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According to the Human Development Organization (HDO), around 200 people are missing. in the Meeriyabede estate earthslipe, koslanda, Sri Lanka. People in the affected area reported that they were not received any warming before the landslide, and the rights to land and housing of plantation workers are not respected in the aftermath of the disaster. Although the authorities have been engaging with relief actions, victims claim a lack of proper assistance from the government agencies. Click the image to read the full report

Northern Provincial Council (NPC) writes to the President Mahinda Rajapaksa to address the Special District Development Meeting with the President which is scheduled to take place on 13th October 2014. Read the letter by clicking the image below.  

Dr. Nimalka Fernando, IMADR president, shared her committment and life-long struggles to ensure the protection and promotion of human rights in Sri Lanka, at the interview by Groundviews. _____Click the image to watch the video ——— In conversation with Nimalka Fernando: Life as an activist in Sri Lanka (Groundviews, 10/10/2014) Nimalka Fernando is one of Sri Lanka’s best known human rights activists and the President of the International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism (IMADR). Nimalka’s activism has in recent years generated violent pushback from the Government – prime time radio programmes on State owned channels have openly and with impunity discussed ways to silence her permanently, and […]

IMADR and Forum Asia delivered a joint statement on “Attacks and reprisals against human rights defenders” at the NGO briefing on Sri Lanka with the Human Rights Committee on 7th October 2014. At the 112th session of the Human Rights Committee, the State party report of Sri Lanka under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) was reviewed from the afternoon of 7th to the morning of 8th October 2014. As a result of this consideration, concluding observations with recommendations will be issued from the Committee later this month. Summary of the comments and questions raised by the Committee during the review is available below. ———— DAY 1 Constitutional […]

IMADR engagement with the  26th regular session of the UN Human Rights Council. Find our oral statements at the latest Council session here. Oral Statements Item 3: Interactive Dialogues with the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, “Arbitrary Detention in Australia and Sri Lanka“*  Item 3: Interactive Dialogues with the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, “Enforced Disappearance and Reprisals in Sri Lanka” *  Item 4: General Debate, “Repression on human rights defenders in Sri Lanka” Half-day discussion on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, “Indigenous peoples and natural disaster risk reduction in Nepal” (joint statement)  Items 3 & 5: Clustered ID with SR on indigenous peoples & Expert Mechanism on the Rights […]

January 25, 1988 was the day when IMADR was formally founded. IMADR has just celebrated its 25th anniversary on February 5, 2013, during its 18th session of Board of Directors Meeting held in Sri Lanka. You can see the brief history of IMADR in the leaflet below. 25 years of IMADR leaflet (PDF)