Image: Every leader commencing from Anagarika Dharmapala up to Gotabhaya who had led the country along this path have disrupted the country and carried...
Joint Statement by Adama Dieng, United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, and Karen Smith, United Nations Special Adviser on the Responsibility...
Image: Sandya Eknaligoda, holding a placard which says " protect Lakshan Dias's right to speak!" at a recently held protest against Justice Minister's remarks....
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...
( Jaffna invalid person carries load of firewood on his bicycle; Image Jogarajan facebook)
Issuing a statement welcoming the end-of-mission statement by the United Nations...
(Statement of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on minority issues, Rita Izsák-Ndiaye, on the conclusion of her official visit to Sri Lanka, 10-20 October...
(Rita Izsák Ndiaye, UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues speaking in Colombo; image courtesy of Daily Mirror)
By P K Balachandran.
COLOMBO: The US Special Rapporteur...
( Anti Muslim hate speech still exists in Sri Lanka)
Introduction.
1. Notes that Sri Lanka acceded to the International Convention on the Elimination of All...
(Discrimination against ethnic and ethno-religious minorities is one of the major themes of CERD)List of themes in relation to the combined tenth to seventeenth...
Sri Lanka is once again talking of electoral reform. After experimenting with two types of electoral systems – first-past-the-post (FPP) and proportional representation (PR),...
Now it’s 260 members: 165 FPP, 66 PR, 29 National List - Independent delimitation commission to work out new polling divisions.
The 20th Constitutional Amendment...
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...
