Image: Owners of the land waking towards their land after 27 years.
(SLArmy) Responding positively to the concerns of the public, Members of Parliament (MPs)...
By Manekshaw.
Illankai Tamil Arasu Katchchi (ITAK) leader and Tamil National Alliance Parliamentarian Mavai S. Senathirajah became the first high profile Internally Displaced Person (IDP)...
Rita Izsák-Ndiaye at the side event (c)s.deshapriya.
Ms. Rita Izsák-Ndiaye, the UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues speaking at a side event on 17th March...
Image: Women led peaceful agitations calling for releasing their land has intensified in recent times. (photo @garrikaalan)
Sending a open letter to the president Sirisena,...
Image: protesting villagers Keppapilavu by @shalin.
We, the undersigned civil society organizations, write this statement to express solidarity with protestors of Keppapilavu and condemn the...
(Image cortesy of IRIN/Amantha Perera)
By P K Balachandran.
COLOMBO: The Chief Minister of Sri Lanka’s Tamil-majority Northern Province, C.V.Wigneswaran, has refuted an allegation made by...
(Internally displaced woman in a Welfare Centre in the Jaffna area, Northern Sri Lanka, January 2016.)
On 16 August 2016, the Sri Lankan Cabinet approved...
T. Ramakrishnan.
Sri Lankan security forces have released 700 more acres and the Kankesanthurai railway station in the Northern Province, a few days before the...
( Image: A Tamil woman worshiping- AP Photo -Eranga Jayawardena)
“Seven years have elapsed since the end of the armed conflict in the country.
Several hundred...
(Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena -File|AP)
By P.K.Balachandran.
COLOMBO: The Maithripala Sirisena government has allocated LKR 14,000 million (USD 95.8 million) in 2016 for the rehabilitation...
PTI- Colombo: Sri Lanka will by year-end resettle all people, including the minority Muslims and the Sinhalese, who were displaced during the nearly three-decade-long...
( Myliddy; image courtesy Tamildiplomat)
Tamil politicians this week stepped up calls on the Sri Lankan military to release occupied land in the fishing village...
( Building houses for IDPs in North, a Habitat photo)
The government has allocated Rs. 14 billion for high impact resettlement projects in the Northern...
(The Opposition Leader and the Leader Of Tamil National Alliance Hon. R . Sampanthan met with visiting Norwegian Deputy Foreign Minister Tore Hattrem on...
(Thousands of houses in Jaffna were destroyed during the war)
Cabinet has decided to appoint a ministerial committee chaired by the President and including the...
President Maithripala Sirisena has given instructions to the relevant officials to finalize the process of identification of lands for the resettlement of internally displaced...
(Canadian Tamil Congress with the support of Trincomalee Welfare Association (Canada) committed to build temporary houses for these 41 women headed families. A little...
A team of experts from Moratuwa University has found that 65,000 steel houses, to be constructed in Jaffna by ArcelorMittal multinational steel company, are...
(Vikalka photo: Sinhalese IDPs in Panama)
It is imperative that the Government sets out a time frame for expediting resettlement and ensure that the bulk...
Image: Nada Al-Nashif, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights making concluding remarks at the ID on Sri Lanka report.
Making interventions at the interactive dialogue at...
Many reports of the United Nations and International Human Rights organisations such as Human Rights Watch have documented human rights violations by LTTE for...
Image: Every leader commencing from Anagarika Dharmapala up to Gotabhaya who had led the country along this path have disrupted the country and carried...
