Image: Managala Samaraweera at UNHRC .2016.
Sri Lanka has voluntarily become a signatory to all human rights conventions passed at the UN over the years...
Image: N Photo / Violaine Martin 43rd session of the Human Rights Council.
The United Nations Human Rights Council has been given a mandate to collect...
The Global Tamil Forum (GTF) wholeheartedly welcomes the adoption of resolution 46/1 at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). The Government of Sri...
The UNHRC resolution "Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka" was adopted today with 22 votes. 11 Member states opposed the resolution...
Image: DMK chief M K Stalin.
Chennai: India must take a stand against Sri Lanka in the United Nations Human Rights Council session vis-a-vis the accountability...
TNA expects New Delhi to vote for resolution, says spokesman Sumanthiran.
Meera Srinivasan
The Tamil National Alliance’s (TNA) “hopes are high” that India will vote for...
The Sri Lankan government has taken several decisions recently that indicates and exacerbates a worrying trend of increased marginalization and targeting of Sri Lanka’s...
UNHRC needs to ensure that human rights and accountability developments in Sri Lanka firmly remain on the international agenda
The Global Tamil Forum (GTF) welcomes...
Image: Campaign held on 16 March 2021 by Civil society organizations, war-affected social groups, women’s organizations, and civilians of North East Sri-Lanka. (NECC photo)
We...
Image: at OMP office 30 Aug 2019. Disappeared in the South (1988-89); (c) S.Deshapriya
The old/new F word: accountability
Accountability is a word that is being...
Image: A priest conducts a mass burial for Easter Sunday bomb blast victims in Negombo, Sri Lanka on April 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe/timesofisrael)
As...
Image: Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa arrives at the Gangarama Temple in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Feb. 26. (Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP/Getty Images/ Washington Post)
"Freedom...
Response of the Tamil National Alliance to the statement of Hon. Dinesh Gunawardena the Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka to the United Nations Human Rights...
File photo: Ameer Faaiz speaking at a side event at UNHRC 2017 March. (c) s.deshapriya
This is an extremely challenging and fearful time for religious...
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...
Statement by Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Madam President,
This is a key juncture for the Council’s engagement with Sri Lanka. As my...
By Claudia Otto, Tamara Qiblawi and Stephanie Halasz, CNN.
Berlin (CNN)A German court has convicted a former Syrian regime officer for crimes against humanity, in a...
A coalition of 22 Organizations Calls for New UN Human Rights Council Resolution to Protect Human Rights, Justice, and Accountability in Sri Lanka
To the...
Zero draft of the resolution provided to Geneva based diplomatic missions by Sri Lanka core group titled Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in...
Government MP Wijeyadasa Rajapaksa says that he will complain to Sri Lanka’s IGP against threats made to him by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today (16),...
Fishers of the Mannar district were brutally attacked and humiliated by Sri-Lankan navy personnel in the mid-sea for three hours. This cruel incident occurred...
