Sri Lanka

• Case Law 45
• Country Profiles 1
• Query Responses 30

• Abduction 3
• Airports 1
• Anti-terrorism law 1
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 6
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 4
• Asylum-seekers 3
• Buddhist 1
• Civil war 2
• Combatants / Former combatants 2
• Complementary forms of protection 1
• Conflict resolution 1
• Country of origin information (COI) 17
• Credibility assessment 6
• Disappeared persons 1
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 5
• Effective protection 3
• Elections 2
• Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 1
• Extrajudicial executions 1
• Flight by land, air or sea 1
• Forced labour 1
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 7
• Freedom of assembly and association 1
• Freedom of expression 1
• Freedom of information 1
• Freedom of religion 1
• Freedom of speech 1
• Generalized violence 2
• Human rights activists 1
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 1
• Human rights monitors 1
• Independence of judiciary 1
• Internal armed conflict 2
• Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 2
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 4
• Minorities 2
• Minority rights 4
• Moor 1
• Muslim 5
• Non-state agents of persecution 6
• Older persons 2
• Persecution based on political opinion 39
• Persecution of family members 7
• Police 2
• Political groups 1
• Political parties 4
• Political situation 2
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 2
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 1
• Public health 1
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 21
• Rejected asylum-seekers 1
• Religious discrimination 1
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 4
• Returnees 1
• Safe third country 1
• Security situation 1
• Sinhalese 3
• Social group persecution 9
• State protection 4
• Tamil 30
• Terrorism 1
• Threats / Intimidation 2
• Torture 2
• Well-founded fear of persecution 2
• Widowed persons 1
• Witnesses 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