Sri Lanka

Abduction 31
Abuse of psychiatry 1
Access to procedures 4
Access to water 3
Acts of persecution 2
Administrative law 1
Agents of persecution 1
Ahmadis 4
Airports 8
Akan 1
Aliens 1
Anglican 7
Anti-terrorism law 1
Arabs 1
Arbitrary arrest and detention 74
Armed attacks on camps 2
Armed forces / Military 29
Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 170
Assemblies of God 5
Asylum policy 2
Asylum-migration nexus 3
Asylum-seekers 28
Bail 1
Baptist 7
Border conflict 1
Buddhist 13
Capacity building of state institutions 1
Catholic 16
Ceasefire 15
Child labour 18
Child prostitution 12
Child soldiers 62
Children's rights 63
Children-at-risk 35
Chin 1
Christian 15
Civil and political rights 7
Civil war 29
Combatants / Former combatants 14
Communal conflict / Social conflict 2
Conflict resolution 84
Conflict situation 34
Contemporary forms of slavery 1
Convention against Torture (CAT) 4
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 4
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 4
Convention refugee 1
Corruption 12
Country of origin information (COI) 1
Crimes against humanity 9
Criminal justice 41
Dalit 1
Death in custody 4
Death penalty 12
Death squads 4
Demobilization / Disarmament 11
Democracy 1
Denial of refugee status 5
Deportation / Forcible return 17
Derivative status 1
Disabled persons 13
Disappeared persons 80
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 47
Domestic violence 7
Drug trafficking 3
EU Qualification Directive 1
Economic, social and cultural rights 19
Effective protection 1
Effective remedy 13
Elderly 9
Elections 40
Embargo 1
Emergency legislation 5
Emigrants 4
Entry / Exit 2
Equality before the law 3
Ethnic cleansing 1
Evangelical 7
Exclusion clauses 1
Exiles 3
Expulsion 4
Extradition 2
Extrajudicial executions 65
Extreme poverty 1
False documents 3
Family reunification 3
Female genital mutilation (FGM) 4
Flight by land, air or sea 1
Forced labour 27
Forced marriage 5
Forced relocation 1
Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 73
Freedom of assembly and association 42
Freedom of conscience 6
Freedom of expression 301
Freedom of information 142
Freedom of movement 52
Freedom of religion 44
Freedom of speech 122
Gender discrimination 22
Gender-based persecution 5
Generalized violence 1
Genocide 1
Good governance 14
HIV and AIDS 7
Habeas corpus 1
Habitual residence 1
Harmful traditional practices 2
Hijacking 2
Hindu 29
Hmong 1
Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 13
Human Rights Council 11
Human rights activists 41
Human rights and fundamental freedoms 119
Human rights law 2
Human rights monitors 13
Humanitarian assistance 14
IDP camps 29
Illegal entry 1
Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 3
Illegitimate children 2
Immigrants 3
Immigration Detention 6
Impunity 62
Income-generating projects 1
Independence of judiciary 16
Indigenous persons 7
Integration 3
Internal armed conflict 86
Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 2
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 189
International Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers (ICRMW) 1
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 1
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) 3
International armed conflict 3
International courts and tribunals 2
International criminal law 2
International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 10
International protection 2
Involuntary repatriation 2
Jehovah's Witness 6
Khmer 1
Kurd 1
Labour law 1
Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 13
Legal representation / Legal aid 2
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 21
Lhotshampas 1
Livelihoods 8
Location of camps 3
Malays 1
Mass exodus 1
Maternal and child health care 4
Mental health 2
Mentally disadvantaged persons 1
Methodist 6
Migrant rights 9
Migrants 22
Military courts 5
Military operations 8
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 39
Minorities 39
Minority rights 12
Mormon 1
Muslim 45
Nomads 1
Non-refoulement 2
Non-state agents of persecution 3
Opposition 21
Orderly return 5
Peace agreements 3
Peace process 10
Peacekeeping 10
Pentecostal 6
Persecution based on nationality 1
Persecution based on political opinion 15
Persecution of family members 3
Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 7
Persons not in need of international protection 1
Persons of concern to UNHCR 5
Police 27
Political asylum 1
Political groups 14
Political parties 29
Political situation 47
Polygamy 1
Population transfers 1
Pre-trial detention 8
Prison or detention conditions 32
Prisoners of war 1
Proof of nationality 1
Property restitution 2
Prosecution vs persecution 4
Prostitution / Commercial sex work 6
Protection of camps 1
Protection of civilian persons in time of war 71
Protestant 6
Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 1
Public health 10
Punjabis 1
Racial / Ethnic persecution 27
Reconciliation 57
Refoulement 2
Refugee / Asylum law 3
Refugee camps 13
Refugee identity documents 5
Refugee seamen 1
Refugee travel documents / CTDs 2
Refugees 36
Refugees sur place 1
Registration 2
Reintegration 8
Rejected asylum-seekers 14
Religious discrimination 25
Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 13
Resettlement 18
Residence permits / Residency 16
Return conditions 40
Returnees 51
Right to a nationality 6
Right to development 1
Right to education 17
Right to employment 11
Right to family life 2
Right to food 1
Right to health 8
Right to justice 6
Right to liberty and security 2
Right to life 2
Right to return 2
Right to seek asylum 3
Right to self-determination 3
Rights of non-citizens 2
Rohingya (Arakanese) 1
Roma 1
Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 32
SGBV 58
Security forces 40
Security situation 67
Seventh Day Adventist 6
Sexual and reproductive rights 3
Sharia law 1
Shia 6
Sikh 2
Sindhis 1
Single heads of household 2
Sinhalese 72
Smuggling of persons 6
Social group discrimination 15
Social group persecution 3
Spontaneous return 4
State of emergency 9
State protection 7
Stateless persons 5
Sunni 7
Sur place persecution 1
Tamil 477
Terrorism 85
Threats / Intimidation 3
Tibetan 2
Torture 16
Trafficking in persons 49
Transit 2
Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 2
Travel documents 3
Tuareg 1
Uighur 1
Unaccompanied / Separated children 5
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 13
Unlawful departure 1
Urban refugees 2
Veddhas 2
Visas 16
Voluntary repatriation 25
War crimes 41
Well-founded fear of persecution 2
Widowed persons 3
Witnesses 5
Women's rights 43
Women-at-risk 27
Work permits 4
Zomi (Chin) 1

