At the recently concluded 21st meeting of the European Union-Sri Lanka Joint Commission Sri Lanka’s reaffirmed commitment to establishing the remaining mechanisms aimed at truth...
(SLB/19th Dec 2017) According to informed sources president Sirisena has not approved the nominated list of commissioners by the Constitutional Council (CC) for the...
Image: Zeid teld Sirisena that he will be more satisfied if this journey of Sri Lankan government will be speeded up.(Photo credit :PMD)
(PMD News) Sri Lanka’s reconciliation...
President Maithripala Sirisena has issued a gazette notification establishing the Office of Missing Persons (OMP) with effect from September 15 last night.
It was only...
Joint Statement in solidarity with Families of the Disappeared for International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearance
August 30, 2017.
Today marks the International Day of...
Image: Activists from South of Sri Lanka in discussion with mothers of the disappeared in Mullathive, on 22 July 2017. (c)s.deshapriya.
A Colombo based think...
Image: Day after Sirisena singed the OMP gazette mothers of the disappeared were still continuing their campaign for justice for 148th day in Vavunia...
Image: Mothers of the disappeared march in Colombo supporting the OMP act exactly one year ago. (c)s.deshapriya.
President Sirisena signed the Office on Missing Persons...
Amnesty International calls on the Sri Lankan authorities to immediately implement the much delayed Office on Missing Persons.
“The people of Sri Lanka cannot wait...
Image: Relatives of the disappeared marched in support of OMP and calling for its early establishment on on 30.08.2016 in Colombo. (c) s.deshapriya.
"More...
Image: Disappeared day 30.08.2016 in Colombo (c) s.deshapriya.
By Shiran Illanperuma.
Parliament last year approved the establishment of a Permanent Office for Missing Persons (OMP), in...
( Ms. Arulvathana Stephen Sunthararaj -in the middle- making her speech)
Speaking at a side event at UNHRC (place de nation) today Ms. Arulvathana Stephen Sunthararaj ...
(The Sri Lankan government has acknowledged that there could be as many as 65,000 people missing following three decades of civil war. Credit: Amantha...
The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka welcomes and commends the adoption of Office on Missing Persons (Establishment, Administration and Discharge of Functions) Act...
(May 2009: LTTE militants and suspects in military custody who went missing)
Brito Fernando – Chairman, Association of the Parents and Family Members of the...
(Ambassador Keshap, Chief Minister of the Northern Province C.V. Wigneswaran and Minister of National Coexistence, Dialogue & Official Languages Mano Ganesan on the way...
( TNA welcome the report presented by Zeid and wants International participation in TC mechanisms)
Issuing a statement to mark the 32 session of the...
(Waiting for justice:Photo: Amantha Perera/IRIN)
Another step towards implementing the UNHRC resolution was taken by Prime Minister Wickremesinghe last Tuesday. He obtained ministerial approval for...
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...
