Apr 13, 2021
Next week, more than 200 Sri Lankan troops will be deployed to a UN peacekeeping mission in Mali. We want to stop that from happening, and ask for your help to ensure that it doesn’t. Why? Because in 2019, the UN itself announced it was suspending deployment of Sri...
Nov 8, 2019
Early next week, 243 Sri Lankan troops will be deployed to a UN peacekeeping mission in Mali. We want to stop that from happening, and would like to ask for your help in ensuring that it doesn’t. Why? Because the UN itself recently pledged to scale back...
Sep 26, 2019
Some good news: yesterday, a UN spokesperson confirmed to a reporter that Sri Lankan troops would – unless their presence was deemed vital to security – be banned from further deployments to UN peacekeeping missions. It means that as soon as next month, any Sri Lankan...
Oct 24, 2018
Earlier this year, the Sri Lanka Campaign was one of several organisations who raised the alarm about the growing number of Sri Lankan troops being dispatched to UN peacekeeping missions – despite unaddressed allegations of grave human rights violations by the...
May 17, 2018
Earlier this month we wrote about the growing numbers of Sri Lankan troops participating in UN Peacekeeping missions, despite unaddressed allegations of serious human rights violations committed by them. Those allegations include the “widespread and brutal” use of...
