures 3
Acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations 1
Administrative law 1
Agents of persecution 3
Airports 5
Appeal / Right to appeal 21
Arbitrary arrest and detention 63
Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 16
Asylum policy 4
Asylum-seekers 9
Border controls 1
Buddhist 1
Burden of proof 3
Catholic 1
Ceasefire 15
Cessation clauses 3
Changes of circumstances in home country 26
Child soldiers 1
Children's rights 2
Christian 2
Citizenship / Nationality law 2
Civil and political rights 1
Civil war 2
Combatants / Former combatants 17
Complementary forms of protection 14
Conflict situation 3
Convention against Torture (CAT) 6
Convention refugee 18
Country of origin information (COI) 84
Credibility assessment 50
Crimes against humanity 15
Criminal justice 21
Decision on admissibility 6
Denial of refugee status 3
Deportation / Forcible return 75
Derivative status 2
Disappeared persons 2
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 15
Drug trafficking 10
EU Qualification Directive 1
Economic, social and cultural rights 1
Effective protection 9
Effective remedy 4
Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 83
Exclusion clauses 31
Expulsion 24
Extrajudicial executions 2
False documents 1
Family law 1
Family reunification 5
Flight by land, air or sea 2
Forced labour 3
Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 74
Freedom of assembly and association 1
Freedom of conscience 1
Freedom of expression 3
Freedom of movement 1
Freedom of religion 3
Freedom of speech 3
Fresh / New claim 4
Gender-based persecution 3
Generalized violence 2
Grounds for persecution 5
Hindu 2
Human rights activists 1
Human rights and fundamental freedoms 2
Humanitarian protection (including tolerated stay) 2
Illegal entry 3
Immigration Detention 12
Immigration law 1
Inclusion clauses 2
Independence of judiciary 3
Internal armed conflict 6
Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 24
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 1
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 2
Involuntary repatriation 2
Jurisdiction 2
Legal representation / Legal aid 3
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 4
Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims 9
Mental health 15
Mentally disadvantaged persons 1
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 9
Minorities 2
Minority rights 4
Moor 1
Muslim 11
National security / Public order 5
Naturalization 1
Non-refoulement 23
Non-state agents of persecution 39
Older persons 3
Passports 4
Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 1
Persecution based on nationality 2
Persecution based on political opinion 191
Persecution of family members 15
Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 4
Persons with disabilities 2
Police 6
Political asylum 2
Political groups 2
Political parties 6
Political situation 1
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 13
Pre-entry procedures 3
Pre-trial detention 1
Prison or detention conditions 1
Prosecution vs persecution 4
Public health 2
Racial / Ethnic persecution 68
Reception 2
Refoulement 19
Refugee / Asylum law 1
Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 3
Refugees 4
Refugees sur place 3
Rejected asylum-seekers 23
Religious discrimination 1
Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 11
Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 1
Residence permits / Residency 3
Returnees 1
Right to education 2
Right to employment 2
Right to family life 24
Right to justice 5
Right to liberty and security 8
Right to life 4
Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 20
SGBV 7
Safe country of origin 1
Safe third country 10
Security forces 2
Security situation 16
Serious non-political crime 12
Single heads of household 1
Single procedure 1
Sinhalese 8
Smuggling of persons 4
Social group persecution 20
Standard of proof 6
State protection 10
Sur place persecution 1
Tamil 216
Temporary protection 2
Terrorism 8
Threats / Intimidation 4
Torture 3
Trafficking in persons 1
Travel documents 2
Unlawful departure 5
Visas 10
Voluntary repatriation 2
War crimes 5
Well-founded fear of persecution 20
Widowed persons 1
Witnesses 4
Women-at-risk 7

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