Jul 23, 2023
40 years ago today, on 23 July 1983, saw the beginning of the worst anti-Tamil pogrom in Sri Lanka’s history. An estimated 3,000 died over several days at the hands of organised and coordinated Sinhalese mobs, as police officers looked on or even participated in...
May 18, 2023
On 18 May 2009, the war in Sri Lanka came to a bloody, murderous end on the beaches of Mullivaikkal, after months of brutal violence meted out by the Sri Lankan armed forces. Today, we remember the tens of thousands of Tamils who lost their lives in the final months...
Mar 7, 2023
Last week, President Ranil Wickremesinghe announced that Sri Lankan local elections, due to be held on 9th March 2023, will be indefinitely delayed, as the Sri Lankan government continues its assault on democratic rights. These elections, which had already been...
Jan 31, 2023
On Wednesday 1st February, the Sri Lankan government will undergo its fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. You can watch it here between 9:30-12:30 Geneva time. The UPR is a quadrennial review which allows member states to...
Jan 16, 2023
The Sri Lankan government should immediately end the arbitrary detention of Wasantha Mudalige, a student activist who was arrested on August 18, 2022, 7 human rights organizations said today. Since August 21, Mudalige, 29, has been held on orders signed by President...
Nov 8, 2022
Job Description The Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace and Justice is a small but dynamic campaigning organisation that aims to bring about a just and lasting peace in Sri Lanka based upon accountability and respect for human rights. We are multi-ethnic and non-partisan in...
Sep 28, 2022
At the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva this month, the Sri Lankan government has been pushing a great deal of misinformation about the prospects of accountability for historic and ongoing human rights abuses in the country. Frightened by the prospect of...
Sep 9, 2022
To read the first part of this series on militarisation in Sri Lanka, click here. The power wielded by the armed forces has been in the spotlight in Sri Lanka in the last few months as the economic crisis continues, with the military playing a prominent role both in...
Aug 24, 2022
Sri Lanka Campaign would like to thank Risa Thevakumaran for her hard work researching for and designing the infographics used in this article. In recent months, Sri Lanka has been rocked by an economic, social, and political crisis. Whilst the situation on the ground...
Aug 5, 2022
We, the undersigned organizations, condemn the Sri Lankan authorities’ violent crackdown and increasing reprisals against peaceful protesters in Sri Lanka. This includes arrests, intimidation and the brutal attack on the protest camp in Colombo on 22 July 2022....
