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The Anti-Terrorism Bill, which was published on March 22, 2023, is intended to replace the “notorious” PTA, HRW said...
Sri Lanka has fulfill some key international conventions to be eligible for GSP+ renewal
HRW said that Sri Lanka should ensure that anti-corruption reforms provide accountability.
Thalduwa further claimed that Sri Lanka Police uses teargas produced by internationally recognised companies.
Sri Lanka Foreign Ministry says the OHCHR report is unwarranted, preposterous
Sri Lanka's Parliament has called for applications to fill vacancies in its Office on Missing Persons (OMP).
Eleven leading Buddhist Monks have written to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa asking him to take action regarding a stateme...
The 46th sessions of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) will commence in Geneva, Switzerland, today, where ...
The resistance from a number of senior police officers to the appointment of Bimshani Jasin Arachchi as the first woman ...
This week the UN Human Rights Commission will examine the “deteriorating Human Rights situation in Sri Lanka,” but m...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has appointed yet another committee to examine the report of the Presidential Commission of...
Lawyer Hijaz Hisbullah has been remanded until March 3 by the Colombo Magistrate today, taking him out of detention in t...
Visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan urged to “push Sri Lanka to gazette” the step to end the forced cremati...
The Attorney General has ordered the Police Department to produce detained lawyer Hijaz Omar Hizbullah before a Magistra...
If the government and opposition leaderships are united in their resolve to address the grievances of the ethnic and rel...
The Co-Cabinet spokesman Minister Udaya Gammanpila says Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa was only indicating his private...
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Sri Lanka’s Criminal Law is being amended to allow Magistrates to visit Police stations to examine the condition of su...
It has been five days since the Prime Minister told Parliament that burial of Covid victims will be allowed but no chang...
TNA veteran and lawyer M A Sumanthiran says he is under threat and should not have had his Commando guards removed
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has told Parliament that the compulsory cremation of the remains of Covid 19 deceased w...
Sri Lankan fiction writer Shakthika Sathkumara, who was in pre-trial detention for months over a controversial short sto...
Batticaloa Member of Parliament from the Ilankai Tamil Arasu Katchi Rasamanickam Shanakyan, one of the leaders of the ma...
Sri Lanka’s Free Media Movement (FMM) is strongly condemning the military coup in Myanmar calling it an “outrageous ...
Sri Lanka’s ethnic conflict is not a shooting war anymore but long-standing issues remain unresolved
Some of the footage seen in a widely shared video tweeted by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) about Sri Lanka’s all...
The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) Sri Lanka is expressing its grave concern with the state of ethnoreligious rela...
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