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AHRC releases the Human Rights Report for the years of 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008, which each includes a comprehensive report of human rights situations in Sri Lanka for that year.

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Lesson Series 54: How a UN human rights presence can help human rights in Sri Lanka

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A study on the prevention of organized crimes bill.

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Urgent Appeals
SRI LANKA: The case of two missing men has still not been investigated almost one year after their abduction by alleged CID agents - 2009-06-19

SRI LANKA: A local criminal disables a man and police fail to act - 2009-06-10

SRI LANKA: A man and his family are tortured by police - 2009-06-04

UPDATE (Sri Lanka/Saudi Arabia): President Obama urged to take up the case of a young girl facing the death penalty during his visit to Riyadh - 2009-06-02

FORWARDED APPEAL (Sri Lanka): Plight of the Tamils - 2009-05-20

SRI LANKA: Police apathy exposed towards the rape of a 14-year-old girl - 2009-05-13

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): Abducted human rights defender is in imminent danger - 2009-05-11

SRI LANKA: Failure of medical examination in a case of police torture - 2009-05-06

SRI LANKA: Alleged torture and prolonged detention of a couple - 2009-04-29

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Statements
[AHRC Forwarded Article] SRI LANKA: Politicised Courts, Compromised Rights - 2009-07-02

[AHRC Article] SRI LANKA: Criminal gangs and the failure to invest in the administration of justice - 2009-06-30

SRI LANKA: Authorities complicit in widespread torture - 2009-06-26

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Press Releases
[AHRC Forwarded Press Release] SRI LANKA: (Government) Revives draconian law to gag media - 2009-07-02

[AHRC Forwarded Press Release] SRI LANKA: End twenty years of impunity - 2009-06-16

SRI LANKA/SAUDI ARABIA: President Obama asked to intervene in Rizana Nafeek’s case with the Saudi Arabian authorities - 2009-06-02

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Rule of Law in Sri Lanka

A UN monitoring mission for Sri Lanka
Latest Report of Disappearances, Abductions, Killings in South
Posted by ahrc on Monday, February 26 @ 15:28:19 HKT
Civil Monitoring Commission had release the latest report of Extra Judicial Killings, Abductions and Disappearances in South. This list is up dated last February 07th, 2007. To view the complete list, please follow this link.
News items appearing in the Wijaya Newspapers regarding Kalutara torture case
Posted by ahrc on Tuesday, December 05 @ 15:28:19 HKT
News items appearing in the Wijaya Newspapers with reference to the Kalutara torture case; accused Kaluhandi Gervin Premalal Silva and complainant Palitha Thissa Kumara, and correspondence with the editors of The Lankadeepa, The Sunday Times and the Daily Mirror. The full text of the communication can be dowloaded here.
The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka is a part of the human rights violation mechanism
Posted by ahrc on Tuesday, September 19 @ 14:32:14 HKT
Click here to download a copy of the Supreme Court judgement in the case Nallaratnam Singarasa V The Attorney General of Sri Lanka, Supreme Court of Sri Lanka in Special Leave Application 182/1999 dated 15.09.2006 in which the SC denies the application of the ICCPR in Sri Lankan jurisdiction. For background information click here.
Pledges made by the government of Sri Lanka to the UNHRC
Posted by ahrc on Friday, May 19 @ 17:56:06 HKT
Click here to download a copy of the "Pledges made by the government of Sri Lanka to the United Nations Human Rights Council"