Image: On March 31 the vaccines were officially handed over to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa by China's Ambassador to Sri Lanka Qi Zhenhong.
Issuing a statement...
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...
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...
File photo: Ameer Faaiz speaking at a side event at UNHRC 2017 March. (c) s.deshapriya
This is an extremely challenging and fearful time for religious...
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders, expresses concern over the timing and purpose of the Pakistan Prime...
The government must heed the advice of eminent Sri Lankan medical professionals and enable burial of COVID-19 dead – civil society statement.
(4 January 2021)...
By Reuters Staff
(Reuters) - The European Union officially launched its mass COVID-19 vaccination programme on Sunday with the goal of making shots available to all...
In the Congo rainforest, the doctor who discovered Ebola warns of deadly viruses yet to come.
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo — Showing early...
Image: There is widespread concern about the militarisation of the COVID response and broader militarisation under the cover of COVID. Yet, militarisation too is...
File photo from AsiaNews.
In a letter address to PM Rajapaksa United Nations resident coordinator Hana Singer says that "Considering the evidenced-based guidance of the...
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....
It has been the same story since the beginning of the covid-19 outbreak—cancelled orders, production drops or halts due to the lockdowns, drying out...
The apparel industry fears job losses owing to the COVID-19 pandemic-led downturn in business will be far worse than expected, as order books beyond...
Image Courtesy fo IANS.
When globalisation was the dominant concept for looking at the world, pandemics were discussed as a global security issue. The objective...
Forty Sri Lankans who had migrated abroad for employment have died of COVID-19, according to the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE).
Chairman of...
Doctors should be ‘on the lookout’ for heart complications in patients, BHF says.
Jane Kirby
More than half of heart scans among hospitalised Covid-19 patients are abnormal, suggesting the virus may have...
The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL, the Commission) observes that a large number of persons have been arrested and vehicles confiscated for...
Image courtesy of "Time"
GENEVA (3 June 2020) - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet expressed alarm at the clampdown on freedom of...
The Sri Lankan government has declared its intention to rule without parliamentary oversight for the first time in the country’s modern history, potentially sparking...
Friday Forum: AN APPEAL TO THE PRESIDENT.
Mr President, the coronavirus pandemic has been declared a national and global public health emergency by the WHO....
Image: ‘Our clinics for respiratory disease meant we could look out for community transmission’: KK Shailaja, health minister.
by Laura Spinney./The Guardian.
On 20 January, KK...
Yamini Perera.
“Life doesn’t battle you because you’re weak, it battles you because you’re strong. Growth takes place when you are challenged, not when you...
The COVID-19 Pandemic is a unique global health crisis and requires a response across national boundaries. Throughout the world, Government institutions, the private sector,...
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...
