Sri Lanka

• Abduction 1
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 1
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 4
• Asylum-seekers 1
• Buddhist 2
• Child soldiers 1
• Christian 2
• Disappeared persons 1
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 1
• Extrajudicial executions 2
• Hindu 1
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 1
• IDP camps 1
• Impunity 1
• Indigenous persons 1
• Internal armed conflict 1
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 4
• Maternal and child health care 1
• Minorities 12
• Minority rights 6
• Muslim 6
• Peace process 2
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 1
• Reconciliation 2
• Right to education 1
• Right to employment 1
• Right to justice 1
• Security forces 1
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 3
• Sinhalese 4
• Tamil 10
• Terrorism 1
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 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