Month: September 2023

Conference Review Feb 22,2012 Conference on International Protection of Human Rights in the 21st Century – Case Study on Sri Lanka organized by Center for War Victims and Human Rights was held on Feb 21, 2012 at Pearson Conference Center, Toronto, Canada. Bracing the cold weather academics, lawyers, activists, MPs, and the…

UN report says unexploded cluster munitions found in Sri Lanka, appearing to confirm war use APNewsBreak: UN finds cluster bombs in Sri Lanka By RAVI NESSMAN | Associated Press  A report from a U.N. mine removal expert says unexploded cluster munitions have been found in northern Sri Lanka, appearing to confirm,…

COLOMBO, May 11, 2012 (IPS) – On May 18, some 800 women in Sri Lanka’s northern region will hold Hindu religious ceremonies for the welfare of thier husbands who disappeared or surrendered to the military as it moved in to mop up nearly three decades of armed Tamil separatism. “These…

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT AI Index: ASA 37/009/2012 13 June 2012 The Human Rights Situation in Sri Lanka, June 2012 A statement for the June Human Rights Council Session Sri Lanka is not fulfilling many of its international human rights obligations. Impunity remains the norm for gross violations of human…

FRANCES HARRISON THE GLOBE AND MAIL Last updated Friday, Nov. 16 2012, 4:37 PM EST It’s been called Ban Ki-moon’s Rwanda moment: a little-reported war three years ago on a tiny Indian Ocean island where tens of thousands of civilians were slaughtered, waiting for the United Nations to come and…

Feb 2013 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS Government attacks on the judiciary and political dissent have accelerated Sri Lanka’s authoritarian turn and threaten long-term stability and peace. The government’s politically motivated impeachment of the chief justice reveals both its intolerance of dissent and the weakness of the political opposition. By incapacitating…

25 June 2014 – Three distinguished experts have agreed to advise the United Nations-mandated investigation into alleged human rights violations committed during the final stages of the armed conflict in Sri Lanka. The experts are former Finnish President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Martti Ahtisaari, former Governor-General and High Court…

The main opposition United National Party has accused the Government of a stealthy reversal of its policy on probing alleged war crimes by surreptitiously taking steps to launch a domestic investigation using foreign expert advisors in the face of mounting international pressure. Issuing a statement yesterday, the UNP, which previously…

The 11-year old girl, who was raped by navy personnel, said that the men kidnapped her during the day, raped her and released her in the afternoons for 11 days, TNA MP Saravanabhavan told media, after visiting the victim’s parents in Karainagar. The MP said that the victim revealed that…

இலங்கையில் விடுதலைப் புலிகளின் திருகோணமலை மாவட்ட அரசியல்துறை பொறுப்பாளராக இருந்து, இறுதி யுத்தத்தின்போது இராணுவத்தினரிடம் சரணடைந்ததன் பின்னர் தகவல் தெரியாதுபோன எழிலன் உள்ளிட்ட 12 பேர் தொடர்பான ஆட்கொணர்வு மனுக்கள் மீதான விசாரணைகள் சிறப்பு நீதவான் ஒருவர் முன்னிலையிலேயே முல்லைத்தீவில் நடத்தப்படும் என்று திங்களன்று அறிவிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. வவுனியா மேல் நீதிமன்றத்தில் தாக்கல்செய்யப்பட்ட இந்த வழக்குகளில் சுட்டிக்காட்டப்பட்டுள்ள சம்பவங்கள் முல்லைத்தீவிலேயே நடந்துள்ளமையால், அவை பற்றிய விசாரணைகளை நடத்தி விபரங்களை அறிவிக்குமாறு முல்லைத்தீவு…