Has Mahinda Rajapaksa and the government discredited Sri Lanka? Is Mahinda Rajapaksa responsible for the ‘defeat’ at Geneva when the American resolution against Sri Lanka—it is certainly against Sri Lanka however much the Americans say no—was adopted by the United Nations Human Rights Commission? Could Ranil Wickremesinghe have saved the country if he had been the President? (People will never elect him President!) What is meant by saving the country or bringing (dis)credit to the country? What Ranil Wickremesingh

The Minister of Labour and Labour Relations slammed his own ministry and the procedures adopted by its officials with regards to labour inspection as less effective and inefficient in supporting employee and employer needs in the country.

Addressing the launch of the ‘Labour Inspection System Application’ earlier this month, Labour Minister Gamini Lokuge said the system was expected to deliver an affective and efficient service to stakeholders while smoothening out operations within his ministry.

UPFA MP Dr. Sudarshini Fernandopulle, yesterday said that the terrorist attack on the Boston marathon was the first attack on a sporting event in the world since the assassination of her husband, Minister Jeyaraj Fernandopulle, as he was about to flag off a marathon at Weliweriya, Gampaha on the morning of April 6, 2008.

The Weliweriya blast claimed the lives of 12 persons, including Minister Fernandopulle, who held the highways and road development portfolios at the time of his demise and athlete K. A. Karunarathne, the forme

Hunger strikes and suicide attempts by asylum seekers on Nauru will not get them ''anywhere'', Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Monday.

Her hard line comes after reports by Fairfax Media that asylum seekers were attempting to hang themselves and self-harming within one month of arrival at Nauru.

''The first point to make is it doesn't get you anywhere, doesn't get you a changed outcome,'' she said. ''Unfortunately people do sometimes take that step, but I do want to

Sri Lanka's human rights situation last year remained of serious concern, with a number of negative developments, including with regard to freedom of expression and media and judicial independence, Britain said in a report released today.

UK Foreign Secretary William Hague today launched the "Human Rights and Democracy report for 2012" prepared by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office.

The report, which documents UK's action to raise standards and stamp out abuses occurring globally, said serious h

The United States has reminded the Sri Lankan government that support for media freedom was one of the many recommendations of the LLRC report and a component of the recent UNHCR resolution in Geneva.

Acting State Department Deputy Spokesperson Patrick Ventrell said the US condemns the reported attack against the Uthayan newspaper recently.

Responding to a question on Sri Lanka at the daily US State Department press briefing yesterday (Monday) Ventrell said the incident is the latest in a series of attacks against U

Reporters Without Borders and its partner organization, Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (JDS), firmly condemn a pre-dawn armed attack on the Tamil-language daily Uthayan’s headquarters in the northern city of Jaffna on 13 April, just 10 days after a similar attack on Uthayan’s distribution office in the town of Kilinochchi.

In the 13 April attack, three gunmen threatened Uthayan security guards and staff members and forced their way into the printing department, where they opened fire on equipment and then s

A trade union affiliated to Sri Lanka's education sector says the government is looking at reducing the number of schools in the country.

The Ceylon Teachers' Union (CTU) has said that the government under the project to develop 1,000 schools is looking at reducing the number of schools in the country from 9,662 to 6,000.

CTU General Secretary Joseph Stalin has told the media that the Education Ministry was focused only on developing schools selected under the programme.

Parliamentarian of Sri Lanka's Tamil National Alliance (TNA) and publisher of the Jaffna based Uthayan newspaper, E. Saravanapavan criticized the government media spokesperson over the remarks made following the attack on the newspaper office in Jaffna on April 13th.

Saravanapavan speaking to the media said the Government Spokesperson, Minister Keheliya Rambukwella should not give false information to the media.

Public Health Inspectors in Sri Lanka's North Central Province plan to launch a continuous strike from Wednesday to protest the actions of the provincial health officials.

Deputy Secretary of the Public Health Inspectors Union of Sri Lanka (PHIUSL), C.S. Muthukuda has told local media that the strike will be launched to protest the allegations of embezzlement leveled against the General Secretary of the Association, A. M. Senarath Bandara.