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...
Image: Activists protest in Sri Lanka against the discriminatory treatment of migrant workers. ( FB photo, January 2021)
The year 2020 was a horrible year...
Image: Port of Colombo in 2019: Sri Lanka and India recently agreed on terms for developing the port's Eastern Container Terminal with Indian company...
Image courtesy of www.inlander.com.
(January 23, 2021) The ICJ stated today that a newly appointed Commission of Inquiry tasked to review reports on past human...
File photo: Harith Eknaligoda is on the right (2012)
Writing on Facebook, Harth Eknaligoda, youngest son of abducted and disappeared Sri Lankan journalist and cartoonist...
The Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into Political Victimisation has suggested the establishment of a Special Presidential Commission of Inquiry to make recommendations to Parliament...
File photo: These arrested alleged LTTE militants by Sri Lanka military. Their whereabouts are still unknown.
In her report on Sri Lanka to the upcoming...
Image: the tasks encompassed within its mandate have already been performed by the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC, 2011)
The recent appointment by President...
Image: Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, center, sings the national anthem during an event to mark the anniversary of country's independence from British colonial...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is filling government with ex-top brass in the name of 'professionalizing' island-nation's politics.
by Salman Rafi Sheikh
Even at the height of the Sri...
Caroon by Avantha Artigala.
Militarisation of civilian space began during the first Rajapaksa regime. Yet, it didn’t cause public concern, except amongst certain civil society...
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) yesterday informed Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court that it had obtained a detention order from the Defence Ministry to interrogate...
Image: The issue of enforced disappearances has never been properly investigated in Sri Lanka.
President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa is to appoint a new Commission of Inquiry...
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...
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...
