Each time a journalist in Sri Lanka is threatened, disappeared or killed and no one is held to account, the space for truth shrinks and the foundations of democracy weaken. On 2 November,
Edit: October 22, 2025 On Friday 26 September, the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) welcomed Sri Lanka’s ratification of key human rights treaties but expressed deep concern about continuing impunity, lack
Last year, SLC’s blog “A New Era?” asked whether President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and his party’s electoral victory could break Sri Lanka’s historical pattern of impunity over enforced disappearances. As the world observes another UN International Day
Black July 1983 remains one of the darkest chapters in Sri Lanka’s post‐independence history. Over the course of just seven days - from 24th to 30th July 1983 - a state-enabled pogrom unleashed
Subject: UN High Commissioner for Human Right’s upcoming visit to Sri Lanka June 16, 2025 We are writing this public letter in connection with your forthcoming visit to Sri Lanka, from June 23
Sixteen years after the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war, Tamil survivors and families of the disappeared are still fighting for one of the fundamental human rights: the right to mourn. Every May
On 21 April 2019, coordinated suicide bombings targeted churches and luxury hotels across Sri Lanka, killing at least 260 people and injuring over 500. The attacks, carried out by the National Thowheeth Jama’ath
By M.C.M. Iqbal For more than two decades, the Batalanda Commission report has languished in the archives of our nation's history, ignored and forgotten by those who should have cared most [MI1] .
The Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace and Justice (SLC) welcomes the UK Government’s announcement of targeted sanctions against senior Sri Lankan military officials involved in serious human rights violations during the final stages of the
As the world comes together to mark International Women’s Day on 8 March, we shine a light on the remarkable women of Sri Lanka, whose resilience and courage in the face of conflict and inequality continue to inspire us all. This year’s theme, Accelerate Action, highlights the
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