UNHRC 2025 Resolution – a-hrc-60-21-auv

Sri Lanka’s position should stand firm: The 2025 UNHRC report systematically alleges state misconduct while bypassing its original mandate, due process, impartiality, and sovereignty. Despite pages and pages of reports or statements, condemnations or allegations, …

Since the defeat of the LTTE in May 2009, Sri Lanka has faced continuous demands mainly from international actors, NGOs, and local separatist lobbies for the return of lands in the North and East said to be “occupied” by the …

Your Excellencies,

I write to you as a concerned voice from Sri Lanka — the first nation to be made the testing ground of a dangerous precedent by the UNHRC, one that threatens every country in the Non-Aligned Movement.

The …

UNHRC resolutions are technically non-binding. Yet for Sri Lanka, ending terrorism has been met with relentless scrutiny—a witch hunt targeting select war heroes and commanding officers. Every Resolution since 2009 has been a ticking time bomb, made worse by the …

Sri Lanka has suspended construction of two wind power plants in Mannar for one month to review environmental and community concerns, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake announced.

The decision halts work on a 20-megawatt facility already underway and a proposed 50-megawatt …

UNHRC 2025 Resolution – a-hrc-60-21-auv

Sri Lanka’s position should stand firm: The 2025 UNHRC report systematically alleges state misconduct while bypassing its original mandate, due process, impartiality, and sovereignty. Despite pages and pages of reports or statements, condemnations or allegations, …

Gary Anandasangaree left Sri Lanka in 1980 with his mother after his parents separated. His father V Anandasangaree was a signatory of the Vaddukoddai Resolution. Gary has met his father only a couple of times since leaving Sri Lanka. Father …

In March 2021, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted Resolution 46/1, creating an unprecedented external accountability mechanism for Sri Lanka. This was a significant step beyond from the UNHRC’s original mandate, as outlined in General Assembly Resolution 60/251 …

Sri Lanka is the only UN member state targeted for successive UNHRC resolutions after successfully ending a 30-year terrorist conflict. Instead of recognition for defeating terrorism-a feat no other nation has achieved, Sri Lanka’s National Army has faced repeated allegations …

We are concerned about the consistent manner that successive UN High Commissioners for Human Rights have been involved or caved into pressure by a handful of bloc nations using the UNHRC to exert political pressure over nations. Not only have …