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Sri Lanka: Criminalisation of same-sex sexual activity breached rights of a LGBTI activist, UN women’s rights committee finds 3/23/2022
  • Press Releases
  • Sri Lanka
  • Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
  • Women
E F S R C A
Human Rights Council holds separate interactive dialogues on the human rights situations in Eritrea and in Sri Lanka 3/4/2022
  • Press Releases
  • Eritrea
  • Sri Lanka
  • Human Rights Council
  • Human Rights Council
E F S R C A
Update and Interactive dialogue on Sri Lanka 3/4/2022
  • Statements/Messages
  • Sri Lanka
  • High Commissioner for Human Rights
  • Human Rights Council
E F S R C A
Sri Lanka: UN experts call for swift suspension of Prevention of Terrorism Act and reform of counter-terrorism law 3/2/2022
  • Press Releases
  • Sri Lanka
  • Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence
  • Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism
  • Special Rapporteur on Minorities Issues
  • Sp. Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief
  • Sp. Rapporteur on torture
  • WG on Arbitrary Detention
  • WG on Disappearances
  • Terrorism
  • Freedom of association
  • Enforced or involuntary disappearances
  • Arbitrary detention
  • Minorities
  • Truth justice and reparation
  • Religious intolerance
  • Torture and inhuman treatment
E F S R C A
Press briefing notes on Sri Lanka 2/25/2022
  • Press Releases
  • Press Briefing Notes
  • Sri Lanka
  • High Commissioner for Human Rights
E F S R C A
Sri Lanka: UN expert calls for ‘inclusive society’ to end scourge of slavery 12/3/2021
  • Press Releases
  • Sri Lanka
  • Sp. Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery
  • Slavery
E F S R C A
End of Mission Statement by the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences on his country visit to Sri Lanka, 26 November-3 December 2021 12/3/2021
  • Statements/Messages
  • Sri Lanka
  • Sp. Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery
  • Slavery
E F S R C A
Sri Lanka: UN expert to visit to assess contemporary forms of slavery 11/24/2021
  • Press Releases
  • Sri Lanka
  • Sp. Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery
  • Slavery
E F S R C A
Human Rights Council Continues General Debate on the High Commissioner’s Global Human Rights Update, as well as her Updates on Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Sri Lanka 9/14/2021
  • Press Releases
  • Afghanistan
  • Nicaragua
  • Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
  • Sri Lanka
  • Human Rights Council
  • High Commissioner for Human Rights
  • Human Rights Council
E F S R C A
Oral Update on the human rights situation in Sri Lanka 9/13/2021
  • Statements/Messages
  • Sri Lanka
  • High Commissioner for Human Rights
E F S R C A
       
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