Year: 2018

Recent events in Sri Lanka have once again shown the immense political instability and lack of progress made in respect of democratic and human rights. The sudden removal of the prime minister and suspension of […]

Sri Lanka workers’ union calls for end to executive presidency Please see below a statement from the Ceylon Mercantile, Industrial and General Workers’ Union (CMU), which represents workers from the Sinhalese, Tamil and Tamil Muslim […]

Sri Lanka is experiencing a dramatic constitutional crisis – an unprecedented parliamentary coup. It has seen the president – Maithripala Sirisena – break his coalition with Ranil Wickramasinghe, suspend parliament and appoint the former dictator/president […]

From Human Right Watch, October 9, 2018 Summary On April 29, 2017, the Sri Lankan navy high command announced it would release 100 acres of land that security forces had been occupying in the Mullikulam […]

By PHIL MILLER A controversial visit to Scotland this week by Sri Lanka’s police chief has been cancelled at the last minute after organisers appeared to bow to external pressure. Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority has […]

Tamil Solidarity strongly condemns the arrest of Thirumurugan Gandhi and demands the Indian and Tamil Nadu state release him immediately. Mr Gandhi committed no crimes. He is a political campaigner and human rights defender. The […]

On 4 August the Refugee Rights Campaign (RRC) organised a protest in front of  the head office of company Serco in Victoria, London. Serco is a multimillion company that profits from contracting services including from […]

Ian Paisley, Democratic Unionist Party MP for North Antrim, Northern Ireland, is set to be suspended from the House of Commons for 30 sitting days. In 2013 he had taken his family on two holidays […]