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2016.09.23 “More needs to be done”, message to Sri Lanka to heal wounds from enforced disappearances (20 September 2016)
On Tuesday 20th September, during the 33rd session of the UN Human Right...
2016.09.14 HRC 33 Side Event: Enforced Disappearances in Sri Lanka (1 pm, 20 September)
Together with Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD)...
2016.09.05 Sri Lanka: Government adopted law to establish the Office of Missing Persons (OMP) as the first transitional justice mechanism
On 11th August, the Sri Lankan Parliament passed the Office of the Mis...
2016.08.29 UN: CERD adopted concluding observations of Greece, Lebanon, Pakistan, Paraguay, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Ukraine and the United Kingdom (August 2016)
On 26th August, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimina...
2016.08.26 PRESS RELEASE: Sri Lanka must take immediate action to combat racial discrimination by implementing UN recommendations
Download the press release We urge the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL...
2016.08.19 UN: Call to Action to Promote Gender Parity
Today the IMADR joined the International Disability Alliance, Internatio...
2016.07.18 Publication: “BUSYBODY FOR PEACE: The Life and Work of Nimalka Fernando of Sri Lanka”
Co-Chairperson of IMADR, Nimalka Fernando, was selected as one of the 20...
2016.07.18 UN: CERD address racial discrimination in Greece, Lebanon, Pakistan, Paraguay, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Ukraine and the United Kingdom (August 2016)
At its 90th session from 2nd to 26th August 2016, UN Committee on the El...
2016.07.12 Sri Lanka: Discrimination against tea plantation Tamils reported to UN
At the 90th session of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discr...
2016.06.21 HRC 32 Side Event: Accountability and Good Governance in Sri Lanka (4:30 pm, 24 June)
Together with Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) ...