1) Worldwide Appeals: DRC: Tortured in detention; Paraguay: Yakye Axa and Sawhoyamaxa Indigenous communities; Iraq: Detained without trial for nine years; Nepal ...
A quarter of a million Sri Lankans now being held in de facto detention camps are facing a humanitarian disaster as monsoon rains threaten to flood camps, said ...
Journalist and media rights activist, Dileesha Abeysundera is in danger after a gang of unidentified people threatened her and tried to forcefully gain access to ...
A detainee was seriously injured and had to be hospitalized as a clashbroke out between the Sri Lankan Army and detainees being held ata school in Vavuniya in north ...
Only a fraction of nearly 300000 people who were displaced by recentfighting in the north east of Sri Lanka have been allowed to leavegovernment camps since the ...
Four of the five doctors held under emergency regulations by the Sri Lankan government for providing "false information" to foreign journalists have been released ...
Attacks on journalists, intimidation and restrictions on reporting threaten freedom of expression in Sri Lankaand jeopardize the safety and dignity of civilians ...
Five doctors being held, under emergency regulations, by the Sri Lankan government for providing erroneous information on civilian casualties remain vulnerable ...
In May 2009, the Sri Lankan government declared victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. By the end of May 2009 an additional 300000 displaced people ...
