China, Russia, Cuba including Sri Lanka's very close vital friendly countries have lost membership, by the United Nation Council's Human Rights Assembly's rotation system for membership, for  the diplomatic debate of the Geneva sessions which is scheduled to be held in the month of March would be a critical ordeal for Sri Lanka is according to diplomatic circles.
 
Further Qatar, Kuwait countries which were supportive countries of America rejected the motion against Sri Lanka last time, but this year, ther

A team of reputed entrepreneurs from United States will arrive in Sri Lanka to explore the possibility of investing in Sri Lanka Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to the US and Mexico Jaliya C. Wickramasuriya told Daily News that these investors are involved in oil exploration and related services, power generation, tourism, and other areas.

The embassy arranged a number of business delegation visits from USA to Sri Lanka in association with the office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR). He said that these inves

The United States is to submit a new resolution on Sri Lanka at the February-March UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) meeting in Geneva.

According to the Jaffna based Uthayan newspaper a visiting US delegation had informed the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) that a US backed resolution on Sri Lanka at the UNHRC is a certainty.

The US State Department deputies, who had visited Jaffna yesterday and met the army as well as the Jaffna bishop and others in the area, had on Saturday held talks with the TNA.

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The Alliance of Media Organizations will launch a protest campaign tomorrow (29), at the Lipton Circus, to highlight the suppression of the media and continuing attacks on the judiciary.

Spokesperson for the alliance Sunil Jayasekera told The Island that the protest, scheduled to take place at 2.00 p.m. would be followed by a public meeting at the public library.

He said that it was part of the ongoing campaign to target the authoritarian Rajapaksa regime, "now making a despicable attempt to silence the democra

There has been an increase in the number of rape cases involving school teachers, the Education Ministry said.
Deputy Education Minister Vijitha Wijayamuni Zoysa said that teachers involved in such incidents will be suspended from service.
He said that the Education Ministry will join with the Women’s Affairs Ministry and National Child Protection Authority (NCPA) to formulate laws to deal with child rape.
“If there is a complaint against a teacher, be it true or false, the teacher should first be suspended and t

The special three-member committee appointed to access the damage caused by the fire that broke out at the Colombo District Secretariat (DS) (Colombo Kachcheri) last November is due to submit its report next week.

Public Administration and Homes Affairs Ministry Secretary P.B.Abeykoon said the three members, all attached to the Ministry are presently inquiring into the raging fire that destroyed the important divisions in the DS office. Mr. Abeykoon said an additional secretary to the Ministry, a senior investigation officer a

Sri Lanka briefed India about the progress it has achieved in the areas of post-war reconciliation and the implementation of the recommendations of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission(LLRC) report during the eighth meeting of the India-Sri Lanka Joint Commission, which was held in Delihi last week, External Affairs Ministry Secretary Karunathilaka Amunugama yesterday said returning to Colombo after the meeting.

He said Sri Lanka-India Joint Commission will be the apex body to discuss or review matters between the

The JVP affiliated Women for Rights (WfR) organisation yesterday charged that the government’s false propaganda had prevented their protests, during the past few years, demanding the freeing of Rizana Nafeek.

Co -Chairwoman of the WfR, Saroja Savithri Paulraj told The Island that when women’s rights organisations and Opposition political parties protested against the decision to execute Rizana by the Saudi government in 2007, the Sri Lankan government had repeatedly insisted it would initiate a dialogue and she wou

The media must act in a more responsible manner when reporting incidents of child abuse, National Child Protection Authority (NCPA) Chairperson Anoma Dissanayake said.

“All sections of the media, especially the electronic media, are duty bound to act responsibly when revealing the identity of abused children, since such revelations can have a negative impact on abused children,” Dissanayake said

The recent impeachment of Sri Lanka’s Chief Justice, Shirani Bandaranayake, has re-focused international attention on the country. Catherine Ashton, head of the EU’s External Action Service, has expressed “considerable concern”. However, the problem with Sri Lanka runs deeper than any single case. Despite the Sri Lankan Government’s claims of progress on human rights since the conflict with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), also known as the ‘Tamil Tigers’, ended in 2009, the reality i