Conflict-related sexual violence in Sri Lanka remains largely unaddressed more than 15 years after the end of the civil war, with survivors still denied justice, recognition and reparations, according ...

MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka (AP) — For 15 years, Rasalingam Thilakawathi has been trying to find out what happened to her daughter at the end of Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war. Or if she might still be alive.

A US-based leading human rights organisation has urged Sri Lanka to prosecute perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against ...

UN report reveals ongoing impunity for sexual violence against Tamils by Sri Lankan security forces during the civil war.

MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s Tamil people still live in the shadow of defeat in the civil war that tore the country apart until it ended 15 years ago. Some parents have given up hope of ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) – Sri Lanka will not implement all proposals from its civil war commission because the panel went beyond its mandate, a government minister said Monday after a U.N. rights ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s government has criticized a United Nations report on the conclusion of island’s civil war, saying the allegations against the government are “unsubstantiated and ...

The United Nations says an investigation has found "credible evidence" that the Sri Lanka government -- as well as the Tamil Tigers -- committed war crimes in the last days of the war against the ...

Mullivaikkal, Sri Lanka – On a beach in northeastern Sri Lanka, Krishnan Anjan Jeevarani laid out some of her family’s favourite food items on a banana leaf. She placed a samosa, lollipops and a large ...

“They didn’t believe that anyone in the international community was willing to stop them, and they were right.” That is the lucid explanation offered by John Holmes, the British diplomat and former ...

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka has refused a visa request for a U.S. State Department official, the U.S. Embassy said on Tuesday, after Washington signalled it would propose a U.N. resolution against ...