Resolution A/HRC/46/L.Rev.1 dated 16 March 2021 has been adopted by the UN Human Rights Council based on procedures and practices adopted by Committees of the General Assembly. Of the 47 members of the Council, 22 Member States cast an affirmative …

In a lofty speech delivered via video to the 75th General Assembly of UN (September 2020) – the first of its kind initiated in the wake of the pandemic — Prime Minister Narendra Modi took great pains to explain a …

The State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) in Switzerland states that there will be no changes to the Swiss asylum policy towards Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka, stating that there is “currently no reason to assume a general risk of danger …

BRITISH policy, or that system which the British Government has for ages systematically pursued, and by which it has acquired its vast colonial empire, is hut very imperfectly understood by the mass of the American people. Deriving our knowledge of …

It has become apparent that the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva did not take into consideration documents and reports which were written by Lieutenant Colonel Anton Gash who was the then military attaché on the ground in …

ජගත් මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලයේදී ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට එරෙහිව ඉදිරිපත් වූ යෝජනාව පරාජය කිරීමට අසමත් වීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් විදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්‍යංශයේ ලේකම්, හිටපු නාවික හමුදාපති ජයනාත් කොළඹගේ මහතා වගකිව යුතු බව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී ඩිලාන් පෙරේරා මහතා පවසනවා.

ඔහු පසුගිය කාලයේදී සිදුකළ ඇතැම් ප්‍රකාශ …

The result of the passing of a resolution concerning Sri Lanka in Geneva at the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) has left many of our citizens asking questions as to how it will impact the country and its future.…

On 18 March the British Parliament will be having a full-scale discussion on the Report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights with a view to holding the Government of Sri Lanka, its machinery, and senior officials accountable for …

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(Courtesy of Socialist Web)

On Tuesday, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) passed a new resolution on Sri Lanka and called on the Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to monitor human rights violations in …