The report on Sri Lanka by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay will be submitted to the UN Human Rights Council on March 26, the provisional agenda for the session states.

According to the agenda, the report on Sri Lanka will be open for discussion after it is presented and the Sri Lankan Government is expected to express its views on the report at that time.

The 25th session of the UN Human Rights Council will commence on March 3 and go on till March 28 and any resolution presented will be adopted

A Tamil National Alliance (TNA) will go to Geneva to push for an international independent investigation into alleged war crimes abuses committed during the final stages of the war in Sri Lanka.

TNA MP Suresh Premachandran said that the party will also brief foreign diplomats on the situation in Sri Lanka ahead of the UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva in March.

Premachandran said that at a recent TNA meeting held in Vavuniya the TNA members had agreed on the need to push for an international investigation in

The Gulf countries should recognize the crucial role foreign workers play in their economies and take measures to ensure that their rights are fully respected. South Asian governments should join forces to press for reforms to end the terrible abuses against migrant workers that have gone on for far too long.
 The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) should leverage their countries’ collective bargaining power to seek greater protection for their nationals working in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)

Sri Lankan police has arrested a freelance Indian journalist, Prabhakaran, for clicking pictures of sensitive installations on a tourist visa. He is being questioned in Colombo.
 
The Indian envoy has been informed of the developments. Sri Lankan police revealed that an Indian national was arrested on charges of filming a military installation in Kilinochchi, stronghold of former Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)

When the American Centre in Colombo held a memorial event honouring the late South African President Nelson Mandela, the first few questions at the question and answer session had nothing to do with the great freedom fighter.

The questions raised at the meeting Dec. Sri Lanka set up its own national healing process. During the Commonwealth Heads of State summit (CHOGM) in Colombo in November, President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government had approached the African state to explore t

Many seem to think that an inquiry of the type of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) is appropriate to be applied to the post war reconciliation process in Sri Lanka. This is based on a mistaken belief that TRC provides a magic formula which could be advantageously applied to the Sri Lankan situation or any other situations arising from conflict.

Who are the advocates of this? Doesn’t  one see the Western hand in it now picked up especially by pro- Eelam lobbies overseas? During and before C

After President Mahinda Rajapaksa became the Chairman of the Commonwealth, at the conclusion of the CHOGM in November, the very first petition submitted to it for consideration was one against the Chief Justice (CJ) Mohan Peries as revealed in the media recently.
 
The petition was in respect of purported legal opinion sought by President Rajapaksa from the CJ about the possibility of holding the Presidential Election this year as per the relevant provisions in the Constitution. As prescribed by the Constitution, a Preside

Sri Lankan TaThe Committee to Protect Journalists today called for the immediate release of an Indian journalist and filmmaker who was arrested in Sri Lanka on Wednesday while allegedly filming and photographing a military base.

Tamil Prabhakaran was arrested by Sri Lankan security forces in the northern Kilinochchi district and is undergoing an investigation by the island nation's Terrorist Investigation Department on charges of violating visa regulations and taking pictures of a military installation, The New Indian Expr

Rathupaswala, Weliweriya water issue is yet to be resolved, Venerable Theripaha Siridhamma Thera of the Rathupaswala Galoluwa Sri Sambuddha Jayanthi Vihara told The Sunday Leader.

He said that while the factory which was believed to have been the source of the water contamination issue is being relocated and the authorities have laid pipelines, the people in the area are unable to pay for the water.

According to the thera, the people in the area did not ask for any compensation for the damage done by the factory but

In the early morning of December 27, the authorities addressed a large crowd of people protesting outside Badureliya District Hospital. They had come to support a Member of Parliament who was staging a hunger strike demanding the reopening of the hospital. The authorities announced to the crowd that the hospital would be reopened the next morning.