As the world celebrates International Human Rights Day today, the Human Rights Commission in Sri Lanka (HRCSL) reaffirmed its commitment to protect and promote Human Rights in Sri Lanka.

“It is an obligation of every government to guarantee rights of all citizens,” HRCSL said in a statement today.

The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 10 December as the Human Rights Day in 1950, to bring to the attention of the peoples of the world the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the first global enunci

A tense situation has been reported during a protest march in Trincomalee town.The protest march was staged by the relatives and family members of missing persons in line with UN Human Rights Day.

When a group had obstructed the protesters, a clash has erupted. One person has been injured during the clash.

The Sri Lankan government is considering to amend the Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission Act of 1996 in order to suit the current trends and to further secure the human rights of the people.

Commissioner of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL), Dr. Prathiba Mahanamahewa has told the media that the Commission has already presented five amendments to the existing legislation to the Justice Minister and the President.

The Commission intends to further strengthen the human rights of the people through these am

A youth movement in Sri Lanka called the Voice for Youth has organized a protest march in Colombo tomorrow (11) to win 11 demands to address issues faced by the youth in the country.

The organization has said that the youth in the country are faced with many unresolved issues and the government has made many promises to the youth that are yet to be fulfilled.

Prior to the presentation of the 2014 Budget by the government, several youth organizations submitted proposals that would address issued faced by the youth in

JVP Dehiwela - Mt. Lavinia Municipal Council member Samanmalee Gunasinghe addressing the media yesterday.

A JVP-led women’s organisation yesterday accused the government of neglecting children and women in the 2014 budget, as funds for their welfare had been curtailed.

Vice President of Women for Rights Samanmalee Gunasinghe said that it was ludicrous to increase the recurrent expenditure for the Child Development and Women’s Affairs Ministry while cutting down the capital expenditure.

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All migrant workers leaving the country from January 2014 should register themselves at Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau only instead of the longstanding practice of registering at the Airport prior to departure, the SLFEB said today

The registration with the Bureau would be compulsory to all migrant workers from January 2014 onwards, Deputy General Manager of the Bureau Mangala Randeniya said.

The Parliamentary Accounts Committee (PAC) has failed to resume inquiries into the controversial investments of workers’ savings in the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) for the last 11 months, raising serious questions about financial irregularities, United National Party (UNP) National List MP Dr. Harsha de Silva said yesterday.

Dr. de Silva told Daily Mirror that the PAC abruptly ended inquiries into such investments of EPF savings in the Colombo   Stock Exchange on February 6, and since then nothing had moved

The death sentence was handed down to a woman and a man that she has been having an extra marital affair with, over the murder of her husband.

The sentence was handed down by Kegalle High Court Judge, Menaka Wijesundara. The suspects were proven guilty over the murder carried out on April  16, 1999 and dumping the body in a toilet pit.

The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) which concluded its second hearing on Sri Lanka in Bremen, Germany today, found the Government guilty of committing grave human rights abuses and also found that India, Britain and the US were complicit in those crimes.

An eminent panel of jurors were assembled by the PPT to hear charges made against Sri Lanka by the International Human Rights Association (IMRV) in Bremen and the Irish Forum for Peace in Sri Lanka (IFPSL).

The charges were that the British, US and Indian s

The Higher Education Ministry states that there are no rules or regulations prohibiting female Muslim students from covering their faces, despite the Moratuwa University’s recent ban on the Niqab.
 
“Legally, there is nothing against it, so I cannot say what the Moratuwa University authority’s reasons for banning it. There is definitely nothing against Muslim students wearing the face-cover as you know- even school students are allowed to wear it; and they’re allowed to do so even when they come to