The European Union stressed the importance of human rights and reconciliation during the 22nd meeting of the Joint Commission between the EU and Sri Lanka, held in Brussels today, highlighting the need for "further progress" on the UN Human Rights Council resolution 30/1. 

Pakistan’s president has awarded the country’s highest military award to a Sri Lankan navy officer who is currently on bail over aiding a key suspect involved in the abduction and murder of 11 Tamil youths.

The United Kingdom and European Union this week reiterated their opposition to Sri Lanka's proposed implementation of the death penalty. 

The Sri Lankan navy announced that it had arrested an Indian national in Mannar on Thursday.

A delegation from the Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) met with the US Ambassador to Sri Lanka and a Sri Lankan government minister, ahead of the upcoming UN Human Rights Council session later this month.

Residents of a Mullaitivu village have accused the Sri Lankan army of exploiting the area’s clean water sources and contaminating the water that civilians use.

People from around Kanukkeni-Thanneerootru in the Karaithuraipattu (Maritimepattu) division said that the army extracts hundreds of thousands of litres of fresh water every day from a guarded tube well in the area and has been doing so for the past ten years to supply several military camps in the Mullaitivu district.

Speakers from all three major parties in the UK called for the full implementation of a UN Human Rights Council resolution on accountability in Sri Lanka, during a debate in the House of Lords last week.

The Tamil Homeland Parents of Disappeared Forum has called for Sri Lanka to be referred to the International Criminal Court and for a United Nations peacekeeping force to be deployed to the North-East, as families continue to search for their missing children.

Sri Lanka's ministry of finance this week raised the price of fuel from midnight on February 11. 

The Vice President of the World Bank, Hartwig Schafer, arrived in Sri Lanka today on a three-day visit.