Image: Nada Al-Nashif, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights making concluding remarks at the ID on Sri Lanka report.
Making interventions at the interactive dialogue at...
Many reports of the United Nations and International Human Rights organisations such as Human Rights Watch have documented human rights violations by LTTE for...
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...
ECONOMYNEXT – The Presidential Commission of Inquiry (CoI) on the 2019 Easter bombings has recommended that criminal proceedings be instituted against former President Maithripala...
A coalition of 22 Organizations Calls for New UN Human Rights Council Resolution to Protect Human Rights, Justice, and Accountability in Sri Lanka
To the...
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...
Zero draft of the resolution provided to Geneva based diplomatic missions by Sri Lanka core group titled Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in...
The Sri Lankan Government has launched a renewed crackdown on dissent that is severely curtailing civil society freedom and obstructing efforts to deliver justice...
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...
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders, expresses concern over the timing and purpose of the Pakistan Prime...
"Given the continued reluctance of the Sri Lankan Government to meaningfully uphold the human rights of all, only decisive, international action to ensure justice...
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: President Mahinda Rajapaksa was welcomed by Senior General Than Shwe, ruler of the Myanmar in June 2009.
The Burma (now Myanmar) was a British...
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...
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...
The Sri Lanka Web Journalists Association is disappointed by the government's attempt to restructure the Sri Lanka Press Council to include electronic, print and...
Attorney-at-law Senaka Perera says that the death of persons taken into custody by the police cannot be justified under any circumstances.
Activist Perera questioned the...
People’s Rights Group (PRG), a rights based advocacy and lobbying group based in the UK particularly dealing with human rights violations in Sri Lanka...
Sri Lanka: Constitutional amendment a blow to human rights; rights groups call for a special review of the Sri Lankan Human Rights Commission
(Bangkok/Geneva, 11...
