The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child would review children’s rights in Sri Lanka on January 15 and 16 in Geneva, the Office of the UN Human Rights High Commissioner said today. The committee would also review Guatemala, Panama, Seychelles, Spain, Solomon Islands, Palau and Marshall …
Sri Lankan Military has been trying hard to fill UN peace keeping positions, currently there are 15 ongoing peacekeeping operations conducted by the United Nations across the globe. The majority of them, nine to be precise is conducted in various parts…
Manjari Dissanayake is the daughter of Former Sri Lanka Navy Spokesperson Commodore D.K.P Dassanayake. Thinking the UN to be righteous, unbiased, transparent she arrived to hand over a complaint on behalf of her father and others to the UN officials wh…
ECONOMYNEXT – Poverty appears to be a key factor in people being arrested in Sri Lanka, a United Nations human rights team has said, urging the government to find alternatives to detention, instead of criminalising poverty. Those who could afford quali…
Pablo de Greiff, speaking at the UNGA’s 72nd sessionin New York in October 2017, having visited Sri Lanka earlier that monthsaid that “…The impetus to develop new institutional mechanisms and competences for prevention came from the independent Internal Review Panel on United Nations Action …
The UN expert said Sri Lanka was slow to deliver on its promise of justice for atrocities during its decades-long civil war. He warned the country faced …
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today congratulated the Sri Lankan Government for setting up an Office of Missing Persons (OMP), …
Prime Minister Narendra Modi would only attend the UN ‘Vesak Day’ celebrations and no bilateral agreements will be signed during his visit to Sri …
Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena on Saturday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting the country only to take part in the UN ‘Vesak …
Sri Lanka has sought two more years from the UN to probe the alleged war crimes committed during the conflict with the LTTE despite international …