AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT -JUNE 2012 Posted on September 27, 2023 By Admin 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 rights, including alleged war crimes. Gross and systematic human rights violations continue to take place. Sri Lanka’s armed conflict ended in 2009, but its legacy of unlawful detention practices continues; arbitrary arrest and detention, torture and other ill-treatment and custodial killings remain hallmarks of Sri Lankan policing. The number of reports of enforced disappearances in the past six months is alarming; political activists critical of the state continue to be victims. Intimidation and smear campaigns against human rights defenders and journalists in government-owned newspapers have included attacks on individuals advocating for human rights accountability before this Council. Read Full Article http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/ASA37/009/2012/en/292a44d4-894c-4d8c-bf24-a78329e67ca6/asa370092012en.pdf Uncategorized
OHCHR Investigation on Sri Lanka (OISL) Posted on September 27, 2023September 27, 2023 Terms of Reference Mandate and reporting obligations In its resolution A/HRC/25/1 adopted in March 2014 on “Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka”, the United Nations Human Rights Council requested the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to “undertake a comprehensive investigation into alleged serious violations and abuses of human… Read More
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