HRW asks Sri Lanka to ‘protect’ voters and ensure safe elections

Sri Lankan authorities must ensure that voters can travel safely and securely to polling booths and back during the parliamentary elections on Monday, Human Rights Watch said on Saturday after reports of campaign anomalies. MORE..

August 16, 2015  05:59 pm|

New army chief a blow to justice, says HRW

Sri Lanka‘s promotion of a senior officer whose division was implicated in serious human rights abuses casts doubt on government pledges to credibly investigate alleged war crimes, Human Rights Watch said today (17). MORE...

May 17, 2015  01:51 pm|

Rights group says SL workers abused at Abu Dhabi worksites

Human Rights Watch on Tuesday accused an Abu Dhabi company building local branches of the Louvre and Guggenheim museums of mistreating its migrant workers from Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal, despite some improvements five years after the group first raised concerns. MORE...

February 11, 2015  11:03 am|