In his message to the high-level meeting to Commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations on 21 September 2020, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa says...
Speaking at UN Security Council Open Debate on ‘Peacebuilding and sustaining peace: Transitional justice in conflict and post-conflict situations’ on 13 February 2020, Permanent...
Image: In March 2017 Ai Weiwei launched a massive sculpture featuring 70 metre long boat with 258 refugees (www.creativeboom.com)
An overview of the definition of refugee...
Joint Statement by Adama Dieng, United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, and Karen Smith, United Nations Special Adviser on the Responsibility...
Dhathusen yahapalana. (A paralegal apprentice)
According to news reports, former Defence Secretary and Presidential aspirant Gotabaya Rajapaksa is facing two civil suits in separate cases...
The Delegation of the European Union (EU) issues the following statement in agreement with the Embassies of France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Romania and the...
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's main minority Tamil party demanded Friday that foreign judges be included in a special court to investigate war crimes, a day after...
Image: File photo of alt-Sinahala nationalist demo against international involvement in a justice mechanism.
(20/03/ 2019 Geneva) The ICJ today called at the UN for...
Image : (c) S.Deshapriya.
REMARKS BY THE SECRETARY-GENERAL ON THE OCCASION OF THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GENEVA ASSOCIATION OF UNITED NATIONS CORRESPONDENTS.
(25 February 2019/...
New York/10 November 2018.
Statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on developments in Sri Lanka.
The Secretary-General learned with concern of President Maithripala Sirisena's decision...
ECONOMYNEXT - The United Nations Secretary General António Guterres has expressed concern over Sri Lanka's political crisis and has asked for democracy and constitution...
Since 2012, several landmark resolutions have been approved by various UN bodies on the issue of the safety of journalists. IFEX's 5-minute guide explains...
(26 Sep 2018)President Maithripala Sirisena called upon the international community to look at Sri Lanka with a fresh perspective and consider the tremendous progress...
Image: United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman meeting with TNA. ( Asian tribune)
On March 11, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman...
Image: Jeffrey Feltman addresses a press conference in Colombo on March 3, 2015. LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI/AFP/GETTY/CBS.
(AFP) The UN's political chief on Sunday condemned anti-Muslim violence that...
Image; Harsha de Silva, Deputy Minister of National Policies and Economic Affairs of Sri Lanka ( file photo)
Making the opening statement at the Third...
Families still wait for answers two years after the UN called on Sri Lanka to address war crimes and disappearances.
For the last decade, Arulanadam...
President Maithripala Sirisena called upon the international community to seriously consider the tremendous progress made by the government towards reconciliation, restoration of democratic freedoms,...
Image: Family members of the disappeared during the war continue their protests in Northern Province of Sri Lanka. (c) s.deshapriya.
By Kate Cronin-Furman.
Early Tuesday morning,...
Image: Sri Lanka's then army chief General Jagath Jayasuriya (C) takes part in a Buddhist ceremony in Anuradhapura on October 2, 2010.
RIO DE JANEIRO —...
Image: UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism, Ben Emmerson, at a media briefing at the conclusion of his mission to Sri Lanka.
Preliminary findings...
File photo: CESCR in session.
The 61st the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights discusses Sri Lanka situation today and tomorrow in Palais Wilson...
Public Statement on the Government management of the COVID-19 response
The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis, that is still evolving. Despite early efforts that...
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...
