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Real Question Is Not Whether SL Should Go to IMF or Not

by |05 August 202107 September 2021|Verité in the News

Published in The Island The real question is not whether Sri Lanka should go to the IMF or not. What is important is going to the IMF with confidence after having analysed the fiscal situation, with a convincing plan, Executive...

Sri Lanka’s Rajapaksa Dynasty Is Not as Secure as It Appears

by |15 July 202106 September 2021|Verité in the News

Published in The Economist SINCE WINNING the presidency in a landslide nearly two years ago, Gotabaya Rajapaksa has worried not that he has too many relatives in government, but that he has too few. One of the 72-year-old’s elder brothers,...

30 / 1 යෝජනාවලිය – වසර හතරක් ගතවී ඇතත් සම්පූර්ණ කර තිබෙන්නේ පොරොන්දු 36න් 6ක් පමණකි.

by |25 March 201925 March 2019|Interviews & Articles

2015 වසරේ දී එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලයට ඉදිරිපත් වූ 30-1 යෝජනාවලියට සම අනුග‍්‍රහකත්වය දැක්වූ ශී‍්‍ර ලංකාව ඒ හරහා මානව හිමිකම්, වගවීම සහ සංහිදියාව යන අංශයන් ආවරණය කරමින් පියවර රැසක් කි‍්‍රයාත්මක කිරීමට කැපවන බවට සහතික විය. පසුගිය 20 වැනිදා, ජගත්...

Sri Lanka made ‘poor progress’ in rights resolution observes local think-tank

by |20 March 201920 March 2019|Verité in the News

Taken from TheWeek Colombo, Mar 20 (PTI) Sri Lanka has made "poor progress" by implementing only 6 of the 36 commitments it made as part a UNHRC resolution adopted in 2015 to address human rights concerns, a local think tank...

UNHRC Resolution, Guided by India, to Give Breather to Sri Lankan Government

by |20 March 201920 March 2019|Verité in the News

Taken from TheWire Photo Courtesy - Reuters The Geneva-based body will adopt a new resolution that will give time till 2021 for the Sri Lankan government to fully implement commitments it made four years ago on transitional justice and accountability....

Resolution 30/1: Four Years on, 6/36 Completed – Part 04

by |20 March 201920 March 2019|Interviews & Articles

Part IV: Overall Progress: This week, Verité Research (VR) concludes its four-part series on Resolution 30/1. In 2015, Sri Lanka co-sponsored United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Resolution 30/1 and committed to a range of measures on human rights,...

Resolution 30/1: Four Years on, 6/36 Completed – Part 03

by |19 March 201919 March 2019|Interviews & Articles

Part III: Security and Demilitarisation Sri Lanka co-sponsored Resolution 30/1 in 2015 and committed to a range of measures on human rights, accountability and reconciliation. Sri Lanka’s progress in fulfilling its commitments will be discussed on March 20, 2019, at...

Resolution 30/1: Four Years on, 6/36 Completed – Part 02

by |18 March 201918 March 2019|Interviews & Articles

Part II: Rights, the Rule of Law & International Engagement UNHRC Resolution 30/1. By co-sponsoring Resolution 30/1 in 2015, Sri Lanka committed to a range of measures on human rights, accountability and reconciliation. Sri Lanka’s progress in fulfilling its commitments...

Resolution 30/1: Four Years on, 6/36 Completed – Part 01

by |18 March 201918 March 2019|Interviews & Articles

Part I: Transitional Justice, Reconciliation and Power Sharing: In 2015, Sri Lanka co-sponsored United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Resolution 30/1 and committed to a range of measures on human rights, accountability and reconciliation. Sri Lanka’s progress in fulfilling its...

Sri Lanka only partly met UN promise to release military-held land, study finds

by |15 March 201915 March 2019|Verité in the News

Taken from economynext Sri Lanka’s military has only partially fulfilled promises to the United Nations to release lands occupied during its war against Tamil Tiger separatists, delaying resettlement of refugees in the north where unemployment remains high, a new study...

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