Sri Lanka
These articles and reports provide background to the issues facing refugees from Sri Lanka and those still there.
(2026) Human Rights Watch report on events in Sri Lanka in 2025
https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2026/country-chapters/sri-lanka
(2025) Briefing Notes on Sri Lanka (October 2025)
The following provides a summary of the detailed report on the issues in Sri Lanka (next link) and is compiled by the Combined Refugee Action Group based in Geelong.
CRAG Sri Lanka Briefing Notes (October 2025)
(2025) Country Report on Sri Lanka – October 2025
CRAG (Combined Refugee Action Group) Sri Lanka Country Information Report No. 17 (October 2025)
(2025) Human Rights Watch report on the events of 2024
HRW World Report 2025: Sri Lanka
(2025) Country Report on Sri Lanka – March 2025
Sri Lanka: Country Information Report March 2025
A very detailed, fully referenced update on the situation in Sri Lanka produced in March 2025 by the Combined Refugee Action Group based in Geelong, Victoria.
Older reports on the situation in Sri Lanka
by Graeme Swincer OAM for Blue Mountains Refugee Support Group October 2023
by Graeme Swincer OAM for Blue Mountains Refugee Support Group October 2022
Bruce Haigh; The Rajapaksas – rotten to the core, August 22 2022
by Graeme Swincer OAM for Blue Mountains Refugee Support Group
by Gillian Appleton, October 2014
by Gillian Appleton, 29 July 2013 (with corrigendum July 2014
by Yasmin Sooka, The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) and The International Truth & Justice Project, Sri Lanka