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Enforced Disappearances; A Problem Sri Lanka Seeking Solutions for Five Decades

(To mark the 35th Annual Commemoration of the Disappeared) By Philip Dissanayake, Executive Director, Right to Life Human Rights Centre Sri Lanka has a long history of enforced disappearances. The period from the 1970s until the end of the civil war in 2009 is cited as a time when disappearances were severely reported in the […]

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Protecting the Vulnerable: Why Sri Lanka’s Proposed Penal Code Amendment Risks Discipline and Fails to Tackle Systemic Child Abuse

A critical human rights discussion has been ignited in Sri Lanka following the government’s proposal to amend the Penal Code to prohibit corporal and psychological punishment. While the objective to protect children from physical and mental abuse is fundamentally sound and aligned with international human rights standards, the specific language of the bill introduces a

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Sri Lanka Hosts Landmark International Conference to Tackle Violence Against Children

Colombo, Sri Lanka | 25 July 2025 – Marking a decisive move to combat all forms of violence against children, the International Conference on Child Protection (ICCP’25) commenced today in Colombo and will continue until July 27. This is the first international conference of its kind hosted in Sri Lanka and brings together over 250

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වසංගත දෙකකට මැදි වූ ශ්‍රී ලංකාව

කොරොනා වසංගතය මේ වන විට ශ්‍රී ලංකාව තුළ ඉතා සීග්‍රයෙන් පැතිරෙමින් තිබේ. රජයේ වෛද්‍ය නිළධාරීන්ගේ සංගමය, විෂේශඥ වෛද්‍යවරුන්ගේ සංගමය, ඇතුළු වෛද්‍ය සංගම් ද, හෙද නිළධාරීන්ගේ සංගම් හා මහජන සෞඛ්‍ය පරීක්ෂකවරැන්ගේ සංගමය ඇතුළු සෞඛ්‍ය අංශයේ විවිධ වෘත්තිකයින්ගේ සංගම් ඒක හඩින් පවසන්නේ මේ තත්ත්වය තව දුරටත් පැවතුනහොත් ඉදිරි දින කිහිපය තුළ දී ශ්‍රී ලංකාව විශාලා මහනුවරක් විය

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