Image: Manouri Muttetuwegama, Chair of the Disappearance commission appointed by President Kumaratunga and Chair of the Reconciliation Task Force appointed by the previous government...
Image: Justice Upali Abeyrathna handing over the final report of the Commission on Political Victimisation to President Rajapaksa.
In a letter addressed to United Nations...
Image: A scene from the film ‘paangshu’
Human rights issues related to enforced disappearances in Sri Lanka still continue. The grievances and the anxieties of...
Tamil families of the disappeared rallied across the North-East today to mark International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. Families demonstrated in districts...
Mandates of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances; ; the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions; the Special Rapporteur on...
Image: On the memorial wall, International day for the disappeared 2019, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
In a televised statement issued on 28 June 2020 Prime Minister...
Image: Families of Sri Lanka’s missing thousands fear the government is aiming to curb investigations into unsolved civil war disappearances.
(COLOMBO/thenewhumanitarian)
Rights groups are warning of...
7th April 2020 .
His Excellency Gotabaya Rajapaksa, President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Presidential Secretariat, Colombo 1.
Your Excellency
Families of the missing...
"A journalist asked the President how the government would face the consequences of withdrawing from co-sponsoring the UNHRC resolution on Sri Lanka. The Geneva...
Image:Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, center attends an event to mark the anniversary of country's independence from British colonial rule in Colombo, Sri Lanka,...
For the third successive year, Families of the Disappeared (FoD) celebrated the “Missing Lovers Day" On 14th February in Colombo at the Vihara Maha Devi...
Image: Vikalpa
(14 February 2020)
In Sri Lanka, many families of the forcibly disappeared mark 14 February as ‘Missing Lovers Day’ in remembrance of their...
The Office on Missing Persons (OMP) was established under the Office on Missing Persons (Establishment, Administration, and Discharge of Functions) Act, No. 14 of...
Image: Attorney General (left) and Navy Commander Admiral Wasantha Karannagoda (right) at the 70th Independence Day celebration.
One of the stranger if not outlandish manifestations...
Jan 27, Colombo: The Presidential Commission inquiring into incidents of alleged political victimization has issued an order preventing the Permanent High Court from proceeding...
(January 26, 2020)
Last week, President Gotabaya Rajapakse had told U.N. Resident Coordinator Ms. Hanaa Singer that those reported missing from the war are “actually...
Today, 10th January 2020, is 10 years since the disappearance of journalist and cartoonist Prageeth Ekneligoda. It also marks 10 years of struggle for truth...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday informed the United Nations Resident Coordinator Hanna Singer his government would give support to families of missing persons in order...
(OFFICE ON MISSING PERSONS/MEDIA RELEASE/15 January 2020)
Recent media reports have claimed that the government plans to review the Office on Missing Persons (Establishment, Administration...
Issuing a statement the National Peace Council has listed three issues that can have impact upon inter-community relations with the state.
The statement says that...
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...
