Sri Lanka

• Case Law 70

• Appeal / Right to appeal 2
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 6
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 3
• Burden of proof 1
• Citizenship / Nationality law 1
• Combatants / Former combatants 3
• Complementary forms of protection 1
• Convention refugee 6
• Country of origin information (COI) 7
• Credibility assessment 7
• Crimes against humanity 6
• Criminal justice 9
• Deportation / Forcible return 15
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 2
• Drug trafficking 4
• Effective remedy 2
• Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 11
• Exclusion clauses 9
• Expulsion 3
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 12
• Freedom of assembly and association 1
• Gender-based persecution 1
• Immigration Detention 2
• Inclusion clauses 2
• Internal armed conflict 1
• Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 3
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 1
• National security / Public order 3
• Non-refoulement 2
• Non-state agents of persecution 5
• Persecution based on nationality 2
• Persecution based on political opinion 13
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 1
• Police 2
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 1
• Refoulement 1
• Refugees 1
• Refugees sur place 3
• Rejected asylum-seekers 2
• Residence permits / Residency 1
• Right to justice 1
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 9
• Safe third country 2
• Security situation 1
• Serious non-political crime 2
• Social group persecution 4
• Standard of proof 1
• State protection 1
• Tamil 32
• Terrorism 3
• Well-founded fear of persecution 7

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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