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 …

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 …

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 has rarely been treated as a sovereign nation in international geopolitics. Sri Lanka had very few leaders able to read geopolitical shifts well enough to spin it to Sri Lanka’s advantage. Sri Lanka has been positioned as a …

For over sixteen years, the international media has largely abandoned its role as a global watchdog. Instead of questioning bias or demanding accountability from the UNHRC, it has allowed one-sided narratives to dominate — and in many cases, has played …

Let us look at the “what if” scenario based on pattern of LTTE terror – where they killed, who they targeted, Tamil children kidnapped, impact on tourism & investment, people’s peace of mind & extrapolate this to 2025. These scenarios …

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) was established in 2006 (GA Resolution 60/251) with noble intentions: to promote universality, impartiality, and cooperation protecting human rights. Yet in practice within less than 2 decades, the Council has become a political …

The OHCHR Report A/HRC/60/21 is illegitimate, selective, and legally void. For 30 years of LTTE terror — assassinations, suicide bombings, ethnic cleansing — the UNHRC and its High Commissioners remained silent. Only when terrorism was militarily defeated in May 2009 …

Although UNHRC resolutions are non-binding, since 2009 the Council has effectively acted as a mouthpiece formalizing overseas LTTE lobbyist demands into intrusive resolutions. A Council that failed to act against LTTE over 30 years of terror has, since 2009, issued …