This chapter deals with the development of the Sri Lankan human rights infrastructure and examines the institutions that were, and are, designed to protect human rights. Sri Lanka has established in its post-colonial history a variety of ad hoc mechanisms with the purpose of promoting and ...
Human rights grievances over war crimes remain unsettled, but Sri Lanka has seen some of its steepest economic growth in the years after fighting ceased. Tea fields, cultivated by British colonists, continue to lead the predominant export industry and the large textile manufacturing industry has been...
Twenty years ago Mahinda Rajapaksa was a fiercely dedicated human rights lawyer and, along with Mangala Samaraweera, a pillar of strength to Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike who was heading the Mothers’ Front in southern Sri Lanka. The latter was a frontal organisation to fight for justice for the tho...
Sri Lanka’s international partners, including the United States, EU, Japan, India, and others should press for genuine reforms to ensure this bill meets Sri Lanka’s international human rights obligations, Human Rights Watch said. The EU should make it clear that replacing the present countert...
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Sri Lanka's new government reverses key economic reform for IMF bailout package Courtesy The Telegraph Online (India) The government reversed the Electricity Act, approved in June this year under then-president Ranil Wickremesinghe's government The new National People's Power (NPP) government in ...
Sri Lanka - Ancient, Colonial, Civil War: Sri Lanka has had a continuous record of human settlement for more than two millennia, and its civilization has been shaped largely by that of the Indian subcontinent. The island’s two major ethnic groups, the S
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In her report at the 48th session of the UN Human Rights Council Geneva yesterday she also said her Office’s work to implement the accountability-related aspects of Resolution 46/1 on Sri Lanka have begun. She added that the pending recruitment of a start-up team and development of an in...
Sri Lanka’s rural landscape is dotted with as many as 14,000 such large and small irrigation lakes, known as wewas, built by kings thousands of years ago. A nearly five-hour drive on surprisingly good roads – testament to the rural infrastructure built after the end of the 26-year lon...