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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...
Sri Lanka is facing an unprecedented rise in the number of cases, with the highly infectious B.1.1.7 strain spreading rapidly across the country. The...
A remote island has been chosen by Sri Lanka's government for the burial of Covid-19 victims from the minority Muslim and Christian communities.
The government...
Sri Lanka continues to maintain its policy of mandatory cremations for COVID dead, which has deeply distressed the Muslim community whose faith prohibits cremation....
Issuing a statement on the 73rd Independence Day, Colombo based advocacy Think Tank Centre for Policy Alternatives states that "If the government is unwilling...
Image: Activists protest in Sri Lanka against the discriminatory treatment of migrant workers. ( FB photo, January 2021)
The year 2020 was a horrible year...
The project of President Gotabaya seems to be the conversion of Sri Lanka from an uninterrupted, long-standing democracy and open society, into a second...
Image: Covid dead are being buried in NewYork' (Photo courtesy of AP tweeter)
The expert committee appointed by the Health Ministry to study the issue...
“The dignity of the dead, their cultural and religious traditions, and their families should be respected and protected throughout.” —World Health Organization, Infection prevention...
Image caption: Sri Lanka’s president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, was elected last year on a wave of anti-Muslim sentiment. Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock/TG.
The country insists all people who...
Image: The current controversy over Muslim burial issue has become handy to deflect the growing anti-regime anger. Saner minds from all communities are appealing...
While appreciating Sri Lanka’s relative success with the management of COVID-19, the Global Tamil Forum (GTF) would like to express its strong condemnation of...
The parents of the 20-day-old infant who was cremated against their wishes filed a Fundamental Rights application before the Supreme Court through their Attorney...
Yesterday a small group of about 40-50 people belonging to all ethnic and religious backgrounds, gathered (whilst maintaining social distancing and wearing masks of...
Travelers should avoid all travel to Sri Lanka.
Travel may increase your chance of getting and spreading COVID-19.
If you must travel:
Before you travel, get tested with a viral...
Colombo, Dec 1 (PTI) Sri Lanka's Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed petitions filed by members of the Muslim community against the government's regulation that...
Image: Recently the public was shocked to see a man being caught by villagers, swathed in polythene.
The COVID-19 pandemic has created new challenges for...
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Issuing observations and recommendations on the disposal of dead bodies in
the context of COVID-19 Human Rights Commission of Sri...
Image: Hanaa Singer.
Ven. Jamburawela Chandraratne Thera, representing the People's Responsibility Centre (PRC), has criticised the United Nations (UN) Resident Coordinator to Sri Lanka, Hanaa...
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...
