Sri Lanka is urging the U.S. to avoid letting human rights concerns dominate the relationship between the countries five years after the end of a civil war that killed as many as 40,000 civilians.

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By Malinda Senevirathne

The Government has taken some tentative steps to keep NGOs in check.  Although the big-names in the NGO fraternity have howled in protest, a careful reading of the directive issued by the NGO Secretariat clearly indicates …

India’s decision to stick to the previous UPA regime’s stand not to support the inquiry by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) into Sri Lanka’s ‘war crimes’ in the last days of the civil war in 2009 is shocking, …

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American military and corporate power have triumphed over all rivals—so why does the United States still struggle to impose its will on the world?

For America’s national security state, this is the age of impunity. Nothing it does—torture, …

According to a news item appeared in Daily Mirror dated 9th July 2014, under the subject ‘NGO’s to defy Defence Ministry ban‘ J.C. Weliamuna of the Lawyers Collective said the government is misguided in its thinking that NGOs …

The TNA will submit affidavits to the Supreme Court affirming that they stand for a unitary Sri Lanka.

Counsel, K. Kanag Ishwaran P.C. and M. A. Sumanthiran, who appeared for TNA office bearers made respondents in several fundamental rights violation …

Reconciliation in Sri Lanka discussed

On his third visit to India this year and his first under the Narendra Modi government, Sri Lankan foreign minister G.L. Peiris, discussed with External Affairs minister Sushma Swaraj, the measures Sri Lanka was taking …

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The government has drawn heavy flak for a host of restrictions imposed on the NGO sector. The UNP has condemned them as part of a sinister campaign to stifle democracy. The US has also frowned on …