Sri Lanka

Abduction 14
Abuse of psychiatry 1
Access to procedures 4
Acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations 1
Administrative law 1
Agents of persecution 3
Airports 5
Anti-terrorism law 2
Appeal / Right to appeal 19
Arbitrary arrest and detention 59
Armed forces / Military 1
Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 13
Asylum policy 4
Asylum-seekers 4
Bail 1
Bajuni 1
Border controls 1
Buddhist 1
Burden of proof 2
Catholic 1
Ceasefire 15
Cessation clauses 2
Changes of circumstances in home country 25
Child soldiers 1
Children's rights 2
Chinese 1
Christian 2
Citizenship law 9
Civil and political rights 1
Civil rights legislation 1
Civil war 1
Combatants / Former combatants 18
Complementary forms of protection 12
Conflict situation 4
Constitutional law 1
Contemporary forms of slavery 1
Convention against Torture (CAT) 4
Convention refugee 18
Country of origin information (COI) 78
Credibility assessment 46
Crimes against humanity 15
Criminal justice 25
Death in custody 2
Decision on admissibility 4
Denial of refugee status 3
Deportation / Forcible return 73
Derivative status 2
Disabled persons 2
Disappeared persons 3
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 8
Domestic violence 1
Drug trafficking 10
EU Qualification Directive 1
Economic, social and cultural rights 1
Effective protection 9
Effective remedy 5
Elderly 3
Emergency legislation 18
Emigrants 1
Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 80
Exclusion clauses 30
Expulsion 24
Extradition 1
Extrajudicial executions 4
False documents 1
Family reunification 5
Forced labour 3
Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 72
Freedom of assembly and association 1
Freedom of conscience 1
Freedom of expression 4
Freedom of movement 1
Freedom of religion 2
Freedom of speech 4
Fresh / New claim 3
Gender-based persecution 3
Grounds for persecution 4
Hazara 1
Hindu 1
Human rights and fundamental freedoms 4
Illegal entry 2
Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 1
Immigration Detention 10
Immigration law 1
Impunity 1
Inclusion clauses 2
Independence of judiciary 3
Indians 1
Internal armed conflict 6
Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 21
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 2
Involuntary repatriation 2
Jurisdiction 2
Labour law 1
Legal representation / Legal aid 4
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 3
Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims 9
Mental health 15
Mentally disadvantaged persons 1
Military operations 1
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 9
Minorities 3
Moor 1
Muslim 12
National security / Public order 6
Nationality law 9
Non-refoulement 23
Non-state agents of persecution 39
Passports 4
Peace process 1
Persecution based on nationality 2
Persecution based on political opinion 176
Persecution of family members 13
Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 3
Police 4
Political asylum 2
Political groups 3
Political parties 7
Political situation 2
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 13
Pre-entry procedures 3
Pre-trial detention 2
Prosecution vs persecution 5
Protection of civilian persons in time of war 1
Public health 2
Racial / Ethnic persecution 66
Readmission 1
Reception 2
Refoulement 20
Refugee / Asylum law 2
Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 1
Refugees 4
Regional instruments 1
Rejected asylum-seekers 21
Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 9
Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 1
Residence permits / Residency 3
Returnees 1
Right to education 2
Right to employment 2
Right to family life 23
Right to health 1
Right to justice 5
Right to liberty and security 7
Right to life 5
Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 21
SGBV 8
Safe country of origin 1
Safe third country 10
Security forces 5
Security situation 17
Serious non-political crime 12
Single heads of household 1
Single procedure 1
Sinhalese 7
Smuggling of persons 1
Social group persecution 18
Somalis 1
Standard of proof 6
State of emergency 11
State protection 10
Statelessness 4
Sur place persecution 1
Tamil 192
Terrorism 12
Trafficking in persons 1
Travel documents 2
Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 2
Unlawful departure 5
Visas 8
Voluntary repatriation 2
War crimes 6
Well-founded fear of persecution 12
Widowed persons 1
Witnesses 3
Women's rights 1
Women-at-risk 7

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R (on the application of Vellaokuddi) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department 4 March 2010 \| Publisher: United Kingdom: High Court (England and Wales) \| Document type: Case Law
PT (Sri Lanka) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department 16 February 2010 \| Publisher: United Kingdom: Court of Appeal (England and Wales) \| Document type: Case Law
RRT Case No. 0908537 3 February 2010 \| Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal \| Document type: Case Law
Minister of Citizenship and Immigration v. X 2 February 2010 \| Publisher: Canada: Federal Court \| Document type: Case Law
Refugee Appeal Nos. 76352, 76353 & 76354 26 January 2010 \| Publisher: New Zealand: Refugee Status Appeals Authority \| Document type: Case Law
Ahmed Mahad (previously referred to as AM) (Ethiopia) v. Entry Clearance Officer; Sahro Ali (previously referred to as SA) (Somalia) and Amal Wehelia (previously referred to as AW) (Somalia) v. Entry Clearance Officer; Malyun Ismail (previously referred to as MI) (Somalia) and Khadra Abdillahi (previously referred to as KA) (Somalia) v. Entry Clearance Officer; Vettivetpillai Sakthivel (previously referred to as VS) (Sri Lanka) v. Entry Clearance Officer; Abdi-Malik Muhumed (previously referred to as AM (No. 2)) (Somalia) v. Entry Clearance Officer 16 December 2009 \| Publisher: United Kingdom: Supreme Court \| Document type: Case Law
TK (Tamils - LP Updated) Sri Lanka v. Secretary of State for the Home Department 11 December 2009 \| Publisher: United Kingdom: Asylum and Immigration Tribunal / Immigration Appellate Authority \| Document type: Case Law
JS (Sri Lanka) v. Secretary of State for Home Department - UNHCR letter to the parties 8 December 2009 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees \| Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae
R (on the application of VK) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department 8 December 2009 \| Publisher: United Kingdom: Court of Appeal (England and Wales) \| Document type: Case Law
RRT Case No. 0908313 2 December 2009 \| Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal \| Document type: Case Law

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