Image: Every leader commencing from Anagarika Dharmapala up to Gotabhaya who had led the country along this path have disrupted the country and carried...
Statement by Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Madam President,
This is a key juncture for the Council’s engagement with Sri Lanka. As my...
By Claudia Otto, Tamara Qiblawi and Stephanie Halasz, CNN.
Berlin (CNN)A German court has convicted a former Syrian regime officer for crimes against humanity, in a...
Image: Screen shot of JVP video
A little over a month after the Presidential election, in January 2020 a Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) into...
I am going to explain about the Commission on Political Victimisation established by President Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
The Commission was set up to investigate acts...
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders, expresses concern over the timing and purpose of the Pakistan Prime...
Image: President Mahinda Rajapaksa was welcomed by Senior General Than Shwe, ruler of the Myanmar in June 2009.
The Burma (now Myanmar) was a British...
by Laurel E. Fletcher
Former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay says the Sri Lankan government has made clear it has no serious intention of pursuing...
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On this occasion when Sri Lanka celebrates its 73rd anniversary of independence, the country is in an unprecedented state of...
Image: Shehan Gunasekara/Daily FT.
“The High Commissioner is deeply concerned by the trends emerging over the past year, which may represent early warning signs of...
By Claudia Otto, Tamara Qiblawi and Stephanie Halasz, CNN.
Berlin (CNN)A German court has convicted a former Syrian regime officer for crimes against humanity, in a...
Image: Malaysiakini's Editor-in-Chief Steven Gan leaves the Federal Court after the online newspaper was found guilty of contempt over readers' comments
Malaysia’s highest court...
Journalists are being targeted, news outlets threatened, bullets fired, curfews imposed and internet blocked by a military junta intent on silencing dissent against stolen...
Image: A photograph from August 2003 shows a bullet-strewn street following a brutal civil war in Monrovia, Liberia. Keystone / Nic Bothma/Swissinfo
The trial in Switzerland of...