Sri Lanka

• Case Law 33
• Query Responses 30

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• Airports 1
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 5
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 2
• Buddhist 1
• Combatants / Former combatants 1
• Conflict resolution 1
• Country of origin information (COI) 17
• Credibility assessment 4
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 2
• Effective protection 3
• Elderly 2
• Elections 1
• Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 1
• Forced labour 1
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 5
• Internal armed conflict 1
• Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 2
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 4
• Minorities 1
• Moor 1
• Muslim 4
• Non-state agents of persecution 5
• Persecution based on political opinion 29
• Persecution of family members 4
• Political groups 1
• Political parties 4
• Political situation 1
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 2
• Public health 1
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 19
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 3
• Returnees 1
• Safe third country 1
• Security situation 1
• Sinhalese 1
• Social group persecution 8
• State protection 4
• Tamil 21
• Widowed persons 1
• Women-at-risk 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