Sri Lanka

• Case Law 37

• Abduction 1
• Airports 1
• Appeal / Right to appeal 3
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 6
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 1
• Asylum policy 1
• Asylum-seekers 1
• Ceasefire 2
• Changes of circumstances in home country 2
• Christian 1
• Combatants / Former combatants 1
• Complementary forms of protection 2
• Country of origin information (COI) 2
• Credibility assessment 3
• Crimes against humanity 1
• Deportation / Forcible return 5
• Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 4
• Exclusion clauses 2
• Family reunification 1
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 8
• Freedom of religion 1
• Fresh / New claim 2
• Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 1
• Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims 2
• Mental health 3
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 1
• Non-state agents of persecution 3
• Persecution based on political opinion 16
• Persecution of family members 2
• Political asylum 1
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 1
• Pre-entry procedures 1
• Public health 1
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 4
• Reception 1
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 1
• Rejected asylum-seekers 3
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 1
• Right to employment 1
• Right to family life 6
• Right to liberty and security 1
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 1
• SGBV 2
• Security situation 2
• Tamil 17
• Unlawful departure 1
• War crimes 1
• Well-founded fear of persecution 1
• Women-at-risk 1

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• Amnesty International - Sri Lanka
• Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)
• Centre for Poverty Analysis (CEPA)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Sri Lanka
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) - Sri Lanka
• Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) - Sri Lanka
• Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) - Sri Lanka
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC in Sri Lanka
• International Crisis Group (ICG) - Sri Lanka
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) - Sri Lanka
• National Peace Council of Sri Lanka (NPC)
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Sri Lanka
• Peace and Conflict Timeline (PACT)
• ReliefWeb - Sri Lanka
• Sri Lanka Ministry of Defence: Media Centre for National Security (MCNS)
• UNHCR - Sri Lanka
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Sri Lanka
• United Nations News Centre - News Focus: Sri Lanka
• United States Department of State - Sri Lanka
• World Food Programme (WFP) - Sri Lanka
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Sri Lanka