Category: Briefs

Situation Brief No.3: COVID-19: Sri Lanka’s militarised response poses grave threats to human rights

Adayaalam Centre for Policy Research (ACPR) Situation Brief No. 3 COVID-19: Sri Lanka’s militarised response poses grave threats to human rights April 30, 2020 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…

Situation Brief No. 2: Surveillance, Harassment and Intimidation of Disappearances’ Activists in the North-East

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…

Issue Brief No. 3 – Tamil Political Prisoners: Suggestions for a Comprehensive Legal Policy Approach

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.1: The Sub-Committee on Centre-Periphery Relations and the Unitary State

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…