One killed after jeep driven by teen rams into multiple vehicles

Chandrika to speak at UNGA Special Session in New York

Former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, the Chairperson of the Office for National Unity and Reconciliation (ONUR), will represent the Government of Sri Lanka at a Special Session of the United `Nations General Assembly to be held on 10th.& 11th of May 2016 at the UN Headquarters in New York. Kumaratunga will speak on the reconciliation work being carried out by the Government of Sri Lanka in her speech titled “Leading by Example: Innovative Partnerships and Responses”. The High-L

06 May, 2016

Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances to discuss Sri Lanka

The United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances?is to discuss Sri Lanka at its?109th session in Geneva. The Working Group will hold its 109th session from 9 to 18 May to examine almost 800 cases from 40 different countries. The Group?s five independent human rights experts will also meet relatives of those who have disappeared, State authorities from different countries and civil society representatives to exchange information on individual cases and the situation of

06 May, 2016

Asylum seekers flown back to Sri Lanka from Cocos Islands

A group of asylum seekers whose wooden boat made it to within 500 metres of the Cocos Islands have been flown back to Sri Lanka in the cover of night, in a highly-secretive operation, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. The small boat was intercepted close to the Indian Ocean archipelago, about halfway between Australia and Sri Lanka, in rough weather on Monday morning.?Then, local eyewitnesses said, it was carrying an estimated 12 asylum seekers. But on Friday morning another local witness, w

06 May, 2016