Sri Lanka

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Abduction 19
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Agents of persecution 1
Ahmadis 1
Anglican 11
Anti-terrorism law 2
Arbitrary arrest and detention 43
Armed forces / Military 11
Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 30
Assemblies of God 6
Asylum policy 2
Asylum-seekers 8
Baptist 10
Buddhist 15
Catholic 11
Ceasefire 4
Child labour 28
Child prostitution 14
Child soldiers 29
Children's rights 43
Children-at-risk 20
Chin 1
Christian 16
Civil and political rights 2
Civil war 1
Communal conflict / Social conflict 7
Conflict resolution 5
Conflict situation 5
Corruption 19
Crimes against humanity 1
Criminal justice 11
Dalit 1
Death in custody 4
Death penalty 13
Demobilization / Disarmament 6
Democracy 7
Deportation / Forcible return 2
Disappeared persons 52
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 28
Domestic violence 2
Economic, social and cultural rights 14
Effective protection 2
Elections 24
Emigrants 1
Equality before the law 3
Evangelical 12
Exiles 2
Expulsion 1
Extrajudicial executions 39
Female genital mutilation (FGM) 3
Forced labour 29
Forced marriage 5
Forced relocation 1
Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 37
Freedom of assembly and association 49
Freedom of conscience 3
Freedom of expression 142
Freedom of information 52
Freedom of movement 31
Freedom of religion 57
Freedom of speech 25
Gender discrimination 22
Gender-based persecution 1
Generalized violence 1
Good governance 3
HIV and AIDS 4
Hindu 13
Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 7
Human Rights Council 1
Human rights activists 32
Human rights and fundamental freedoms 39
Human rights monitors 7
Humanitarian assistance 3
IDP camps 3
Illegal entry 1
Immigration Detention 3
Impunity 33
Independence of judiciary 12
Indigenous persons 10
Integration 1
Internal armed conflict 8
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 43
International courts and tribunals 1
International criminal law 2
International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 7
International protection 3
Jehovah's Witness 10
Jew 2
Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 1
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 13
Lhotshampas 1
Livelihoods 3
Maternal and child health care 1
Methodist 10
Migrant rights 3
Migrants 8
Military operations 3
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 5
Minorities 25
Minority rights 11
Mormon 5
Muslim 20
National security / Public order 1
Opposition 4
Peace process 3
Peacekeeping 3
Pentecostal 10
Persecution based on nationality 1
Persecution based on political opinion 11
Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 10
Persons of concern to UNHCR 2
Persons with disabilities 15
Police 23
Political groups 1
Political parties 4
Political situation 9
Pre-trial detention 10
Prison or detention conditions 18
Property restitution 3
Prostitution / Commercial sex work 8
Protection of civilian persons in time of war 13
Protestant 7
Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 1
Public health 5
Racial / Ethnic persecution 1
Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 3
Reconciliation 11
Refoulement 1
Refugee camps 2
Refugee identity documents 1
Refugees 14
Registration 1
Reintegration 2
Rejected asylum-seekers 1
Religious discrimination 31
Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 14
Residence permits / Residency 2
Return conditions 1
Returnees 2
Right to development 2
Right to education 10
Right to employment 8
Right to health 1
Right to justice 3
Right to registration at birth 2
Right to self-determination 2
Roma 3
Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 22
Sanctions 2
Security forces 16
Security situation 12
Seventh Day Adventist 10
Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 29
Sexual and reproductive rights 2
Shia 10
Sinhalese 7
Smuggling of persons 1
Social group discrimination 13
State of emergency 4
State protection 1
Statelessness 4
Sunni 10
Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 3
Tamil 35
Terrorism 38
Threats / Intimidation 13
Tibetan 2
Torture 30
Trafficking in persons 48
Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 5
Unaccompanied / Separated children 1
Urban refugees 2
Visas 1
War crimes 11
Widowed persons 1
Women's rights 30
Women-at-risk 13
Zomi (Chin) 1

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Freedom on the Net 2018 - Sri Lanka 1 November 2018 \| Publisher: Freedom House \| Document type: Annual Reports
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
2018 Global Report on Internal Displacement - South Asia 16 May 2018 \| Publisher: Norwegian Refugee Council/Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (NRC/IDMC) \| Document type: Annual Reports
Freedom in the World 2018 - Sri Lanka 5 April 2018 \| Publisher: Freedom House \| Document type: Annual Reports
Amnesty International Report 2017/18 - Sri Lanka 22 February 2018 \| Publisher: Amnesty International \| Document type: Annual Reports
World Report 2018 - Sri Lanka 18 January 2018 \| Publisher: Human Rights Watch \| Document type: Annual Reports

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