UN Special Rapporteur on torture Manfred Nowak said Monday that torture was widespread and routine throughout Sri Lanka. Nowak visited Sri Lanka in early October and reported to the Third Committee ...
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Sri Lanka activists quit human rights advisory panel over ongoing violations
Four prominent Sri Lankan human rights activists have resigned from a government advisory panel to protest Sri Lanka's worsening human rights situation, including ongoing extradjudicial killings, activist and lawyer Nimalka Fernando said Monday. The four submitted their...
Sri Lanka rejects Arbour call for UN rights monitoring mission
Sri Lankan and visiting UN officials disagreed publicly Saturday on how to approach the country's worsening human rights situation in the midst of ongoing civil conflict. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour said at a...
The Sri Lankan government is responsible for a dramatic increase in unlawful killings, enforced disappearances and other serious human rights violations since the resumption of hostilities in 2006 with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) [CFR...
Sri Lanka Supreme Court stops forced Tamil evictions as president promises probe
The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka stopped the forced eviction of ethnic Tamils from the capital city of Colombo Friday, calling the government "misguided" in its latest attempt to reduce attacks by the separatist Liberation Tigers of...
Alleged US head of Sri Lankan terrorist group pleads not guilty to charges
Karunakaran Kandasamy, the alleged director of the American branch of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) , and four other defendants pleaded not in US federal court guilty Monday to charges of providing material support...
Sri Lanka using anti-terror laws to silence dissident journalists: HRW
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Thursday that the government of Sri Lanka is using its anti-terror legislation to silence journalists who expose governmental human rights abuses and corruption or question how...
Saudi executions of Sri Lankan robbers violated international law: HRW
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused the Saudi government of violating international law when it beheaded four Sri Lankan robbers and placed their bodies on public display in the country's capital, Riyadh, on Monday. According...
France foreign minister decries illegal use of child soldiers as global conference opens
French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy Monday cautioned countries against the illegal and unacceptable use of child soldiers in armed conflicts at the opening of Free Children from War , a two-day global conference in Paris drawing...
Rights group urges investigation of child conscription in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka is "complicit or willfully blind" to the child conscription efforts of the rebel group Karuna , according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report published Wednesday that alleges the government has helped Karuna...