Sri Lanka Letters
Sri Lanka Human Rights Defender Sunila Abeyasekara | Oral Statement to the Human Rights Council
09/09/2013
Full Statement pdf Date: 9 September 2013 Item 2: General Debate Speaker: Gary Anandasangaree Mr. President, Madam High Commissioner, Your Excellencies You are all too familiar with the work of Sunila Abeyasekara. The name is synonymous with human rights in Sri Lanka – a mission that … [Read more...]
Sri Lanka: Oral Intervention at the UN Human Rights Council on Deteriorating Human Rights in Sri Lanka | Statement
13/03/2013
PDF version Re: Interactive Dialogue with High Commissioner Lawyers Rights Watch Canada March 4, 2013 Speaker: Vani Selvarajah Thank you Mr. President, Madam High Commissioner, on behalf of Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada and the International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination … [Read more...]
Sri Lanka: Threat to arrest individuals attending the 22nd Session of the Human Rights Council | Letter
13/03/2013
To: President Remigiusz Henczel, UN Human Rights Council From: Gail Davidson, Executive Director, LRWC Re: Threat to arrest individuals attending the 22nd Session of the Human Rights Council Date: March 10, 2013 PDF version As you may know, there is a resolution critical of Sri … [Read more...]
Sri Lanka: Oral Intervention at the UN Human Rights Council on Deteriorating Human Rights in Sri Lanka | Video
06/03/2013
Oral Intervention by Vanitha Selvarajah at the UN Human Rights Council On March 4, 2013, Vanitha Selvarajah gave an oral intervention on behalf of LRWC at the 22nd session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on the deteriorating situation in Sri Lanka. In her address, Ms. Selvarajah notes the … [Read more...]
Sri Lanka: Impeachment of Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake | Letter
16/01/2013
Re: Impeachment of Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake To: President Mahinda Rajapakse From: Gail Davidson, Executive Director, LRWC Date: January 16, 2013 To view a PDF version, please click here. Lawyers Rights Watch Canada (LRWC)[1] is deeply alarmed by the motion passed today by the … [Read more...]
Sri Lanka: Reprisals against supporters of Human Rights Council Resolution
28/03/2012
Re: Reprisals against supporters of Human Rights Council Resolution A/HRC/19/L.2, “Promoting Reconciliation and Accountability in Sri Lanka” To: President Mahinda Rajapakse From: Gail Davidson, Executive Director, LRWC Date: 2012-03-28 Lawyers Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) is deeply … [Read more...]
Sri Lanka: PAIKIASOTHY SARAVANAMUTTU – Executive Director of the Centre for Policy Alternatives
26/03/2012
On 20 August 2009, Dr. Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu received an anonymous death threat. It had been typed in English and posted to his residence in Colombo, Sri Lanka. According to its contents, Saravanamuttu was being targeted because of information he purportedly supplied to the European Union with … [Read more...]
Sri Lanka Human Rights Abuses: Statement made at Interactive Dialogue with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights 27 February 2012
27/02/2012
Sri Lanka: Statement at Interactive Dialogue 27 February 2012 See full statement … [Read more...]
Sri Lanka: 3rd and 4th Periodic Report on the Implementation of the Convention Against Torture
31/10/2011
Executive Summary: These submissions are made by Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada in aid of the Committee against Torture’s (CAT) examination of the combined 3rd and 4th Periodic Report of Sri Lanka outlining its implementation of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading … [Read more...]
Sri Lanka Accountability: Statement to the Human Rights Council 12 September 2011
27/09/2011
Human Rights Council: Interactive Dialogue Accountability for war crimes in Sri Lanka – Recommendations of Panel of Experts. see full statement … [Read more...]
