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...
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A little over a month after the Presidential election, in January 2020 a Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) into...
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...
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...
"Given the continued reluctance of the Sri Lankan Government to meaningfully uphold the human rights of all, only decisive, international action to ensure justice...
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...
First time since 1995 that the subject of corporal punishment comes before the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court this week reaffirmed that corporal punishment in...
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Sri Lanka's government bonds tumbled on Tuesday as warnings that the country was at increasing risk of default continued to mount...
Appreciating the acquittal and release of Shakthika Sathkumara, the creative writer arrested indiscriminately under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Act Free...
Image: A protest in Colombo in December over the Sri Lankan government’s policy of forced cremations in Covid-19 deaths. Photograph: Ishara S Kodikara/AFP/Getty (...
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The Rajapaksa regime and family were directly implicated in the alleged war crimes at the end of the civil war.
Ambassador Eileen...
Image: Overview of the United Nations Human Rights Council is seen in Geneva, Switzerland June 6, 2017. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe...
Image: United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP -timesofisrael)
The government of Sri Lanka has sent its "Observations of the GoSL...
image: Uruwarige Wannilaeththo.
Sri Lanka’s leader of Indigenous people (Wadda community) Uruwarige Wannilaeththo and the Center for Environmental Justice today (08) filed a writ petition...
In the court order banning the demonstration named “Pottuvil to Poligandy” or “P2P” in Kaluvanchikudy police area the magistrate says that he is satisfied...
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UN human rights experts have expressed their deep concern on 5 February 2021 about the reversal of important democratic gains achieved since 2015...
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The External Affairs Minister bats for Sri Lankan Constitution’s 13th amendment that talks...
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...
