Sri Lanka

Abduction 4
Access to procedures 1
Administrative law 2
Ahmadis 2
Airports 12
Akan 1
Arbitrary arrest and detention 14
Armed attacks on camps 1
Armed forces / Military 4
Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 138
Asylum-seekers 2
Bail 1
Baptist 1
Buddhist 3
Catholic 9
Ceasefire 6
Child soldiers 8
Children-at-risk 1
Christian 3
Civil and political rights 1
Civil war 3
Combatants / Former combatants 2
Conflict resolution 3
Country of origin information (COI) 2
Criminal justice 18
Death squads 4
Denial of refugee status 5
Deportation / Forcible return 7
Disappeared persons 7
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 24
Domestic violence 4
Drug trafficking 2
Effective remedy 1
Elections 4
Emigrants 4
Expulsion 1
Extradition 2
False documents 3
Family reunification 1
Flight by land, air or sea 1
Forced marriage 1
Forced sterilization / Abortion 1
Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 8
Freedom of assembly and association 1
Freedom of conscience 1
Freedom of expression 7
Freedom of information 2
Freedom of movement 15
Freedom of religion 2
Freedom of speech 2
Habeas corpus 1
Habitual residence 1
Hijacking 2
Hindu 18
Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 2
Human rights activists 4
Human rights and fundamental freedoms 43
Human rights monitors 1
IDP camps 3
Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 1
Illegitimate children 1
Immigration Detention 1
Immigration control after entry 4
Impunity 2
Internal armed conflict 1
Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 3
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 15
Involuntary repatriation 1
Legal representation / Legal aid 2
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 4
Location of camps 3
Malays 1
Mental health 1
Mentally disadvantaged persons 1
Migrants 2
Military courts 5
Military operations 1
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 29
Minorities 3
Muslim 17
Non-refoulement 1
Non-state agents of persecution 2
Older persons 8
One-child policy / Family planning 1
Opposition 4
Peace agreements 1
Peace process 4
Peacekeeping 8
Persecution based on political opinion 7
Persecution of family members 2
Persons of concern to UNHCR 1
Persons with disabilities 2
Police 5
Political asylum 1
Political groups 8
Political parties 25
Political situation 15
Prison or detention conditions 9
Prosecution vs persecution 2
Public health 1
Punjabis 1
Racial / Ethnic persecution 22
Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 2
Reconciliation 7
Refoulement 1
Refugee camps 9
Refugee identity documents 6
Refugee travel documents / CTDs 2
Refugees 1
Refugees sur place 1
Registration 2
Rejected asylum-seekers 9
Religious discrimination 2
Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 1
Resettlement 1
Residence permits / Residency 18
Return conditions 4
Returnees 12
Right to a nationality 5
Right to education 1
Right to registration at birth 2
Right to return 1
Rights of non-citizens 2
Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 1
Security forces 18
Security situation 4
Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 19
Sexual and reproductive rights 1
Sikh 2
Sindhis 1
Single heads of household 2
Sinhalese 57
Smuggling of persons 3
Social group discrimination 1
Social group persecution 2
Spontaneous return 1
State of emergency 3
State protection 5
Sunni 1
Sur place persecution 1
Tamil 352
Terrorism 39
Trafficking in persons 1
Transit 2
Travel documents 4
Unaccompanied / Separated children 1
Unlawful departure 1
Visas 12
Voluntary repatriation 20
Well-founded fear of persecution 2
Widowed persons 2
Witnesses 3
Women's rights 5
Women-at-risk 4
Work permits 3

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Sri Lanka: entry and exit procedures at international airports, including security screening and documents required for citizens to enter and leave the country; treatment of returnees upon arrival at international airports, including failed asylum seekers and people who exited the country illegally; factors affecting the treatment, including ethnicity and religion (2015-November 2017) 10 November 2017 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Sri Lanka : information sur les procédures d'entrée et de sortie aux aéroports internationaux, y compris le contrôle de sécurité et les documents dont doivent être munis les citoyens pour entrer au pays et sortir de celui-ci; le traitement réservé aux personnes de retour au pays à leur arrivée à un aéroport international, y compris les demandeurs d'asile déboutés et les personnes qui ont quitté le pays illégalement; les facteurs ayant une incidence sur la façon dont ces personnes sont traitées, y compris l'origine ethnique et la religion (2015-novembre 2017) 10 November 2017 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Sri Lanka: Fraudulent documents, including national identity cards, registers of birth and birth certificates; difference between registers of birth and birth certificates (2015-July 2017) 28 July 2017 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Sri Lanka : information sur les documents frauduleux, y compris les cartes d'identité nationale, les enregistrements de naissance et les certificats de naissance; la différence entre les enregistrements de naissance et les certificats de naissance (2015-juillet 2017) 28 July 2017 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Sri Lanka : information sur la capacité des notaires publics, des avocats ou des commissaires à l'assermentation de certifier un document dans lequel un déclarant affirme avoir aidé une personne recherchée par les autorités à fuir le pays; information indiquant si le notaire, l'avocat ou le commissaire à l'assermentation est assujetti à des obligations juridiques lorsqu'il délivre un tel affidavit, y compris celle d'aviser les autorités (2016-juillet 2017) 20 July 2017 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Sri Lanka: Information on the ability of notaries public, lawyers or commissioners of oaths to notarize a document in which the deponent is stating that they aided an individual, who was wanted by the authorities, in fleeing the country; whether the notary, lawyer or commissioner of oaths has any legal obligations when issuing such an affidavit, including notifying the authorities (2016-July 2017) 20 July 2017 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Sri Lanka : information sur le traitement réservé aux Tamouls au sein de la société et par les autorités; le Parti démocratique populaire de l'Eelam (Eelam People's Democratic Party - EPDP), y compris ses rapports avec la population tamoule (2014-février 2017) 17 March 2017 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Sri Lanka: Treatment of Tamils in society and by authorities; the Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP), including relationship with the Tamil population (2014-February 2017) 17 March 2017 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Sri Lanka: Nordprovinz: Militärpräsenz, Überwachung, Folter, Situation von Frauen und von Angehörigen von Verschwundenen 14 October 2016 \| Publisher: Swiss Refugee Council \| Document type: Query Responses
Sri Lanka: Mitwirkung an regierungskritischem Film 30 September 2016 \| Publisher: Swiss Refugee Council \| Document type: Query Responses

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