Last Friday, the UN Special Rapporteur (SR) on Human Rights and Counter Terrorism, Ben Emmerson QC, issued a statement of findings upon the conclusion of his visit to Sri Lanka. You can read it in full here. The statement begins with a hard-hitting assessment of the...
A joint statement by the Sri Lanka Campaign, Adayaalam Centre for Policy Research (Jaffna, Sri Lanka), the International Truth and Justice Project (Johannesburg, South Africa), People for Equality and Relief in Lanka (Washington DC, United States of America) and Tamil...
Earlier this month, the Sri Lanka Campaign addressed a joint letter to MEPs calling on them to reject the EU Commission’s proposal to restore ‘GSP+’ to Sri Lanka – the preferential trading scheme that was suspended in 2010 following serious human rights...
Over the weekend, a draft framework copy of the ‘Counter Terrorism Act’ (CTA) – the legislation intended to replace the draconian ‘Prevention of Terrorism Act’ (PTA) – was leaked to the press. The contents of the text, available here, are deeply disturbing. As it...
