Sri Lanka

1951 Refugee Convention 6
Abduction 53
Abuse of psychiatry 1
Access to procedures 7
Access to water 6
Acts of persecution 2
Administrative law 3
Agents of persecution 1
Ahmadis 7
Airports 13
Akan 1
Albanians 2
Albinism/Persons with Albinism 3
Aliens 1
Anglican 11
Anti-terrorism law 20
Arabs 1
Arbitrary arrest and detention 121
Armed attacks on camps 2
Armed forces / Military 66
Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 220
Assemblies of God 6
Asylum policy 5
Asylum-migration nexus 5
Asylum-seekers 50
Bail 1
Baptist 11
Border conflict 7
Border controls 1
Border crossers 1
Buddhist 38
Burden-sharing and international co-operation 1
Capacity building of state institutions 1
Catholic 22
Ceasefire 26
Cessation clauses 1
Chechen 1
Child labour 30
Child prostitution 16
Child soldiers 66
Children's rights 86
Children-at-risk 49
Chin 1
Christian 43
Civil and political rights 19
Civil war 43
Climate change (including environmental migrants) 1
Combatants / Former combatants 17
Communal conflict / Social conflict 24
Complementary forms of protection 3
Conflict resolution 167
Conflict situation 43
Contemporary forms of slavery 4
Convention against Torture (CAT) 9
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 7
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 5
Convention refugee 1
Corruption 31
Country of origin information (COI) 3
Coup d'état 7
Credibility assessment 1
Crimean Tatars 2
Crimes against humanity 18
Criminal justice 48
Dalit 1
Death in custody 10
Death penalty 30
Death squads 4
Demobilization / Disarmament 24
Democracy 9
Denial of refugee status 5
Deportation / Forcible return 26
Derivative status 1
Disappeared persons 136
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 76
Domestic violence 13
Drug trafficking 3
Druze 2
EU Qualification Directive 1
Economic, social and cultural rights 33
Effective protection 4
Effective remedy 62
Election law 2
Elections 96
Embargo 1
Emergency legislation 6
Emigrants 5
Entry / Exit 7
Equality before the law 3
Ethnic cleansing 3
Evangelical 14
Exclusion clauses 1
Exiles 5
Expulsion 4
Extradition 4
Extrajudicial executions 81
Extreme poverty 1
False documents 6
Falun Gong 2
Family reunification 3
Female genital mutilation (FGM) 9
Flight by land, air or sea 3
Forced labour 36
Forced marriage 11
Forced relocation 2
Forced sterilization / Abortion 1
Foreign occupation 4
Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 112
Freedom of assembly and association 93
Freedom of conscience 6
Freedom of expression 387
Freedom of information 193
Freedom of movement 66
Freedom of religion 79
Freedom of speech 154
Gender discrimination 33
Gender-based persecution 12
Generalized violence 3
Genocide 3
Good governance 17
HIV and AIDS 11
Habeas corpus 1
Habitual residence 1
Harmful traditional practices 4
Hijacking 2
Hindu 38
Hmong 1
Honour killings 1
Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 24
Human Rights Council 38
Human rights activists 87
Human rights and fundamental freedoms 179
Human rights law 2
Human rights monitors 25
Humanitarian assistance 26
IDP camps 31
Illegal entry 1
Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 5
Illegitimate children 2
Immigrants 3
Immigration Detention 9
Immigration control after entry 4
Impunity 97
Income-generating projects 1
Independence of judiciary 31
Indigenous persons 12
Integration 4
Internal armed conflict 102
Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 9
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 236
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CPED) 1
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) 3
International Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers (ICRMW) 4
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 5
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) 8
International armed conflict 3
International courts and tribunals 4
International criminal law 6
International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 17
International protection 5
Involuntary repatriation 2
Jehovah's Witness 10
Jew 3
Juvenile justice system 1
Kachin 1
Khmer 1
Kurd 9
Labour law 1
Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 15
Legal representation / Legal aid 4
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 52
Lhotshampas 1
Livelihoods 11
Location of camps 4
Lutheran 1
Malays 1
Mass exodus 1
Maternal and child health care 5
Mental health 5
Mentally disadvantaged persons 1
Methodist 10
Migrant rights 20
Migrants 40
Military courts 6
Military operations 17
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 45
Minorities 59
Minority rights 25
Mormon 5
Muslim 99
National security / Public order 4
Nomads 1
Non-refoulement 7
Non-state agents of persecution 8
Older persons 10
One-child policy / Family planning 1
Opposition 43
Orderly return 5
Palestinian 15
Peace agreements 7
Peace process 12
Peacekeeping 25
Pentecostal 10
Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 5
Persecution based on nationality 1
Persecution based on political opinion 61
Persecution of family members 6
Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 32
Persons not in need of international protection 1
Persons of concern to UNHCR 6
Persons with disabilities 23
Physical harm 1
Police 60
Political asylum 1
Political groups 20
Political parties 62
Political situation 107
Polygamy 1
Population transfers 1
Pre-entry procedures 2
Pre-trial detention 11
Prevention of discrimination 1
Prison or detention conditions 61
Prisoners of war 1
Proof of nationality 1
Property restitution 6
Prosecution vs persecution 4
Prostitution / Commercial sex work 11
Protection of camps 1
Protection of civilian persons in time of war 78
Protestant 8
Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 32
Public health 22
Punjabis 1
Racial / Ethnic persecution 32
Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 7
Reception 2
Reconciliation 124
Referendum 4
Refoulement 2
Refugee / Asylum law 5
Refugee camps 14
Refugee identity documents 7
Refugee seamen 8
Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 1
Refugee travel documents / CTDs 2
Refugees 74
Refugees sur place 1
Regional instruments 2
Registration 4
Reintegration 12
Rejected asylum-seekers 21
Rejection at border 2
Religious discrimination 59
Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 27
Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 3
Resettlement 20
Residence permits / Residency 20
Return conditions 49
Returnees 67
Right to a nationality 6
Right to development 1
Right to education 22
Right to employment 14
Right to family life 2
Right to food 5
Right to health 19
Right to justice 45
Right to liberty and security 5
Right to life 4
Right to registration at birth 6
Right to return 5
Right to seek asylum 6
Right to self-determination 4
Rights of non-citizens 2
Rohingya (Arakanese) 6
Roma 4
Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 55
Salafi 2
Sanctions 2
Secondary movement 1
Security forces 58
Security situation 116
Seventh Day Adventist 10
Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 90
Sexual and reproductive rights 6
Shan 1
Sharia law 1
Shia 21
Sikh 2
Sindhis 1
Single heads of household 2
Sinhalese 83
Smuggling of persons 6
Social group discrimination 20
Social group persecution 7
Spontaneous return 4
State of emergency 10
State protection 12
Statelessness 9
Sunni 15
Sur place persecution 1
Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 5
Tamil 608
Tatars 2
Terrorism 135
Threats / Intimidation 16
Tibetan 4
Torture 51
Trafficking in persons 66
Transgression of social / cultural norms 2
Transit 2
Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 20
Travel documents 4
Tuareg 1
Uighur 5
Unaccompanied / Separated children 7
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 23
Unlawful departure 5
Urban refugees 2
Veddhas 2
Visas 16
Voluntary repatriation 31
War crimes 80
Well-founded fear of persecution 2
Widowed persons 3
Witnesses 5
Women's rights 73
Women-at-risk 35
Work permits 4
Yazīdī 1
Zomi (Chin) 1

