Brigadier K. K. S. Parakum of Mechanized Infantry Regiment has entered the Sampathnuwara District Hospital a few days ago and threatened the medical staff...
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Abduction and demands for ransom by some officers of Kuda oya Police Station.
Two young men named Wicramage Shanaka Chathuranga and Wicramage Eishan Chintaka Lakamal...
Amendments give Gotabaya Rajapaksa powers to sack ministers and limit oversight.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa delivers a policy speech in the Colombo parliament on 20 August...
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Public Statement on the Government management of the COVID-19 response
The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis, that is still evolving....
Calling of the President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka to condemn the police action in the strongest possible terms, the attorney representing...
Member of Parliament, TNA MP M. Sumanthran has presented a Private Member's Bill for the enactment of the "Public Health Emergency Act".
One week earlier...
Police, Judicial Officers Should End Arbitrary Arrests, Torture of LGBT People
(Colombo / October 20, 2020) – Sri Lankan authorities have subjected at least seven people...
1. On 4 October Sri Lanka’s newest Covid-19 cluster spreading within the Brandix-owned factory in Minuwangoda, Gampaha came to be known by an accident....
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Filing an application for mandates in the nature of Writ of Certiorari and/or Prohibition and/or Mandamus Under and in terms...
In a letter addressed to Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission, the recently formed Civil Society Collective for the Rights of FTZ Workers has requested...
Image: ILO/M. Crozet CC 3.0
16 October/WarOnWant) Sri Lanka’s worst Covid-19 outbreak has originated from a Brandix garment factory: 1,036 employees and 361 of...
Even as frightened and hapless garment workers slaving in the multitude of factories in the Gampaha District, the epicentre of Sri Lanka’s calamitous covid-19...
Weeping garment workers abruptly shoved into quarantine
Unions call for an immediate inquiry into factory COVID ops
Twenty-eight-year-old Kasuni is among hundreds of garment...
A Complaint has been made against Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva, Head of the National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO), Chief of...
The Sri Lankan authorities must release prominent human rights lawyer Hejaaz Hizbullah, who has been held in detention for more than six months under...
Journalists Shanmugam Thavaseelan and Kanapathipillai Kumanan, correspondents for the Tamil Guardian, were attacked by timber smugglers on October 12 when the journalists duo were...
According to the gazette notification issued by the Minister of Health today any person violators of the gazetted health guidelines will be subject to...
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The situation of Garment Factory Workers in Katunayaka – COVID-19 Update
By Marisa de Silva.
“The biggest mistake done by this Government and...
Image: A Brandix apparel factory in Sri Lanka; Courtesy: Brandix.
Health authorities believe the first reported Covid-19 infected worker from the Brandix factory in Minuwangoda...
Image: Army commander and police spokesperson brief media regularly on Covid 19 situation.
The largest cluster of corona patients in the country might not have...
Image: Abducted female workers say that food given to them is not properly cooked and cannot be eaten. (screenshot from the below video)
Fifty-three FTZ...
Brigadier K. K. S. Parakum of Mechanized Infantry Regiment has entered the Sampathnuwara District Hospital a few days ago and threatened the medical staff...
Dear Secretary Pompeo:
I am writing on behalf of Amnesty International and our 10 million members, supporters
and activists worldwide. Founded in 1961, Amnesty International is...
