In a recent article published in World Politics Review, academic Jocelyn Belanger argued that the Sri Lankan experience of ‘rehabilitating’ Tamil Tiger (LTTE) militants at the end of the country’s long civil war in 2009 offers a valuable model for countering violent...
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...
Witness protection is a vital component of any judicial process in which there is a high risk of reprisals against those giving evidence. In Sri Lanka, the unreformed nature of the security forces (the target of many allegations) and the culture of impunity they...
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...
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...
