Last week, Sri Lanka’s new government formally withdrew its support for UN Human Rights Council (HRC) resolution 30/1 – thereby pulling the plug on its long-standing...
Former Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera has said that the decision to co-sponsor Geneva Resolution 30/1 was taken by the yahapalana government under the leadership...
Colombo, Dec 20 (PTI) Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has said he cannot entertain the 2015 UN Human Rights Council resolution co-sponsored by the...
COLOMBO, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka's new government will make a fresh presentation to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), explaining all...
Indicating that the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution was a priority for President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s administration, Foreign Affairs Minister Dinesh Gunawardena yesterday...
Mangala Samaraweera.
At a Press Conference on 15 October 2019, Presidential Candidate of the SLPP, Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa, dismissed Sri Lanka’s commitments to our citizens...
(01 July 2918/ST)The newly gazetted Office for Reparations Bill will provide for “individual reparations” as well as “collective reparations”, which will include monetary payment...
Statement on United States Relations with Sri Lanka.
June 21, 2018: Secretary Pompeo has announced that the United States withdrew from the United Nations Human...
(Foreign Affairs Minister Mangala Samaraweera speaking at yesterday’s press conference. Picture by Wimal Karunathilake)
Talks progressing on type of mechanism; Of the type all stakeholders...
( Sri Lanka Delegation to the HRC 32)
A number of countries voiced their support for the High Commissioner’s oral update today and re-asserted their...
Speech by Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera at the Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (NUPI), Oslo, 21 June 2016.
Ladies and Gentlemen, in fact all of...
( War zone, May 2009, Sri Lanka)
Minister of Regional Development, Field Marshall Sarath Fonseka has said that he welcomes for international involvement on war...
by Zachary Edward Walko
The South Asian Centre for Legal Studies (SACLS) held a panel discussion to present their recommendations for a roadmap for implementation...
( U.N. resolution calls for all alleged war crimes to be investigated and tried in special courts by international judges)
By Idrees Ali.
WASHINGTON - Sri...
by Mahinda Rajapaksa.
The President and Prime Minister have given the UN Human Rights Commissioner an assurance that last year’s UN Human Rights Council resolution...
UN Special Rapporteur coming here to help in the consultation process.
Two-phase action plan shown to Western countries and India.
An eleven-member Consultation Task Force...
The Sri Lankan government will next week begin consultations on the design of domestic mechanism that will look into the allegations of human rights...
by Easwaran Rutnam.
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has urged the government to review all cases of detainees held under the...
By Australian Advocacy for Good Governance in Sri Lanka.
A hard-hitting UN Human Rights Council report in September this year contained details of numerous allegations...
AFP/ Former president Chandrika Kumaratunga, who heads the office of national unity and reconciliation, said her work cannot be done without justice for victims...
( President Maithripala Sirisena and Justice C.G. Weeramantry lighting the traditional oil lamp at the felicitation ceremony)
President Maithripala Sirisena has said that with judges...
The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) yesterday took a non-committal stand on the issue of foreign judges sitting on war crimes tribunals expected...
(Mangala Samaraweera speaking at the APC, round 2)
All Party Conference (APC) on the implementation of Geneva resolution has not been able to come to...
Cropped photo from the original by Sindu S
Sri Lankan police across Batticaloa have arrested 19 people for allegedly posting birthday wishes online for Liberation...
In a letter addressed to Commissioner General of Prison, HRCSL has said that "the health and security of all prisoners including remandees, remain the...
1. Senior Superintendent of Police and former Criminal Investigations Department (CID) Director Shani Abeysekara was arrested on 31 July 2020, by the Colombo Crime...
The daughter of murdered journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge and four other family members of missing persons have requested the Attorney General to provide urgent medical...
