Sri Lanka

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Abduction 6
Abuse of psychiatry 1
Access to procedures 3
Administrative law 1
Aliens 1
Anti-terrorism law 1
Arbitrary arrest and detention 10
Armed forces / Military 5
Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 5
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Asylum-seekers 5
Ceasefire 2
Child soldiers 11
Children's rights 9
Children-at-risk 7
Christian 1
Civil and political rights 3
Civil war 5
Combatants / Former combatants 3
Communal conflict / Social conflict 1
Conflict resolution 17
Conflict situation 9
Contemporary forms of slavery 1
Convention against Torture (CAT) 1
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 1
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 1
Corruption 1
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Criminal justice 6
Death in custody 1
Death penalty 5
Demobilization / Disarmament 1
Deportation / Forcible return 2
Derivative status 1
Disabled persons 1
Disappeared persons 11
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 4
Domestic violence 2
EU Qualification Directive 1
Economic, social and cultural rights 2
Effective remedy 8
Elections 1
Emergency legislation 1
Entry / Exit 2
Ethnic cleansing 1
Expulsion 1
Extrajudicial executions 10
Extreme poverty 1
False documents 1
Family reunification 1
Female genital mutilation (FGM) 3
Forced labour 4
Forced marriage 3
Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 14
Freedom of assembly and association 5
Freedom of expression 24
Freedom of information 8
Freedom of movement 5
Freedom of religion 2
Freedom of speech 6
Gender discrimination 3
Gender-based persecution 2
Genocide 1
Good governance 2
HIV and AIDS 1
Harmful traditional practices 2
Hindu 2
Hmong 1
Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 5
Human Rights Council 7
Human rights activists 1
Human rights and fundamental freedoms 15
Human rights law 1
Human rights monitors 1
Humanitarian assistance 6
IDP camps 3
Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 1
Illegitimate children 1
Immigrants 2
Immigration Detention 1
Impunity 10
Independence of judiciary 5
Indigenous persons 2
Internal armed conflict 7
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 29
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 1
International armed conflict 1
International courts and tribunals 1
International criminal law 2
International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 1
Involuntary repatriation 1
Labour law 1
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 7
Livelihoods 1
Maternal and child health care 1
Mental health 1
Migrant rights 3
Migrants 4
Military operations 3
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 3
Minorities 9
Minority rights 3
Muslim 6
Nomads 1
Non-state agents of persecution 1
Opposition 1
Orderly return 1
Peace process 1
Peacekeeping 1
Persecution based on political opinion 3
Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 2
Persons not in need of international protection 1
Persons of concern to UNHCR 2
Police 3
Political groups 3
Political parties 3
Political situation 10
Prison or detention conditions 9
Proof of nationality 1
Prosecution vs persecution 1
Prostitution / Commercial sex work 1
Protection of camps 1
Protection of civilian persons in time of war 3
Public health 2
Racial / Ethnic persecution 1
Reconciliation 12
Refugee / Asylum law 3
Refugees 7
Reintegration 2
Rejected asylum-seekers 1
Religious discrimination 2
Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 1
Resettlement 2
Return conditions 8
Returnees 6
Right to a nationality 1
Right to education 1
Right to employment 2
Right to family life 1
Right to justice 2
Right to liberty and security 1
Right to life 1
Right to seek asylum 1
Right to self-determination 1
Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 11
SGBV 12
Security forces 5
Security situation 11
Sexual and reproductive rights 1
Sinhalese 6
Smuggling of persons 2
Social group discrimination 1
State of emergency 1
State protection 1
Stateless persons 1
Tamil 27
Terrorism 7
Torture 1
Trafficking in persons 6
Unaccompanied / Separated children 4
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 8
Veddhas 2
Visas 2
Voluntary repatriation 1
War crimes 2
Witnesses 2
Women's rights 8
Women-at-risk 7
Work permits 1

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Sri Lanka's assault on dissent 30 April 2013 \| Publisher: Amnesty International \| Document type: Country Reports
UNHCR Urged to Prevent Refugee Joournalist's Expulsion from UAE 9 April 2013 \| Publisher: Reporters Without Borders \| Document type: Country Reports
Sri Lanka Censors BBC's Programmes on UN Human Rights Council 27 March 2013 \| Publisher: Reporters Without Borders \| Document type: Country Reports
"We Will Teach You a Lesson" - Sexual Violence against Tamils by Sri Lankan Security Forces 26 February 2013 \| Publisher: Human Rights Watch \| Document type: Country Reports
Amnesty International welcomes UN High Commissioner for Human Rights' repeated call for an independent and credible international investigation into alleged violations of international law in Sri Lanka 13 February 2013 \| Publisher: Amnesty International \| Document type: Country Reports
Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on advice and technical assistance for the Government of Sri Lanka on promoting reconciliation and accountability in Sri Lanka 11 February 2013 \| Publisher: UN Human Rights Council \| Document type: Country Reports
Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on advice and technical assistance for the Government of Sri Lanka on promoting reconciliation and accountability in Sri Lanka : Addendum, Comments by the State 11 February 2013 \| Publisher: UN Human Rights Council \| Document type: Country Reports
Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review : Sri Lanka 18 December 2012 \| Publisher: UN Human Rights Council \| Document type: Country Reports
Sri Lanka - Bulletin: Treatment of Returns December 2012 \| Publisher: United Kingdom: Home Office \| Document type: Country Reports
Sri Lanka: Tamil Politics and the Quest for a Political Solution 20 November 2012 \| Publisher: International Crisis Group (ICG) \| Document type: Country Reports

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