A report titled ‘From Fear to Violence: Religious Attacks in Sri Lanka’ has revealed an alarming escalation in religiously motivated violence across the island, exposing a pattern of aggression, impunity, and systemic discrimination that disproportionately targets non-Sinhala Buddhists.

 A US$1 million United Nations-funded initiative to conduct an extensive marine scientific survey in Sri Lanka’s coastal waters is under threat due to the government’s failure to finalize a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for foreign research vessels, according to media reports.

A report submitted to court by Sri Lanka’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has revealed that 69 inmates were released under the guise of presidential pardons despite lacking official authorisation.

Land disputes centred on access, control, and distribution remain a major challenge to peacebuilding in the North-East, according to a recent report supported by the UN Sri Lanka SDG Fund. 

The report warns that post-conflict contestations over land frequently involve state actors, including the occupying military, as well as government agencies such as the Departments of Archaeology, Wildlife, Forest, and the Mahaweli Authority.