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Sri Lanka
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- Deportation / Forcible return 102
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- Disappeared persons 117
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- Freedom of expression 379
- Freedom of information 185
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- Gender discrimination 32
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- Hindu 36
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- Human rights law 2
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- Illegitimate children 2
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- Independence of judiciary 30
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- Integration 5
- Internal armed conflict 117
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- Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 411
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- International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 16
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- Inuit 1
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- Kachin 1
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- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 46
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- Lutheran 1
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- Migrants 37
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- Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 51
- Minorities 57
- Minority rights 25
- Mon 1
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- Muslim 104
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- Non-refoulement 29
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- Political groups 19
- Political parties 58
- Political situation 108
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- Protection of civilian persons in time of war 78
- Protestant 7
- Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 30
- Public health 23
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- Reception 4
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- Refoulement 22
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- Refugees 86
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- Regional instruments 1
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- Reintegration 12
- Rejected asylum-seekers 41
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- Religious discrimination 51
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- Returnees 70
- Right to a nationality 8
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- Rohingya (Arakanese) 5
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- Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 72
- SGBV 93
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- Safe third country 10
- Sale of children 1
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- Security forces 60
- Security situation 140
- Serious non-political crime 12
- Seventh Day Adventist 9
- Sexual and reproductive rights 4
- Shan 2
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- Shia 20
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- Single procedure 1
- Sinhalese 90
- Smuggling of persons 15
- Social group discrimination 15
- Social group persecution 24
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- Standard of proof 6
- State of emergency 21
- State protection 20
- Statelessness 11
- Sunni 14
- Sur place persecution 2
- Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 3
- Tamil 796
- Tatars 2
- Temporary protection 2
- Terrorism 138
- Threats / Intimidation 17
- Tibetan 5
- Torture 43
- Trafficking in persons 72
- Transit 2
- Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 6
- Travel documents 6
- Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 2
- Tuareg 1
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- Unaccompanied / Separated children 9
- Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 15
- Unlawful departure 6
- Urban refugees 2
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- Visas 26
- Voluntary repatriation 31
- War crimes 82
- Well-founded fear of persecution 23
- Widowed persons 4
- Witnesses 9
- Women's rights 64
- Women-at-risk 44
- Work permits 4
- Yazīdī 1
- Zomi (Chin) 1
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