Sri Lanka

• Annual Reports 19
• Country News 66
• Country Reports 19

• Abduction 6
• Abuse of psychiatry 1
• Access to procedures 1
• Acts of persecution 1
• Agents of persecution 1
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 13
• Armed forces / Military 5
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 3
• Asylum-seekers 1
• Ceasefire 2
• Child soldiers 5
• Children's rights 1
• Children-at-risk 2
• Civil and political rights 2
• Civil war 4
• Combatants / Former combatants 1
• Conflict resolution 11
• Conflict situation 3
• Contemporary forms of slavery 1
• Crimes against humanity 3
• Criminal justice 3
• Death penalty 1
• Demobilization / Disarmament 1
• Disappeared persons 13
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 2
• Economic, social and cultural rights 1
• Effective remedy 2
• Elections 3
• Emergency legislation 3
• Extrajudicial executions 7
• Forced labour 3
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 6
• Freedom of assembly and association 1
• Freedom of expression 12
• Freedom of information 5
• Freedom of movement 4
• Freedom of speech 5
• Good governance 1
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 2
• Human Rights Council 2
• Human rights activists 5
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 15
• Human rights monitors 1
• Humanitarian assistance 1
• IDP camps 2
• Immigrants 1
• Immigration Detention 1
• Impunity 18
• Independence of judiciary 1
• Internal armed conflict 17
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 19
• International armed conflict 1
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 2
• Labour law 1
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 1
• Migrant rights 4
• Migrants 7
• Military operations 1
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 1
• Minority rights 1
• Muslim 1
• Opposition 3
• Police 1
• Political groups 1
• Political parties 1
• Political situation 5
• Population transfers 1
• Prison or detention conditions 2
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 19
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 1
• Reconciliation 11
• Refugees 1
• Right to employment 1
• Right to justice 2
• Right to seek asylum 1
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 3
• SGBV 3
• Security forces 4
• Security situation 8
• State of emergency 3
• State protection 1
• Tamil 21
• Terrorism 3
• Torture 2
• Trafficking in persons 2
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 1
• Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1
• Visas 3
• War crimes 17
• Women-at-risk 3
• Work permits 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