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Sri Lanka: Stepping Back from a Constitutional Crisis 6 November 2018 \| Publisher: International Crisis Group (ICG) \| Document type: Country Profiles
Freedom on the Net 2018 - Sri Lanka 1 November 2018 \| Publisher: Freedom House \| Document type: Annual Reports
Country Policy and Information Note Sri Lanka: Sexual orientation and gender identity and expression October 2018 \| Publisher: United Kingdom: Home Office \| Document type: Country Reports
The Researcher, October 2018 October 2018 \| Publisher: Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre \| Document type: Case Law Compilations/Analyses
2017 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor - Sri Lanka 20 September 2018 \| Publisher: United States Department of Labor \| Document type: Annual Reports
Country Reports on Terrorism 2017 - Sri Lanka 19 September 2018 \| Publisher: United States Department of State \| Document type: Annual Reports
Country Reports on Terrorism 2017 - Foreign Terrorist Organizations: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam 19 September 2018 \| Publisher: United States Department of State \| Document type: Annual Reports
Human Rights and Democracy Report 2017 - Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka 16 July 2018 \| Publisher: United Kingdom: Foreign and Commonwealth Office \| Document type: Annual Reports
2018 Trafficking in Persons Report - Sri Lanka 28 June 2018 \| Publisher: United States Department of State \| Document type: Annual Reports
Sri Lanka, nine years after the war 18 May 2018 \| Publisher: Human Rights Watch \| Document type: Country News

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