Sri Lanka

• Country News 191

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• Access to water 3
• Ahmadis 1
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 1
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• Asylum-migration nexus 3
• Asylum-seekers 4
• Buddhist 2
• Capacity building of state institutions 1
• Child soldiers 5
• Children's rights 9
• Children-at-risk 4
• Civil and political rights 4
• Civil war 15
• Combatants / Former combatants 5
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 2
• Conflict resolution 46
• Conflict situation 9
• Crimes against humanity 1
• Demobilization / Disarmament 7
• Disappeared persons 7
• Domestic violence 1
• Drug trafficking 1
• Economic, social and cultural rights 2
• Effective remedy 2
• Elections 11
• Emergency legislation 1
• Family reunification 1
• Freedom of assembly and association 2
• Freedom of expression 1
• Freedom of movement 3
• Gender discrimination 1
• Good governance 2
• HIV and AIDS 1
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 3
• Human rights law 1
• Humanitarian assistance 3
• IDP camps 14
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 1
• Impunity 4
• Income-generating projects 1
• Integration 2
• Internal armed conflict 22
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 68
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 1
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 12
• Livelihoods 6
• Mass exodus 1
• Maternal and child health care 3
• Mental health 2
• Migrant rights 2
• Migrants 6
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 1
• Minorities 4
• Minority rights 1
• Muslim 10
• Older persons 1
• Opposition 1
• Orderly return 3
• Peace process 1
• Persecution based on political opinion 1
• Persons with disabilities 1
• Police 2
• Political groups 1
• Political parties 3
• Political situation 9
• Prison or detention conditions 2
• Property restitution 2
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 2
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 15
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 1
• Public health 3
• Reconciliation 28
• Refugee seamen 1
• Refugees 12
• Reintegration 5
• Resettlement 11
• Return conditions 16
• Returnees 26
• Right to education 5
• Right to employment 2
• Right to food 2
• Right to health 3
• Right to justice 2
• Right to return 3
• SGBV 2
• Security situation 13
• Sexual and reproductive rights 1
• Sinhalese 4
• Spontaneous return 2
• State of emergency 1
• Tamil 47
• Terrorism 3
• Voluntary repatriation 3
• War crimes 5
• Women's rights 3
• 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