Exploitation of Sri lankan migrants…
The COVID 19 epidemic poses a number of challenges to the Sri Lankan migrant community. The heroes of this country who earned foreign exchange for the country are now returning to their homeland in the…
Category: Features
Burial of COVID affected dead bodies; Tail wagging the Dog?
A rational solution will be possible if this matter is taken out of the hands of politicians whose actions will not be based on science or religion. by Raj Gonsalkorale True Islam is derived…
Sri Lanka’s mandatory cremation policy is playing politics with the dead…
''There is no scientific justification for the government to adopt this policy and deny the dead the dignity they deserve in death. '' The following statement issued by the Global Tamil Forum (GTF) While…
Sri Lanka: Covid-19 Deaths are to burn or to bury -The deadly question
Sri Lanka Guardian December 20, 2020 In Sri Lanka, it gets ridiculous. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has apparently asked the Maldivian government if Maldives could help by providing burial funerals for Sri Lankan Muslims who…
Rajapaksas used politics to concentrate power around themselves every day-Upul Nishantha
Leader of the Opposition in the Matara Municipal Council It has been a year since the President became President. He will come to power with a large number of votes, that is, with a large…
Cancel the appointment of OMP chairman immediately – Sandya Ekneligoda
Ms. Sandhya Ekneligoda, a human rights activist, has request from the President to immediately rescind the appointment of a person who is in their cases against missing persons to the post of Chairperson of the…
Prisoners haven’t any right to live with self-respect- Visakesa Chandrasekaram
Dr. Visakesha Chandrasekara says that, lives of inmates may be life threatening at that time when pandemic such as the Corona is spreading, but this government has in a very reckless manner deprived them of…
SLCAT press release on Human Rights day…
The Sri Lanka Collective Against Torture states that it is the responsibility of a responsible democratic government to reveal to the country after an independent post mortem how the Mahara detainees died and to conduct…
Human Rights on the digital space…
Human rights are the rights of all human beings, regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religion or any other factor. In the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it has been propagated under thirty…
International Human Rights Day…
In 1948, every fundamental and inherent human right of all citizens with no exception to their nationality, sex and gender was set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which was adopted by the…