1. Introduction: The Right to Life Human Rights Centre (R2L), collaborating with NPC, CHRD, and PCA, is implementing the PUJA Project aimed at building public support for justice and accountability processes across ethnic divides in Sri Lanka. A key component of this project is the creation of a dedicated website featuring curated stories of victims, …
Efficiency of Sri Lankaโs Social Safety Nets with Special Focus on Aswesuma
To mark International Human Rights Day – 2023, the Right to Life Human Rights Centre launched the quarterly torture monitoring report titled as TRUTH (Targeting Rights: Unraveling Torture’s Harm). The objective of this quarterly newsletter is to monitor the aspect of torture in Sri Lanka and report on the prevalence, measures for prevention, and legal …
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Journalists for Rights, a rights-based journalists’ trade union and civil society organization affiliated with the Right to Life Human Rights Center submitted a set of proposals to the Committee for Development of National Media Policy in Sri Lanka. Ministry of Media Sri Lankan Ministry of Media under the patronage of the United Nations Development Programme …
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Sri Lanka Collective Against Torture held a seminar in Colombo on September 25 to discuss the Anti-Terror Bill that the government has published on the gazette. This bill was first introduced in March but later it was withdrawn due to protests from the civil society. Opening the dialogue, Dulan Dasanayake, AAL, pointed out that …
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The last day of the proud march to win the rights of the “Malayaga” people ( Hill country tamils) was yesterday (12) from Nalanda to Matale town.
The life of a seemingly insignificant 17-year-old youth named Sandun Malinga from Meegaskiwula in the Badulla District took a tragic turn. His value as a person appeared to hold little weight to the group of five police officers and a civil defense officer who subjected him to a fatal beating on a dark night in …
Some citizens of this country are still struggling for a long time to get justice against the violence faced by them and their beloveds which is a tragedy. But the real tragedy is obtaining justice is not a quick task in our country. According to Minister Ali Sabri, it usually takes 9 1/2 years to …
