Across Europe (the Colored Revolutions), the Arab world (Arab Spring), and parts of Asia (the “Asian Spring”), movements that appeared as spontaneous youth uprisings often bore the fingerprints of external intervention and local opportunism. Genuine grievances existed, but they were …

Colombo, Sept. 9 (Daily Mirror) – Russia, in response to the OHCHR report on Sri Lanka, said that it sees no reason to raise concerns about the human rights situation in Sri Lanka, whose authorities demonstrate their readiness to build …

The recent statement by Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister at the UN Human Rights Council outlined the government’s commitment to domestic reforms in human rights, justice, and reconciliation. While many of these initiatives — anti-corruption measures, online safety, memorialization of victims, …

සඳුදා (08) ජිනීවා නුවර දී එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ සංවිධානයේ 60 වැනි මානව හිමිකම් සැසිය ඇරඹෙන්නේය. එහිදී රටේ ජාතික අනන්‍යතාවයට බරපතල ගැටලු උපදවන තත්ත්වයක් නිර්මාණය වීමට නියමිතව තිබේ. ඒ  එංගලන්තයේ සහ කැනඩාවේ මූලිකත්වයෙන් ශ්‍රී ලංකාව සම්බන්ධව ගෙන ඒමට නියමිත යෝජනාවකිනි. එම යෝජනාවේ …

The Nationalist notes with concern that some individuals aligned with the Free Palestine movement in Sri Lanka have recently been seen positioning themselves around controversial and nationally sensitive sites. These are disputed spaces connected to the Tri-Forces, the war victory, …

The Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) has reiterated its commitment to advancing transformative reforms through domestic processes while
rejecting calls for international interventions outlined in the latest one sided report issued by the Office of the United Nations Human Rights …

Sections of the international media have been obsessively focused on the seemingly unusual bonhomie in the interactions among Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the recent Shanghai Cooperation Summit (SCO) in …

Sri Lanka’s non-participation in the recently concluded Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit held in China could be a mistake as it will damage its image as a nation with a non-aligned foreign policy in addition to denial of economic benefits, …

Katchatheevu Island is located in the Palk Bay, one and half nautical miles from the India-Sri Lanka International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL), on the Sri Lankan side of IMBL. This boundary line was ratified in 1976 in a tri-lateral Maritime …