Sri Lanka

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• Civil war 5
• Combatants / Former combatants 1
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• Conflict resolution 23
• Conflict situation 3
• Contemporary forms of slavery 1
• Crimes against humanity 3
• Criminal justice 4
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• Deportation / Forcible return 1
• Disappeared persons 20
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• Economic, social and cultural rights 1
• Effective remedy 17
• Elections 6
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• Freedom of movement 4
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• Freedom of speech 7
• Good governance 1
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• Impunity 24
• Independence of judiciary 1
• Internal armed conflict 17
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 19
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• Labour law 1
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• Migrant rights 8
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• Police 6
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• Political situation 9
• Population transfers 1
• Prison or detention conditions 4
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 19
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 1
• Public health 1
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 1
• Reconciliation 18
• Refugees 3
• Rejected asylum-seekers 1
• Religious discrimination 3
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 2
• Return conditions 1
• Right to employment 1
• Right to justice 14
• Right to seek asylum 2
• Rohingya (Arakanese) 1
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 4
• Security forces 5
• Security situation 11
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 5
• Shan 1
• Sinhalese 1
• State of emergency 4
• State protection 1
• Tamil 30
• Terrorism 6
• Torture 6
• Trafficking in persons 2
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 5
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 1
• Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2
• Visas 3
• War crimes 22
• Women's rights 3
• Women-at-risk 3
• Work permits 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