Dear Secretary Pompeo:
I am writing on behalf of Amnesty International and our 10 million members, supporters
and activists worldwide. Founded in 1961, Amnesty International is...
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Public Statement on the Government management of the COVID-19 response
The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis, that is still evolving....
Calling of the President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka to condemn the police action in the strongest possible terms, the attorney representing...
Police, Judicial Officers Should End Arbitrary Arrests, Torture of LGBT People
(Colombo / October 20, 2020) – Sri Lankan authorities have subjected at least seven people...
1. On 4 October Sri Lanka’s newest Covid-19 cluster spreading within the Brandix-owned factory in Minuwangoda, Gampaha came to be known by an accident....
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Filing an application for mandates in the nature of Writ of Certiorari and/or Prohibition and/or Mandamus Under and in terms...
In a letter addressed to Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission, the recently formed Civil Society Collective for the Rights of FTZ Workers has requested...
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16 October/WarOnWant) Sri Lanka’s worst Covid-19 outbreak has originated from a Brandix garment factory: 1,036 employees and 361 of...
Weeping garment workers abruptly shoved into quarantine
Unions call for an immediate inquiry into factory COVID ops
Twenty-eight-year-old Kasuni is among hundreds of garment...
A Complaint has been made against Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva, Head of the National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO), Chief of...
Journalists Shanmugam Thavaseelan and Kanapathipillai Kumanan, correspondents for the Tamil Guardian, were attacked by timber smugglers on October 12 when the journalists duo were...
According to the gazette notification issued by the Minister of Health today any person violators of the gazetted health guidelines will be subject to...
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The situation of Garment Factory Workers in Katunayaka – COVID-19 Update
By Marisa de Silva.
“The biggest mistake done by this Government and...
Image: A Brandix apparel factory in Sri Lanka; Courtesy: Brandix.
Health authorities believe the first reported Covid-19 infected worker from the Brandix factory in Minuwangoda...
Image: Abducted female workers say that food given to them is not properly cooked and cannot be eaten. (screenshot from the below video)
Fifty-three FTZ...
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Arguing that what the country need is a new constitution, the Catholic Bishops Conference has called on the...
ECONOMYNEXT – A section of Sri Lanka’s powerful Buddhist clergy is opposing a Constitutional Amendment proposed by the government of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa which...
Tamil Guardian reports that two of their correspondents were assaulted this morning by four persons in Murippu, Mullaitivu, while reporting on illegal logging and...
Health Minister Pavitra Wanniarachchi has warned that all those violating health safety regulations would be arrested and remanded for a period of six months,...
Colombo (News 1st); Sri Lanka Police said 1402 workers were attached to the Minuwangoda Brandix Factory and all those were not moved into quarantine...
Image: Dayani Mendis, Deputy Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations Office at Geneva speaking at HRC 45.
The government is being criticised...
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The Free Media Movement strongly condemns the attack carried out on the Derana TV journalist Indunil Wijenayake in Monaragala, while he was...
Given Sri Lanka’s majoritarian turn, appeals to address Tamil aspirations may be ineffectual.
India’s appeal to Sri Lanka to address the aspirations of its Tamil...
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The following are the observations of the BASL Committee appointed to study and submit views on the proposed 20th.
Amendment to...
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On 15 October, the Sri Lankan authorities imposed a curfew in parts of Katunayake Free Trade Zone (KFTZ) after hundreds of...
Brigadier K. K. S. Parakum of Mechanized Infantry Regiment has entered the Sampathnuwara District Hospital a few days ago and threatened the medical staff...
