The United Nations Human Rights Council should adopt a strong resolution on Sri Lanka that strengthens current UN mandates on accountability for crimes under international law and monitors the ...

Sri Lanka, on Wednesday (09), rejected the draft resolution which was tabled before the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) seeking to extend the mandate of Resolution 51/1 on promoting ...

Sri Lanka should put forward a time-bound and specific implementation plan on the four transitional justice mechanisms it agreed to establish as pledged in the resolution. The UN high commissioner ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A Sri Lankan diplomat has briefed the president of the U.N. Human Rights Council on the government's decision to withdraw from a 2015 resolution calling for an ...

Sri Lanka rejects the UNHRC resolution (51/1) against Sri Lanka, Cabinet Spokesman and Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath said yesterday. Addressing the media in Colombo, Herath said, “We do not accept ...

Introducing the resolution, Permanent Representative to the UK in Geneva, Ambassador Simon Manley said that the text is largely based on last year’s resolution but has been updated to reflect some of ...

Although not included in the resolution, UN High Commissioner of Human Rights Michelle Bachelet’s report on Sri Lanka in January specifically referred to a failure of “accountability” and ...

The resolution is not just about Sri Lanka but reveals the heavy diplomatic and geo-strategic pressures being exerted by the US on its allies in preparation for war against China.

Sri Lanka's prime minister said Wednesday that the government has decided to withdraw from co-sponsorship of a 2015 U.N. Human Rights Council resolution calling for the investigation of allegatio.