Geneva (Switzerland) AFP: The UN human rights agency on Friday criticised an ongoing anti-narcotics crackdown in Sri Lanka that has resulted in the arrest of over...
GENEVA (6 September 2023)– Sri Lanka suffers from a continuing accountability deficit – be it for war crime atrocities, more recent human rights violations, corruption, or...
Sri Lanka’s 6th Periodic Review under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) will be held on 8 and 9 March 2023 in Geneva,...
Decades on, the UN endures but its dilemmas as regards the major powers continue unresolved. The latest development in international politics that helped highlight this problem...
By Jehan Perera Sri Lanka faced its worst ever defeat at the UN Human Rights Council last week when it voted on Resolution No 51/1 titled...
The UK-headquartered Global Tamil Forum (GTF) said that Sri Lanka’s response to the latest Geneva resolution presented by Foreign Minister Ali Sabry – who insisted on...
By Jehan Perera The government is facing the strongest resolution yet by the UN Human Rights Council during its 51st session in Geneva. This will be...
Calls for “a change of approach” British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has told President Ranil Wickremesinghe that the upcoming UNHRC meeting in Geneva will be “a...