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...
File photo of Welikada Prions, Sri Lanka.
"Committee for the Protection of Rights of the Prisoners" in Sri Lanka has requested the International Committee of...
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In a joint letter, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa Sri Lanka Medical Professional Associations proposed 8 important recommendations to be implemented to control...
Original photo courtesy of The Hindu.
Spotlight on minority rights, and ‘draconian’ anti-terrorism law modelled on South Africa’s Apartheid-era legislation.
Daily-wage agricultural labourer Abdul Ghafoor Muhammadhu...
Colombo Additional Magistrate Mrs. Rajindra Jayasuriya has reprimanded the youth who encouraged fellow citizens to honk vehicle horns in protest of stopping vehicles in...
Proponents of militarisation claim the Sri Lanka military is more efficient, competent & uses public resources more prudently than SL public service. Findings of...
Writing a letter to President Rajapaksa, detained MP Rishad Bathiudeen’s wife says that “the PCoI report had found Gnanasara Thero and his activities as one...
NPP Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake makes hard hitting speech during last week's debate on the final report of the CoI into Political Victimisation.
There is...
(New York) – Sri Lanka’s parliament should reject a resolution to exonerate officials implicated in human rights abuses and to prosecute police and prosecutors investigating...
The second year anniversary of the Easter bombings that primarily targeted Christian churches took place last month with the motivations and masterminds of the...
The DDoS attack is a sequel to a similar event that occurred in March last year
ECONOMYNEXT- Sri Lanka’s Colombo Gazette news website crashed yesterday...
Asela Sampath, National Organiser of All Ceylon Restaurant Owners Association and the Convener of the Movement for the Protection of Public Rights, who was...
Sri Lanka is at dire risk of a new wave of Covid-19 infections. Several professional organisations such as the Association of Public Health Inspectors...
The parliamentary resolution tabled by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa would aggravate Sri Lanka’s culture of impunity and undermine the rule of law, said the...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP).
Sri Lankan police on Saturday arrested a prominent Muslim lawmaker and his brother over suspected connections to the Easter Sunday suicide...
Sri Lanka is at dire risk of a new wave of Covid-19 infections. Several professional organisations such as the Association of Public Health Inspectors...
Total pay-outs enough to vaccinate 1.3 billion people, equal to the population of Africa.
Ahead of shareholder meetings for the giant pharmaceutical corporations, the People’s...
Image: Sion Church by Shreen Saroor.
Thirty-one died in the suicide attack on Zion evangelical church in Batticaloa on 21st April 2019, of which 14 were...
The National Transport Medical Institute (NTMC) has launched an investigation into the alleged conduct of two female officers stationed at the Gampaha and Ratnapura...
File photo of Sri Lanka Navy.
Fishers of Valaipadu fisher village of Pooneryn Division of Kilinochchi District have been tortured, punished and humiliated by the...
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...
