UN Group on missing to visit Sri Lanka
The United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances has confirmed the dates of its visit to Sri Lanka this year. The Working Group,...
19A for the South – ‘Zero’ for…
Sri Lankan Members of Parliament successfully adopted the 19th amendment on 28 April 2015. In a Parliament of 225 members, 212 voted in favour of...
Smaller parties unhappy with electoral reform plan
Sri Lanka’s smaller political parties representing minority communities have expressed opposition to the proposed 20th amendment to the constitution which incorporates reforms to the electoral...
Security breach not linked to unit dissolution
The Sri Lankan Army on Saturday denied that the dissolution of the President’s Security Guard (PSG), which had been existence since 2008, was in response...
Press Freedom in South Asia
This 13th annual review of journalism in the region, The Freedom Frontier: Press Freedom in South Asia 2014-15, was released by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) on...