Companies must shoulder some of the blame
Plantations in Sri Lanka that supply tea stamped slavery-free to top global companies are under investigation by ethical label groups after an expose found illegal...
Tamils will have to take cases to the International Criminal Court
The Ilankai Tamil Arasu Katchi (ITAK) Member of Parliament M.A. Sumanthiran’s constitutional justification for seeking foreign judges to serve in the proposed Judicial Mechanism to try...
There is strong disappointment
The Global Tamil Forum (GTF) acknowledges the passing of the resolution ‘Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka’ (40/1) at the UN Human...
UNHRC resolution on Sri Lanka meets Colombo’s requirements
The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC)’s resolution on the rights situation in Sri Lanka, which was passed in Geneva on Thursday through consensus, meets Colombo’s...
Sri Lanka rejects proposal for OHCHR office and deadline
Foreign Minister, Tilak Marapana, denied that the armed forces had committed war crimes and that it is not possible to establish a hybrid judicial mechanism...
Looking for a new lease of life
The political crisis that gripped Sri Lanka for nearly two months towards the tail end of 2018 had different costs for different political actors, depending...
Sri Lanka’s women want to work—and thrive in the workplace
Being a woman, mother, sister, aunt – name it, it’s something women wake up to daily and they love it. None of them question about...
Bouquets and brickbats
Ahead of a resolution on Sri Lanka set to come up for procedural extension at the end of the 42nd Session of the UN Human...
Report must be implemented
Responding to the publication of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights’ report on ‘Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in...
Free Expression and Terror Laws?
Rights activists and journalists have condemned the Sri Lankan government’s Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) and planned Counter Terrorism Act (CTA). They claim that all...
Ensure Sri Lanka remains on UNHRC agenda
The Global Tamil Forum (GTF) calls on the international community and the members of the UNHRC, to ensure that Sri Lanka firmly remains on the...
Companies reap profits while workers wages are unaffordable
When over 100,000 estate workers went on strike last December to demand a 1,000-rupee ($US5.50) daily basic wage, the Planters Association of Ceylon, the representative...