Available for download in English here. Tamil translation coming soon. As the world struggles to deal with an unprecedented global pandemic, it is imperative that states choose an approach that respects human rights in addressing this crisis. This brief highlights several human rights concerns in relation to Sri Lanka’s militarised approach to responding to the…
Adayaalam Centre for Policy Research (ACPR) Situation Brief No.2 Surveillance, Harassment and Intimidation of Disappearances’ Activists in the North-East August 30, 2018 Full brief available for download in English with footnotes here. I. Background Over the last two years, the issue of enforced disappearances has become an increasingly central topic in the conversation around human…
Adayaalam Centre for Policy Research (ACPR) Issue Brief No. 3 Tamil Political Prisoners: Suggestions for a Comprehensive Legal Policy Approach May 7, 2018 Full brief with footnotes available for download in English as a PDF here. I. Introduction Mr. Satchithanantham Ananthasuthakaran, sentenced to life under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) in 2017, was given three…
Issue Brief No. 2: Families of the Disappeared and the OMP: Is there a path forward? May 9, 2017 Over eight months ago, the Sri Lankan parliament passed the Office of Missing Persons (OMP) Act, designed to create an investigatory mechanism to provide answers to the over 100,000 families of disappeared who still do not…
Issue Brief No. 1: December 2, 2016 The Sub-Committee on Centre-Periphery Relations and the Unitary State On November 19, 2016, the Prime Minister and Chairman of the Constitutional Steering Committee, Mr. Ranil Wickremasinghe, tabled the reports of the six sub-committees of the Steering Committee in the Constitutional Assembly. Formally, these reports combined were presented as…
Situation Brief No. 1: November 18, 2016 Student Killings, Aava Gang and the Securitisation of Jaffna A topmost concern of the Tamil community in the North-East is the Sri Lankan Government’s failure to meaningfully confront systemic policing and military intelligence issues that have once again been brought to the forefront by the recent killings of…
