RajithaThe Government today insisted that there was no deadline to complete the accountability process on the war.
Cabinet spokesman Dr. Rajitha Senaratne said that the...
(Statement to the Media by Hon. Mangala Samaraweera, Minister of Foreign Affairs after the Official Talks with Hon. Børge Brende, Minister of Foreign Affairs...
Sri Lankan’s death sentence for adultery reduced to three years in jail on appeal.
Saudi authorities have reduced a Sri Lankan woman’s sentence for adultery...
Three persons involved in the murder of ruggerite Wasim Thajudeen have been identified after analyzing CCTV footage. Among these are two persons attached to...
( US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Thomas Shannon)
The Foreign Ministry says that the US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs,...
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Wednesday reiterated his government’s position that it would not sign the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) with...
PHRE press release.
War Crime Investigations, a necessary step towards reconciliation People for Human Rights and Equality (PHRE) supports the Sri Lankan government’s effort to...
( 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...
(Sri Lanka Brief)
Read the full report as a PDF here:Political Party positions re UNHRC resolution on Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka resolution A/HRC/30/L.29 adopted by the...
In a wide ranging interview, Human Rights Watch Asian chief Brad Adams says that under Mahinda Rajapaksa, there was only “victor’s justice”, whereas today...
By Daya Gamage .
Garry Anandasangaree, 43, a well-established attorney-at-Law elected to Canadian parliament from Toronto's Scarborough Rouge Park Riding electoral district in the Canadian...
Major NGOs, int'l organisations recognize Tiger's mistreatment of Tamil civilians; LTTE killed Tamil civilians during final stages of war; Recruitment of child soldiers by...
(JVP general secretary Tilwin Silva speaking at seminar on Geneva resolution:Resolution poses a danger)
Truth and reconciliation is a project which inevitably needs to balance...
Photo courtesy New Europe
by Niran Anketell
The recent Human Rights Council resolution on Sri Lanka is a remarkable document. Crafted in the immediate aftermath of...
The Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) asked Sri Lanka to provide details on the assassination of four former Sri Lankan MPs, Deputy Speaker Thilanga Sumathipala...
(Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and his wife Maithree met Japan's Emperor and Empress during an official visit. )
Sri Lanka wants Japan to...
Domestic mechanism in accordance with Constitution.
We have won over international community.
Govt's approach appreciated by UN, UNHRC
This government was able to change the...
By Namini Wijedasa.
American influence peddler registers his deals only after exposures in the Sunday Times and Foreign Policy Magazine
For three consecutive years, the Auditor...
President of the United States Barack Obama praised President Maithripala Sirisena’s commitment and actions taken for strengthening of democracy and good governance in Sri...
( Families of the disappeared call for justice, June 2015, at UNHRC)
Women’s Action Network (WAN) welcomes the OISL report presented on Wednesday to the...
Statement by Sri Lankan Civil Society members on OHCHR reports on Sri Lanka.
We the undersigned Sri Lankan civil society activists and organisations welcome the...
(Press Release)
Together Against Genocide (TAG) unreservedly welcomes the report of the OHCHR Investigation on Sri Lanka. We urge the government of Sri Lanka to...
( Former President Rajapaksa with Military leaders)
ECONOMYNEXT - The first UN war crimes report on Sri Lanka has identified several top militrary and police...
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...
