Sri Lanka's minority Tamil political parties and civil society groups have urged the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to establish an international independent investigatory mechanism with a strict time frame to ensure accountability from the island nation on the alleged human rights abuses during the nearly three-decades long civil war.

Many parents are worried about a number of issues that may pop up as they prepare to send their kids back to school.

The Colombo High Court has ruled that the manner in which the Bribery Commission had filed a case with the Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court against Minister Johnston

 The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) in a statement yesterday (14) deplored the comprehensive failure of the Sri Lankan authorities to ensure accountability for conflict-

A Tamil Journalist in detention for nearly fifty days should be released immediately, Reporters without Borders (RSF) has demanded. 

Former Speaker Karu Jayasuriya has requested the government to utilize the  Rs.14 billion in three funds affiliated to the Foreign Employment Bureau to repatriate Sri Lankan

What was illegal on the dead of the night of 8th January in the north of Sri Lanka became legal following the dawn of 11th January when two stones for reconstruction were symbolically laid at the place where once a bulldozed monument for war dead stood.

President-elect Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he has nominated Ambassador Samantha Power as the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).