Govt committed to promote and protect human rights
In this context, we like to share with the
Committee, information on ongoing progress in Sri Lanka, as well as
challenges that we continue to encounter in our persistent efforts
to promote and protect human rights, in accordance with our
constitutional and treaty obligations, using national and
international means.
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Death penalty threatens to split world body
The 192-member U.N. General Assembly is expected
to vote, perhaps by early or mid-November, on one of the most
divisive political issues before the world body: a moratorium on the
death penalty.
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Thamilselvan - the ‘political’ face of the militant LTTE
THE news about the death of S.P Thamilselvan,
the political wing leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam,
in a raid by the Sri Lanka Air Force came at a time the organisation
is undergoing a stormy period at the hands of the Security Forces in
the North and East and also internationally.
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