Justice C.V. Wigneswaran A dialogue on governance, development and vulnerabilityJustice C.V. Wigneswaran, Chief Minister, Northern Provincial Council delivered the opening address at a...
Chaminda Priyantha Kumara, 32, was tortured over a period of two days at Kalutara South Police Station Critics decry brutal, corrupt criminal justice...
A protest was staged in Hikkaduwa by monks and area residents today against Christian churches operating in the area. The protesters blocked a section...
Increasing foreign debt burden despite improved external financesIn spite of the Central Bank announcing that “Gross Official Reserves increased to US$...
Add captionThe government of the United States today encouraged the government of Sri Lanka to seek the truth over alleged human rights abuses through...
Stanley SamarasingheThe Lawyers’ Collective held a media conference, at the Nippon Hotel in Colombo yesterday, to mark the first anniversary of the impeachment of...
The Sentinel Project for Genocide Prevention/January 2014 1.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARYThe risk of mass atrocities in Sri Lanka reached a critical threshold from January through...
Ranga Jayasuriya The US Embassy yesterday reiterated the calls for ‘an independent and credible investigation’ into allegations of war crimes during the final phase of...
Shamindra FerdinandoEven though the US recommended that the Sri Lankan government swiftly acquire cluster bombs to target the LTTE, the country never felt the...
RappShamindra FerdinandoDefence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa yesterday alleged that the US was undermining the post-war reconciliation process by strengthening the hands of those...
The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) has produced a table that contains basic information pertaining to Commissions of Inquiry (CoI) and committees...
Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL), the national chapter of the global anti-corruption movement,has requested Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa and all the party leaders to take...
Dilrukshi HandunnettiFive years is a long time, when one waits for justice. But all of us have waited – family, friends, colleagues, citizens, readers,...
Six more human skeletons were exhumed at the genocidal mass grave at Thirukkeatheesvaram in Mannaar on Tuesday, in addition to the already exhumed 26...
Ambassador-at-Large of the Office of Global Criminal Justice of the United States, Lawyer Stephen J. Rapp, appeared puzzled yesterday when he saw the website...
The Bishop of Mannar, Mgr Rayappu Joseph has called for an international investigation to ascertain the truth about alleged war crimes. He said: "Given...
A ‘slip of the tongue’ and a celluloid crusader’s unfortunate downfall
Confusion has been worse confounded in the public mind following the conviction this week...
The Prisons Department has called for applications to recruit 200 male Prison Guards from those who have retired from the defence services after completing...
GENEVA, (15 January 2021) - The Human Rights Council today elected Ambassador Nazhat Shameem Khan, Permanent Representative of Fiji to the United Nations Office...
