US Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Julie Chung, has stressed that Local Government elections are critical for Sri Lanka's democracy.

Chung spoke as the Chief Guest at the National Law Conference organized by the Bar Association of Sri Lanka in Colombo on 12 March. 

Speaking in Sri Lanka’s parliament on Thursday, Sri Lanka’s State Minister of Tourism, Diana Gamage, encouraged violence against student demonstrators to end their protests.

Marcia V. J. Kran, Canadian lawyer and expert member of the UN Human Rights Committee, pressed Sri Lanka delegate Major General Kulatunga about his role in overseeing the Joseph Camp in Vavuniya, plagued with allegations of torture, and the Army Court’s denial of war crimes. 

Sri Lankan police have arrested the head of the Association of Relatives of the Disappeared, Kasipillai Jayavanitha, for allegedly illegally obtaining electricity for the shed which has served as the base for their six-year-long protest.

British MP and Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Tamils (APPGT), Elliot Colburn, has written to the UN Human Rights Committee to urge the committee to question the attendance of Maj. General Kulatunga during its 6th-period review and noted his role in overseeing the Joseph Camp in Vavuniya.

Sri Lanka’s Chief of National Intelligence, and accused war criminal, Ruwan Kulatunga, is to virtually attend the UN Human Rights Committee’s 6^th periodic review, on behalf of the government despite concern over his human rights record.

Sri Lanka's Election Commission have announced April 25, 2023 as a possible date for the local government elections to take place after they were postponed last month. 

Sri Lanka is close to securing the $2.9 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after China gave its assurances that it will support the island's debt restructuring. 

The 15th anniversary of the assassination of Tamil MP Kiddinan Sivanesan was commemorated in Jaffna and Mullaitivu yesterday. 

After a six-year battle against the UK Home Office, Susita Balasubranamiamm, a 66-year old grandmother, has won he right to remain in Britain with her family.

Tamil Refugees have sought legal help to bring a judicial review to British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) high court over the commissioner's intention to return around 94 refugees to Sri Lanka

For over a year, around 94 refugees – including families with children – have been held in prison-like conditions in Diego Garcia, the largest island of the BIOT.

Concluding the 42^nd Universal Period Review of human rights, the Council urged the Sri Lankan government to address issues affecting the North and East which included continued land grabs and missing persons.

The general statement notes: