Sri Lanka

Legal Information 471

Abduction 13
Abuse of psychiatry 1
Access to procedures 3
Acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations 1
Agents of persecution 3
Airports 5
Appeal / Right to appeal 19
Arbitrary arrest and detention 59
Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 12
Asylum policy 4
Asylum-seekers 4
Border controls 1
Buddhist 1
Burden of proof 2
Catholic 1
Ceasefire 15
Cessation clauses 2
Changes of circumstances in home country 25
Child soldiers 1
Children's rights 1
Christian 2
Civil and political rights 1
Civil war 1
Combatants / Former combatants 17
Complementary forms of protection 12
Conflict situation 3
Convention against Torture (CAT) 4
Convention refugee 18
Country of origin information (COI) 78
Credibility assessment 46
Crimes against humanity 15
Criminal justice 20
Decision on admissibility 4
Denial of refugee status 3
Deportation / Forcible return 73
Derivative status 2
Disabled persons 2
Disappeared persons 2
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 8
Drug trafficking 10
EU Qualification Directive 1
Economic, social and cultural rights 1
Effective protection 9
Effective remedy 4
Elderly 3
Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 80
Exclusion clauses 29
Expulsion 24
Extrajudicial executions 2
False documents 1
Family reunification 5
Forced labour 3
Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 71
Freedom of conscience 1
Freedom of expression 3
Freedom of movement 1
Freedom of religion 2
Freedom of speech 3
Fresh / New claim 3
Gender-based persecution 3
Grounds for persecution 4
Hindu 1
Human rights and fundamental freedoms 2
Illegal entry 2
Immigration Detention 10
Inclusion clauses 2
Independence of judiciary 3
Internal armed conflict 6
Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 21
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 1
Involuntary repatriation 2
Jurisdiction 2
Legal representation / Legal aid 3
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 3
Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims 9
Mental health 15
Mentally disadvantaged persons 1
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 9
Minorities 2
Moor 1
Muslim 11
National security / Public order 5
Non-refoulement 22
Non-state agents of persecution 39
Passports 4
Persecution based on nationality 2
Persecution based on political opinion 176
Persecution of family members 13
Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 3
Police 3
Political asylum 2
Political groups 2
Political parties 6
Political situation 1
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 13
Pre-entry procedures 3
Pre-trial detention 1
Prosecution vs persecution 4
Public health 2
Racial / Ethnic persecution 66
Reception 2
Refoulement 19
Refugee / Asylum law 1
Refugees 3
Rejected asylum-seekers 21
Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 9
Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 1
Residence permits / Residency 3
Returnees 1
Right to education 2
Right to employment 2
Right to family life 23
Right to justice 5
Right to liberty and security 7
Right to life 4
Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 19
SGBV 7
Safe country of origin 1
Safe third country 10
Security forces 2
Security situation 16
Serious non-political crime 12
Single heads of household 1
Single procedure 1
Sinhalese 7
Social group persecution 18
Standard of proof 6
State protection 10
Sur place persecution 1
Tamil 191
Terrorism 8
Travel documents 2
Unlawful departure 5
Visas 8
Voluntary repatriation 1
War crimes 5
Well-founded fear of persecution 11
Widowed persons 1
Witnesses 3
Women-at-risk 7

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Refugee Appeal No. 76507 5 August 2010 \| Publisher: New Zealand: Refugee Status Appeals Authority \| Document type: Case Law
Refugee Appeal No. 76534 4 August 2010 \| Publisher: New Zealand: Refugee Status Appeals Authority \| Document type: Case Law
Pathmakanthan v. Holder, Attorney General of the United States 16 July 2010 \| Publisher: United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit \| Document type: Case Law
RRT Case No. 1002652 15 July 2010 \| Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal \| Document type: Case Law
Refugee Appeal Nos. 76502, 76503 & 76504 29 June 2010 \| Publisher: New Zealand: Refugee Status Appeals Authority \| Document type: Case Law
Refugee Appeal No. 76466 11 June 2010 \| Publisher: New Zealand: Refugee Status Appeals Authority \| Document type: Case Law
Refugee Appeal No. 76428 10 June 2010 \| Publisher: New Zealand: Refugee Status Appeals Authority \| Document type: Case Law
RRT Case No. 0909898 31 May 2010 \| Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal \| Document type: Case Law
RRT Case No. 0905013 4 May 2010 \| Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal \| Document type: Case Law
Tiyagarajah v. Sri Lanka 30 April 2010 \| Publisher: UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) \| Document type: Case Law

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