Sri Lanka is engaged in an all-out effort to stave off a resolution against it at the ongoing session of the United Nations Human Rights Council at Geneva. The United States, the prime backer of the resolution, has circulated a

draft among the Council’s 47 members calling on Colombo to do nothing more than implement the […]

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 […]

Sri Lankan model
In the aftermath of the last phase of the war that ended in the military defeat of the LTTE, government leaders considered the “Sri Lankan Model” of overcoming terrorism to be one that the world could emulate. An international
conference was held in Colombo that was attended by military strategists from around the world. […]

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 […]

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 […]

Nearly three years since the end of the war, there’s a growing need for an accounting of – and for – those killed and missing in the final months of fighting in northern Sri Lanka in 2009. Members of the UN Human Rights
Council, opening its 19th session in Geneva today, should be ready to press […]

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 […]

Britain and the US are preparing for a bitter showdown with Sri Lanka as they attempt to pass an international resolution rebuking Colombo over alleged war crimes said to have been committed
during military operations against ethnic rebels.
A resolution calling upon Sri Lanka to investigate fully who was responsible for the deaths of thousands of Tamil […]

A prophet spoke at the UNESCO in Paris this week, though he joked that having lived for 90 years, he had written thirty pages and found he had been turned into ‘a rock star’.
Stephane Hessel, born in Germany in the year of the Russian revolution, is 95 years old. Anti-Nazi Resistance fighter, concentration camp survivor, […]