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"All persons are equal before the law and are entitled to the equal protection of the law."
"Though a female ward exists, it should be relocated to some other region. This would be good for everybody."
Bureau of Rehabilitation Bill strongly criticized by rights groups
The announcement came in the wake of the latest UNHRC resolution on Sri Lanka that was passed with 20 votes.
Sri Lanka stands with people of Palestine and will continue to support them in quest to realize Statehood
Yukthiya operation has led to arrest nearly 39,000 people in 1 month - police
Sri Lanka needs to look at issues in a rational manner if it is to build a multi-ethnic and multi-religious nation and e...
Sri Lanka’s continuing anti-Muslim policies are shameful as we as heirs to a civilization that goes back millennia are...
Sri Lanka’s Roman Catholic Church does not oppose the cremation of the remains of the dead of any of its faithful who ...
Dr Sudarshini Fernandopulle has been unanimously elected as the Chairperson of the tiny Women Parliamentarians Caucus an...
Sri Lanka’s Police Spokesman is saying that a person who refuses a PCR test can be charged with maliciously spreading ...
The Anglican Church in Sri Lanka is drawing the attention of the authorities to the plight of two individuals who are in...
Sri Lanka’s Muslims are not abandoning the remains of their relatives who died of Covid 19 but are not cooperating wit...
Sri Lankan authorities are being faulted by the country’s Human Rights Council for the deaths of eleven inmates at the...
The faith that the victims of forced cremation of COVID-19 or COVID-19 suspected dead had in the highest court in Sri La...
Human Rights activists are demanding a full and impartial investigation into the death of eleven prisoners at the Mahara...
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Sri Lanka has a culture of tolerating violence against women with many incidents growing unreported, an activist has sai...
At least four people have reportedly died after Prison officials opened fire after inmates at the Mahara Prison became r...
The former Director of the Criminal Investigation Department SSP Shani Abeysekara is being transferred to the Infectious...
The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) is asking the government to amend the regulations governing the disposa...
The United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) has written to the Sri Lankan government seeking details about a compl...
Opposition Samagi Jana Balavegaya Member of Parliament Imthiaz Bakeer Markar is accusing the government of targeting med...
Prisoners in many jails in Sri Lanka are uneasy because of the Covid 19 spread in the institutions and the incident this...
A fatal trend of non-transparent decision making was set early on in the Covid crisis. At the root of the problem was th...
The government is unlikely to accede to a request made by Colombo Mayor Rosy Senanayake to shut down the country’s com...
The government will go ahead with a plan to introduce laws to resolve employee disputes in the State Sector which will b...
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