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...
“Across the world, democracy and rule of law is on the retreat,” opined Kishali Pinto Jayawardena, Commissioner at the RTI Commission, Sri Lanka. “In...
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The ICJ today condemned the Sri Lankan cabinet’s approval of the proposed ban on face coverings, which, if adopted by Parliament...
The recommendations by a Commission appointed by the President, recommending that a large number of criminal cases that have been filed in the Courts...
The lawyers appearing for Chilavathurai-Mannar based poet Muhammadhu Ahnaf Jazeem have been sounding the alarm on the Counter Terrorism and Investigation Division (TID) allegedly...
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Context matters
The impact of law on individuals and communities is shaped by factors such as their ethnicity, religion, privilege, socio-economic status,...
Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith presided over the 21st of April commemoration with the participation of other religious leaders. Talking about the issue, he has said...
Report: Sri Lanka Briefing Note. April 2021
President Gotabhaya Rajapakse appointed a Commission of Inquiry chaired by retired Supreme Court Judge Upali Abeyratne and comprising...
Suren Fernando/@SurenFernando.
The GOSL Tabled the PortCityBill in Parliament on 8th April 2021.
1. The Bill provides for the establishment of a Commission consisting 5-7 persons appointed...
Image: True friends of the Cardinal Ranjith.
When the head of Sri Lanka’s Catholic Church asks in entirely inappropriate language as to whether Maithripala Sirisena,...
A crackdown on dissenting voices — those denouncing Islamophobia and criticizing the government — has Sri Lanka’s Muslims afraid to speak out.
By Tasnim Nazeer.
Since Sri...
The Election Commission (EC) has decided not to register political parties whose names have a reference to ethnicity or religion as, accoding to it,...
Image courtesy of CPJ.
Pegasus is a spyware created for mobile devices which transforms a cellphone into a mobile surveillance station. Researchers have documented it...
Image: This Ecocide mural was taken down by force.
By Navraj Singh-Ghaleigh and Asanga Welikala.
The Sri Lankan media is filled with worrying stories each day...
The Sri Lankan government has taken several decisions recently that indicates and exacerbates a worrying trend of increased marginalization and targeting of Sri Lanka’s...
Image: at OMP office 30 Aug 2019. Disappeared in the South (1988-89); (c) S.Deshapriya
The old/new F word: accountability
Accountability is a word that is being...
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...
