COLOMBO - As the 49th session of the UN Human Rights Council gets underway in Geneva, Switzerland, the British Minister for South Asia, Lord Tariq Ahmad, has met with Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister G. L. Peiris and pressed him on progress…
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COLOMBO – Foreign Minister G.L. Peiris told his South African counterpart, Dr. Naledi Pandor, about the need to adapt South Africa’s inspiring national experience on reconciliation to each country’s unique circumstances, noting that Sri…
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COLOMBO – President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has pledged to co-operate with the United Nations 15 months after warning that he may take the island out of the world body and its agencies if they pursued war crimes allegations against Colombo.…
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COLOMBO – Sri Lanka on Tuesday (14) rejected the proposal for any external initiatives established by Resolution 46/1, claiming domestic processes were vigorously addressing the relevant matters and warning external moves would polarize the…
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COLOMBO - The Core Group on Sri Lanka on Tuesday (14) expressed deep concerns about current human rights developments in the country, in particular increased limitations being put on civic space, and called for the Office of the High…
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By Steven Lee Myers TIANJIN - China offered a high-profile public stage to the Taliban on Wednesday (28), declaring that the group rapidly retaking large parts of Afghanistan would play “an important role in the process of peaceful…
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By Groundviews Sri Lanka has lost a fearless and compassionate human rights defender in Manouri Muttetuwegama, who devoted her life to ease the suffering of those in pain. Born into a political family as the daughter of Colvin R. de Silva,…
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National Sorry Day, or the National Day of Healing, established as an annual event on this day in 1998, remembers and commemorates the mistreatment of the country's Indigenous peoples, as part of an ongoing process of reconciliation between…
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COLOMBO - Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena on Monday (10) conveyed Sri Lanka’s concerns to Canada about Bill 104 on ‘Tamil Genocide Education Week’ passed by the Ontario Legislative Assembly and sought the immediate intervention of the…
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COLOMBO– Sri Lanka’s opposition parties have hit out at the government for its handling of the resolution passed at the 46th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva on Tuesday (23). The main opposition Samagi…
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