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Human Rights, Issues, Politics and Governance, Transitional Justice

UPDATE: Flip-flopping on Accountability – A Timeline

Featured image courtesy ada.lk On March 21, 2018, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tilak Marapana flagged the operationalisation of the Office on Missing Persons, the use of the Right to Information Act,…

Raisa Wickrematunge Raisa Wickrematunge on 03/23/201807/28/2020
International Relations, Issues, Politics and Governance, Reconciliation, Transitional Justice

Ongoing UNHRC session: What’s in store for Sri Lanka?

The term ‘painfully slow progress’ has become a standard descriptor for Sri Lanka’s overall pace of implementation of UNHRC resolution A/HRC/30/1  in Geneva. It has been two years since Sri Lanka cosponsored…

Sunanda Deshapriya Sunanda Deshapriya on 09/25/201709/25/2017
Peace and Conflict, Transitional Justice

Incorporating International Crimes into Sri Lankan Law: The Need for Legislative Reform

Featured image courtesy Al Jazeera In a paper published recently, Eleanor Vermunt and I argued that international crimes must be incorporated into Sri Lankan law with retroactive effect in order to enable…

Isabelle Lassee Isabelle Lassee on 09/22/2016

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