The UN Resolution 30/1 on Sri-Lanka was adopted by the Council along with the co-spon-sorship of Sri-Lanka to ensure truth, justice, reparation and non-recurrence...
Image: When will Sri Lanka respond to the mothers waiting for a decade to find answers on their disappeared children? (c) Vikalpa.
(Daily Mirror 14'.03 .19)...
Are we beginning to see a new trend in Presidential Governance?
What exactly will the special Presidential Trio sent to the United Nations Human Rights...
(Asian Mirror 06.03.19)President Maithripala Sirisena said UPFA MPs Mahinda Samarasinghe, Dr. Sarah Amunugama and Northern Province Governor Dr. Suren Raghavan will attend the 40th...
(The Island/03.04, 2019,) A delegation consisting of representatives of at least four Tamil political parties is scheduled to head for Geneva to lobby the United...
Image: Ambassador A.L.A. Azeez.
(Ceylon Today/29. 02/19) There will be no Government delegation flying to Geneva, Switzerland to be present at the United Nations (UN) Human...
27 February 2019
Human Rights Council 40th session: draft resolution
Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka
The Human Rights Council,
PP1 Reaffirming the...
(26 February 2019 / Daily Mirror) Megapolis and Western Development Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka said he submitted a Cabinet memorandum asking for general amnesty to...
President says troops did not commit war crimes; his proposal being studied by Foreign Ministry.
Sri Lanka is considering withdrawing its co-sponsorship of the United...
Image: UK Ambassador to UN, Julian Braithwaite at the Human Rights Council organisational meeting yesterday. ( photo credit @JulianUNWTO)
UK Statement:Human Rights Council organisational meeting held on...
Statement by Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Madam President,
This is a key juncture for the Council’s engagement with Sri Lanka. As my...
By Claudia Otto, Tamara Qiblawi and Stephanie Halasz, CNN.
Berlin (CNN)A German court has convicted a former Syrian regime officer for crimes against humanity, in a...