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 1
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 20
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
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 120
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 85
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 2
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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'There are no human rights in Sri Lanka' 1 May 2013 \| Publisher: Amnesty International \| Document type: Country News
Sri Lanka's assault on dissent 30 April 2013 \| Publisher: Amnesty International \| Document type: Country Reports
Sri Lanka: Report exposes the government's violent repression of dissent 30 April 2013 \| Publisher: Amnesty International \| Document type: Country News
Global Overview 2012: People internally displaced by conflict and violence - Sri Lanka 29 April 2013 \| Publisher: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) \| Document type: Annual Reports
Sri Lanka: Commonwealth Should Relocate November Meeting 24 April 2013 \| Publisher: Human Rights Watch \| Document type: Country News
2012 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - Sri Lanka 19 April 2013 \| Publisher: United States Department of State \| Document type: Annual Reports
Second armed attack on Tamil newspaper in 10 days 15 April 2013 \| Publisher: Reporters Without Borders \| Document type: Country News
Human Rights and Democracy: The 2012 Foreign & Commonwealth Office Report - Sri Lanka 15 April 2013 \| Publisher: United Kingdom: Foreign and Commonwealth Office \| Document type: Annual Reports
Second Armed Attack on Tamil Newspaper in 10 Days 15 April 2013 \| Publisher: Reporters Without Borders \| Document type: Country News
Sri Lankan daily attacked again, twice in two weeks 15 April 2013 \| Publisher: Committee to Protect Journalists \| Document type: Country News

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