Sri Lanka

• Case Law 60

• Abduction 1
• Agents of persecution 1
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 1
• Country of origin information (COI) 2
• Credibility assessment 2
• Crimes against humanity 2
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 5
• Effective protection 2
• Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 7
• Exclusion clauses 1
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 3
• Freedom of expression 2
• Freedom of speech 2
• Grounds for persecution 1
• Immigration Detention 1
• Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 1
• Legal representation / Legal aid 1
• Mental health 2
• Non-state agents of persecution 1
• Persecution based on political opinion 8
• Persecution of family members 2
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 6
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 1
• Sinhalese 2
• Social group persecution 2
• Sur place persecution 1
• Tamil 2
• Visas 7
• War crimes 1
• Well-founded fear of persecution 1

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• AlertNet - Sri Lanka
• 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