UNCAT

United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT Committee) has published its concluding observations after considering the 5th Periodic Report of Sri Lanka. A high level delegation from Sri Lanka met the members of the CAT Committee on 15th and 16th November 2016. The most comprehensive set of recommendations made by the CAT Committee on Sri Lanka […]

Image: Sri Lanka police; AFP photo. by Press TV. The United Nations Committee against Torture has urged Sri Lanka to investigate documented allegations of rape and torture of detainees by security forces. The UN committee on Wednesday called on the government in Colombo to rein in “broad police powers.” The committee’s report also drew attention […]

Image: Felice D. Gaer, one of the two committee experts who led the examination of Sri Lanka. NYT/By NICK CUMMING-BRUCEDEC. GENEVA — President Maithripala Sirisena swept to a surprising election victory about two years ago promising political changes and human rights protections in Sri Lanka. On Wednesday, a United Nations committee questioned the government’s commitment […]

Reuters/ By Stephanie Nebehay and Ranga Sirilal | GENEVA/COLOMBO. A U.N. rights watchdog called on Sri Lanka on Wednesday to investigate “routine torture” of detainees by security forces and rebuked its government for failing to prosecute war crimes committed during the country’s 26-year civil war. The Sri Lankan military finally vanquished the separatist Liberation Tigers […]

Image: UNCAT session on Sri Lanka, 15 Nov 2016. Written Additional Information submitted by the Government of Sri Lankaonthe 5th Periodic Report to the UN Committee Against Torture (CAT).  Definition on Torture  On the specific reference that the Act No. 22 of 1994 does not contain the word “suffering”, it may be noted that, the […]

Image: UNCAT 59 in session. The United Nations Committee Against Torture (UNCAT) is holding its 59th session from November 7 to December 7 in Geneva, Switzerland. Sri Lanka was recently under the microscope of the committee and, to put it mildly, things did not go smoothly. The fact that Sisira Mendis, Sri Lanka’s chief of […]

Image: UNCAT59 in session. COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE CONSIDERS REPORT OF SRI LANKA . The Committee against Torture completed this afternoon its consideration of the fifth periodic report of Sri Lanka on the implementation of the provisions of the Convention against Torture. Introducing the report, Mr. Jayantha Jayasuriya, PC, Attorney-General of Sri Lanka, said that the […]