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Internet Enemies 2012: Countries under surveillance - Sri Lanka 12 March 2012 \| Publisher: Reporters Without Borders \| Document type: Annual Reports
A commentary on the December 2011 Sri Lanka Operational Guidance Note 12 March 2012 \| Publisher: Still Human Still Here \| Document type: Commentaries
Sri Lanka: Government Promises, Ground Realities 1 March 2012 \| Publisher: International Crisis Group (ICG) \| Document type: Country News
The Year that Shook the Rich: A Review of Natural Disasters in 2011 March 2012 \| Publisher: Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement \| Document type: Annual Reports
Women's Asylum News: Issue No. 109, March 2012 March 2012 \| Publisher: Asylum Aid \| Document type: Country News
Report of the Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Addendum : Follow-up to the recommendations made by the Special Rapporteur visits to China, Denmark, Equatorial Guinea, Georgia, Greece, Indonesia, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Nigeria, Paraguay, Papua New Guinea, the Republic of Moldova, Spain, Sri Lanka, Togo, Uruguay and Uzbekistan 1 March 2012 \| Publisher: UN Human Rights Council \| Document type: Country Reports
National Documentation Package: Sri Lanka 29 February 2012 \| Publisher: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Country Reports
With media gagged or threatened, no progress for freedom of information 28 February 2012 \| Publisher: Reporters Without Borders \| Document type: Country News
Written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre, a non-governmental organization in general consultative status 22 February 2012 \| Publisher: UN Human Rights Council \| Document type: Speeches/Statements
Attacks on the Press in 2011 - Sri Lanka 22 February 2012 \| Publisher: Committee to Protect Journalists \| Document type: Annual Reports

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