Sri Lanka

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Abduction 17
Agents of persecution 1
Ahmadis 1
Anglican 8
Arbitrary arrest and detention 35
Armed forces / Military 8
Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 23
Assemblies of God 5
Asylum-seekers 7
Baptist 7
Buddhist 11
Catholic 8
Ceasefire 4
Child labour 16
Child prostitution 10
Child soldiers 29
Children's rights 34
Children-at-risk 17
Chin 1
Christian 12
Civil and political rights 2
Civil war 1
Communal conflict / Social conflict 1
Conflict resolution 3
Conflict situation 5
Corruption 13
Criminal justice 11
Dalit 1
Death in custody 2
Death penalty 7
Demobilization / Disarmament 6
Democracy 1
Deportation / Forcible return 2
Disabled persons 10
Disappeared persons 39
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 21
Economic, social and cultural rights 14
Effective protection 1
Elections 16
Equality before the law 3
Evangelical 8
Exiles 1
Expulsion 1
Extrajudicial executions 35
Female genital mutilation (FGM) 3
Forced labour 23
Forced marriage 3
Forced relocation 1
Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 34
Freedom of assembly and association 33
Freedom of conscience 3
Freedom of expression 113
Freedom of information 33
Freedom of movement 23
Freedom of religion 43
Freedom of speech 20
Gender discrimination 18
Gender-based persecution 1
Good governance 3
HIV and AIDS 2
Hindu 10
Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 4
Human rights activists 22
Human rights and fundamental freedoms 34
Human rights monitors 5
Humanitarian assistance 2
IDP camps 3
Illegal entry 1
Immigration Detention 3
Impunity 20
Independence of judiciary 6
Indigenous persons 7
Integration 1
Internal armed conflict 6
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 33
International courts and tribunals 1
International criminal law 2
International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 3
International protection 2
Jehovah's Witness 7
Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 1
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 7
Lhotshampas 1
Methodist 7
Migrants 5
Military operations 3
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 5
Minorities 20
Minority rights 7
Mormon 2
Muslim 14
Opposition 3
Peace process 3
Peacekeeping 3
Pentecostal 7
Persecution based on nationality 1
Persecution based on political opinion 6
Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 4
Persons of concern to UNHCR 2
Police 15
Political groups 1
Political parties 2
Political situation 8
Pre-trial detention 7
Prison or detention conditions 10
Property restitution 1
Prostitution / Commercial sex work 4
Protection of civilian persons in time of war 11
Protestant 6
Public health 5
Racial / Ethnic persecution 1
Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 2
Reconciliation 3
Refoulement 1
Refugee camps 2
Refugee identity documents 1
Refugees 10
Reintegration 1
Rejected asylum-seekers 1
Religious discrimination 22
Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 12
Residence permits / Residency 2
Return conditions 1
Returnees 1
Right to development 1
Right to education 9
Right to employment 8
Right to health 1
Right to justice 2
Right to self-determination 2
Roma 3
Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 12
SGBV 20
Sanctions 2
Security forces 9
Security situation 11
Seventh Day Adventist 7
Shia 7
Sinhalese 4
Smuggling of persons 1
Social group discrimination 13
State of emergency 4
Stateless persons 4
Sunni 7
Tamil 21
Terrorism 27
Threats / Intimidation 1
Tibetan 2
Torture 16
Trafficking in persons 39
Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 2
Urban refugees 2
Visas 1
War crimes 6
Widowed persons 1
Women's rights 25
Women-at-risk 13
Zomi (Chin) 1

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Amnesty International Annual Report 2013 - Sri Lanka 23 May 2013 \| Publisher: Amnesty International \| Document type: Annual Reports
2012 Report on International Religious Freedom - Sri Lanka 20 May 2013 \| Publisher: United States Department of State \| Document type: Annual Reports
Global Overview 2012: People internally displaced by conflict and violence - Sri Lanka 29 April 2013 \| Publisher: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) \| Document type: Annual Reports
2012 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - Sri Lanka 19 April 2013 \| Publisher: United States Department of State \| Document type: Annual Reports
Human Rights and Democracy: The 2012 Foreign & Commonwealth Office Report - Sri Lanka 15 April 2013 \| Publisher: United Kingdom: Foreign and Commonwealth Office \| Document type: Annual Reports
Human Rights and Democracy: The 2012 Foreign & Commonwealth Office Report April 2013 \| Publisher: United Kingdom: Foreign and Commonwealth Office \| Document type: Annual Reports
Human Development Report 2013 - The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World 19 March 2013 \| Publisher: UN Development Programme \| Document type: Annual Reports
Attacks on the Press in 2012 - Sri Lanka 14 February 2013 \| Publisher: Committee to Protect Journalists \| Document type: Annual Reports
World Report 2013 - Sri Lanka 31 January 2013 \| Publisher: Human Rights Watch \| Document type: Annual Reports
Freedom of the Press 2012 - Sri Lanka 2 November 2012 \| Publisher: Freedom House \| Document type: Annual Reports

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