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...
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 1, 2018
At this very moment, over a hundred thousand UN peacekeepers are deployed in nearly twenty countries around the world. Their purpose is just as their name suggests: to keep the peace; to stand between civilians and the forces that would harm them; to protect. And, by...
Aug 31, 2016
This is an open letter to the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. It is also available as a PDF here. Dear Secretary-General, Much has changed in Sri Lanka since your last visit in May 2009. On that occasion you said “I have travelled around the world...
Oct 4, 2012
We, and several other NGOs, wrote the following letter to the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth on the 21st September: Dear Secretary-General, When Commonwealth countries announced at the 2011 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Australia that Sri...
