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...
The Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into Political Victimisation has suggested the establishment of a Special Presidential Commission of Inquiry to make recommendations to Parliament...
File photo: These arrested alleged LTTE militants by Sri Lanka military. Their whereabouts are still unknown.
In her report on Sri Lanka to the upcoming...
Image: the tasks encompassed within its mandate have already been performed by the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC, 2011)
The recent appointment by President...
