Jul 21, 2017
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...
Apr 20, 2017
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...
Feb 3, 2017
Earlier last month the Sri Lanka Campaign wrote an open letter to the EU Commission calling on it to postpone a decision to restore GSP+ preferential trade status to Sri Lanka in light of ongoing concerns about the widespread and systematic use of torture in the...
Dec 14, 2016
The EU may be about to turn a blind eye to torture in Sri Lanka. Here’s how you can stop them. In just under a month’s time, the EU Commission will take a decision on whether to begin the process of restoring ‘GSP+’ preferential trade status to Sri Lanka, the scheme...
Nov 18, 2016
This week saw the conclusion of the UN Committee Against Torture’s review of Sri Lanka, a regular process of expert-based scrutiny designed to monitor implementation of the Convention Against Torture. The meeting, held in Geneva between members of the Committee and a...
