Even as attention is riveted on the bloodshed in Syria, another conflict, far more deadly, is belatedly attracting the notice it deserves.
Beginning this week, the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva has returned to an issue that has haunted it since 2009 — the bloody finish to Sri Lanka’s civil war. That conflict ended on […]

DRAFT RESOLUTION on SRI LANKA at the UNHRC 19th Sessions
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Human Rights, and other relevant instruments,
Reaffirming that States must ensure that any measure taken to combat terrorism complies with their obligations under international law, in particular international human […]

Tamara Kunanayakam, Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva  gave an interview to a website last week attempting to explain the motivations of the West and mostly the United States for pushing a
resolution against Sri Lanka
Given below are excerpts of the interview with Ambassador Tamara Kunanayakam.
Question: What is the current situation in the Human […]

Sri Lankan Human Rights Defenders Network have heard with great interest the speech made by Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe at the UN Human Rights Council on February 27. We are concerned about the silences and
misrepresentations that we have found there.
We give below our list of Twelve Questions for Minister Samarasinghe and others in his delegation.
We urge […]

The US is not the enemy of Sri Lanka and come what may in Geneva, the two countries will continue to have good bilateral relations – outgoing US Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives Patricia Butenis told local media
recently.
We publish below excerpts of an interview appearing in Ceylon Today
Q:The Government and protestors are calling […]

Footprints in Sand  is a report of children missing from the North and East of Sri Lanka. It is called the MAM report an acronym  for the three villages from which these children were taken – Mandaitivu-Allapiddy-Mankumban
(M-A-M). The disappearances occurred between 25-08-90 & 23-09-90. The report was published fifteen years after the disappearances in 2005 by […]

Killing Fields follow up film – Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields: War Crimes Unpunished to air on Channel 4, on Wednesday March 14, 10:55pm
Last year Channel 4 broadcast Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields, a critically-acclaimed and RTS Award winning forensic investigation into the events of the last few weeks of the decades-long war between the government of Sri Lanka
and […]

A U.S. judge dismissed  a lawsuit Wednesday February 29) against Sri Lanka’s president over killings allegedly carried out by his forces during the country’s ethnic civil war.
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled that she must dismiss the suit against President Mahinda Rajapaksa because the Obama administration says he is immune from the litigation as a […]

Statement by the Hon Mahinda Samarasinghe M.P.Minister of Plantation Industries and Special Envoy of the President on Human Rights Leader of the Sri Lanka Delegation to the 19th Session of the UNHRC High Level Segment 27th February 2012, Geneva
I am honoured and privileged to be able to once again share with this august body, Sri […]

This week the UN Human Rights Council has an opportunity and a duty to help Sri Lanka advance its own efforts on accountability and reconciliation. Both are essential if a lasting peace is to be achieved. In doing so, the
council will not only be serving Sri Lanka, but those worldwide who believe there are universal […]