Summary: The South Asian report is a new comprehensive rights-based report which, for the first time, objectively measures the extent to which the South Asian governments and non-state actors have contributed to the creation of child-friendly...
Summary: This report extracts mentions of children's rights issues in the reports of all UN Treaty Bodies and their follow-up procedures. This does not include the Concluding Observations of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child which are...
Summary: Opening remarks by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay at a press conference during her mission to Sri LankaGood morning, and thank you for coming.
As is customary at the end of official missions such as this, I would...
Summary: A compilation of extracts featuring child-rights issues from the reports submitted to the second Universal Periodic Review. There are extracts from the 'National Report', the 'Compilation of UN Information' and the 'Summary of Stakeholders...
Summary: In Sri Lanka, many young children have no access to schooling, and their development is dangerously delayed. Because a child’s learning process must be promoted in the first years of life, Terre des hommes has now set up a project to build...
Summary: The Human Rights Council should unequivocally condemn the latest effort by the government of Sri Lanka to silence dissent and intimidate human rights defenders, the International Service for Human Rights said today.The UN Human Rights...
Summary: According to the director of a UK documentary, the Sri Lankan army's involvement in war crimes included summary executions and torture during the island's 37-year-long civil war.
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Photos to publicise a new...
Summary: The maid's supporter say she was 17 when she allegedly smothered the baby under her watch. [9 January 2013] - Saudi Arabia has beheaded a Sri Lankan domestic worker for killing a baby in her care in 2005 in a case that has been widely...
Summary: The 14th Session of the Universal Periodic Review will take place from 22 October - 5 November 2012. Below is a list of the countries to be reviewed during the session.
The 14th session of the UPR opened in Geneva on 22 October, with the...
Summary: The review of Sri Lanka during the second cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) took place on 1 November, and marked the first review since the end of the country’s civil war in 2009Sri Lanka has repeatedly refused calls from the...
