Exactly one month ago, i.e. on the 16th of June 2016, the High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein offering a global update at the 32nd session of the Human Rights Council made a dire observation.  He said …

By Malinda Seneviratne

Had he lived, this man would be approaching his fiftieth birthday.  Ordained at an early age, he took the name “Mahiyangane Dhammajothi Thero”.  He was not yet 21 when he survived a brutal terrorist attack.  He was …

BY N. S. VENKATARAMAN 

Presenting an oral update on Sri Lanka at the 32nd session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), nine months after a consensus resolution was adopted on reconciliation and accountability, the United Nations High Commissioner for …

by Shamindra Ferdinando

The National Joint Committee (NJC) yesterday alleged that the Missing Persons (OMP) Bill would prevent revealing the identities of those who had been categorised as missing but found alive, and investigating them. Therefore, a major amendment to …

The High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Al Hussein, has submitted his report to the UNHRC in Geneva on the 29th June 2016. Jehan Perera, in his article in The Island of 5th June , has endorsed the report fully …

Global Sri Lankans Forum, GSLF raised their concern over the committee appointed by the government to re-settle the displaced Sinhala and Muslim people due to LTTE Tamil terrorism in Northern and Eastern two provinces. GSLF challenges the composition of the …

Pro-LTTE Tamil politicians and Tamil extremists cut an old Boo tree and damaged a Buddhist worship place in the Nilaweliya road situated 7 km north of Trincomalee town. Tamil politicians and Tamil extremist thugs has forcefully placed some statues which …

(Courtesy of The Island)

By Shamindra Ferdinando

Former External Affairs Minister Prof. G. L. Peiris and Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa on Saturday (July 9) urged professionals and the business community to make themselves aware of the post-January, 2015 presidential …

Fishermen in the Northern Province hold a protest today in front of the Northern Provincial Council (NPC) against the Yahapalanaya government’s plans to allow Indian fishermen to fishing in Northern Sri Lanka sea and demanding a permanent solution to poaching …

(Courtesy of The Ceylon Today)

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair made an extraordinary confession after 12 years of refusing to apologize for his conduct which has now led to ‘hell’ in Iraq because of the decision made by him …