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President Mahinda Rajapakse will be attending meetings in Geneva in an attempt to discuss serious allegations of human rights abuses in Sri Lanka including abductions, forced disappearances, torture, ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about an alleged assault of two men, who are relatives each other, by one sub inspector of the Meegahatenna police stati...

Dear friends, We would like to share with you a link to video recording of the oral submission by the Asian Legal Resource Centre and the Law and Society Trust Sri Lanka. To view the online video plea...

On June 1st the International Independent Group of Eminent Persons (IIGEP) submitted its first Interim Report to the President of Sri Lanka. The report contained the observations and concerns of the I...

The following is a statement delivered on behalf of the Asian Legal Resource Centre supported by the Law society and Trust, Sri Lanka at 5th Session of the UN Human Rights Council. June 11th 2007 – 5...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the denial of the right to education to a 15-year-old rape victim in Ahangama, Galle District, Galle Division,...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from International Independent Group of Eminent Persons (IIGEP) Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A ...

While the actions by the government to expel over three hundred Tamils from Colombo came under furious condemnation in the parliament, by political and civil society organisations in the country and a...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned by the alleged torture and fabrication of charges against a man by the Kotadeniyawa police. According to the information from...

The following statement was issued today by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights defenders, Hina Jilani, and the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, su...

The Asian Human Rights Commission condemns the forcible removal of several hundred Tamils from Colombo by the Sri Lankan police and military in an operation carried out on the morning of June 7, 2007....

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received two further alleged torture cases committed by Sri Lankan police. In one case, the 17-year-old victim was illegally arrested by the ...

On the evening of June 1, 2007 two Red Cross volunteers who had attended a training programme of the Red Cross in Colombo and were returning home to Batticaloa were abducted at the Central Railway Sta...

Abductions, killings and robbery have become regular incidents in Sri Lanka. The telltale symptoms of a broken down rule of law and a system that has failed to address it. The Asian Human Rights Commi...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 31, 2007 AL-012-2007 HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Fifth session A Written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre, supported by the Law and Society Trust, Sri Lanka SR...

Both of us who are the authors of this letter are from Cambodia and Pakistan, two countries that have witnessed the bitterest lessons of dictatorship. We were shocked and saddened to see a statement i...

(Hong Kong, May 31, 2007) On May 26, 2007 five persons belonging to the same family were chopped to death in their own home. According to reports the alleged cause of the multiple murders was a land d...

Mr. Suhada K. Gamalath – Secretary  Judicial Service Commission Superior Court Complex Colombo 12 Sri Lanka Fax: + Fax: 94 11 2320785 Dear Mr. Gamalath: SRI LANKA: An Open Letter to the JSC reg...

The killing of five members of a single family at Delgoda over a land dispute, a subsequent mob attack in which three houses in the neighbourhood were burned, followed by the shooting of two alleged s...

Mr. W.N.J. Lokubandara The Honourable Speaker Parliament of Sri Lanka Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte Sri Lanka Fax: +94 11 2777564 To the Honourable Speaker and all Honourable Members of the Parliament of ...