Sri Lanka has imposed an island-wide militarised regime " for COVID-19 control work" according to a statement posted on the Sri Lanka Army website.
Although...
Image caption: Sri Lanka’s president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, was elected last year on a wave of anti-Muslim sentiment. Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock/TG.
The country insists all people who...
By Nicolás Misculin
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Argentina’s Senate voted on Wednesday to legalize abortion, a first for a big country in Latin America and a...
Image: The current controversy over Muslim burial issue has become handy to deflect the growing anti-regime anger. Saner minds from all communities are appealing...
Image: Chinese influence in Sri Lanka could be seen even on signboards!
US President signed coronavirus relief Bill which also provides some foreign aid
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The Inter-Religious Committee of the Amarapura and Ramanna Nikayas has written to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to convene an urgent meeting of medical and virology...
By Reuters Staff
(Reuters) - The European Union officially launched its mass COVID-19 vaccination programme on Sunday with the goal of making shots available to all...
In the Congo rainforest, the doctor who discovered Ebola warns of deadly viruses yet to come.
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo — Showing early...
While appreciating Sri Lanka’s relative success with the management of COVID-19, the Global Tamil Forum (GTF) would like to express its strong condemnation of...
Tamil nationalistic politics which have been overshadowed by the COVID-19 pandemic and related politics seems #to be gaining momentum with the next session of...
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has recently said that the Provincial Council (PC) elections will be held when the ground situation is conducive. Minister Sarath...
The parents of the 20-day-old infant who was cremated against their wishes filed a Fundamental Rights application before the Supreme Court through their Attorney...
The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) conducted the first national study on the treatment and conditions of prisoners from February 2018 to January...
Ahnaf Jazeem, a 25-year-old Sri Lankan poet, remains in jail without charge after being falsely accused, by the Crime Investigation Department (CID) on May...
Yesterday a small group of about 40-50 people belonging to all ethnic and religious backgrounds, gathered (whilst maintaining social distancing and wearing masks of...
Rahmatullah Nikzad, a reporter, photographer and chief of the Ghazni Journalists’ Union, was assassinated in the first district of Ghazni province by unknown assailants...
Image: Justice Upali Abeyrathna handing over the final report of the Commission on Political Victimisation to President Rajapaksa.
In a letter addressed to United Nations...
Image: Veddah Chief Wanaspathi Wannilaeththo.
Joining the ranks of environmentalists protesting the rapid rate of environmental devastation in Sri Lanka, Veddah Chief Wanaspathi Wannilaeththo said...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has appointed an active pro-government politician to lead the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka.
He has replaced the current Commission with...
Image: Fabian Salviol (left) & Diego García-Sayán (right)
Two United Nations Special Rapporteurs, namely, Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, and Fabian...
18 young people from Kattankudy, Eastern province, Sri Lanka have been arrested and detained under the draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act according to reports...
Local environmental experts stress that conservation is crucial to sustain
the ecological services provided by forests in Sri Lanka.
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By Devana Senanayake and Janik...
GR’s strategy of containing the political damage caused by his failure to win the economic war by winning the parallel war fought against minorities...
Speaking on 'Evaluation of the Role of Armed Forces and Ensuring National Security, Abreast with Contemporary Security Challenges', Sri Lanka army commander Lieutenant General...
Summary
The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council Resolution 40/1 which requested the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human...
Image: The High Commissioner is particularly troubled the appointments of Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva, as Army Chief and Major General (retired) Kamal Gunaratne, as...
ON the 11th year of Prageeth Ekneligoda abduction and disappearance Sandaya Ekneligoda launched a new initiative launching Ekneligoda Forum and https://ekneligodaforum.org/.
Ekneligoda Forum is a...
