Harindrini Corea

youtu.be/VKYyudDx2CU?si… Amnesty International sounds alarm on a watershed moment for international law amid flagrant rule-breaking by governments & corporate actors amnesty.org/en/latest/news… #humanrights #protecttheprotest

Highlights from 145th session of Human Rights Committee include focus on General Comment No. 38 relating to freedom of association & Adoption of Follow-up report on Views. #ICCPR ccprcentre.org/ccprpages/over…

Marking #InternationalWomensDay and 9 years (3,287 days) of continuous protest, the Mullaitivu District Association for Relatives of the Enforced Disappeared staged a demonstration at the symbolic wartime site of Vadduvagal Bridge. Families renewed their call for truth, justice and accountability for loved ones who were forcibly disappeared in 2009. #DisappearedTamils #Vadduvagal

The findings of the analysis of these 9 countries indicate that the #freedomofassociation is increasingly restricted and violated in various ways in all countries and that this issue is at the core of shrinking civic space ccprcentre.org/ccprpages/free…

Final reports of analysis of #Indonesia & #SriLanka will be published soon by CCPR & its project partners, together with reports from 7 other countries in MENA, Latin America & Africa.

In light of recent announcement of UN Human Rights Committee to develop new General Comment No.38 on Article 22 of ICCPR it is interesting to note the findings of @CCPR_Centre on #freedomofassociation in Indonesia & Sri Lanka as part of Our Rights Our Future project

Jaffna | August 30 On the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, the Association for Relatives of the Enforced Disappearances – North and East organized a protest march in Jaffna. Families called for international justice and accountability over Tamil genocide, enforced disappearances, and mass graves. #IDVED2025 #DisappearedTamils #ChemmaniMassGrave

ccprcentre.org/ccprpages/the-… Looking forward to kicking off of “Our Rights, Our Future!” which aims to enhance capacity of youth civil society actors–particularly those representing marginalised groups–& enhance use of UN Human Rights mechanisms in nine countries including Sri Lanka

youtu.be/VKYyudDx2CU?si… Amnesty International sounds alarm on a watershed moment for international law amid flagrant rule-breaking by governments & corporate actors amnesty.org/en/latest/news… #humanrights #protecttheprotest

NEW report: Interviews & open source investigation reveal pattern of unlawful use of tear gas, water cannon & batons by Sri Lankan authorities in 2022 & 2023 in contravention of intl standards & guidelines. @Marien__R @ThyagiR @amnestysasia #SriLanka #protecttheprotest

🚨 Historic first in Sri Lanka: Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe has been arrested — marking the first time a former head of state has ever been taken into custody.

#SriLanka: CPJ strongly condemns the interrogation of journalist Kanapathipillai Kumanan by Sri Lanka's counterterrorism police. No journalist should be targeted for doing their work. #JournalismIsNotACrime #PressFreedom

UPDATE: After being interrogated for over 7 hours about his journalistic work by the police counter- terrorism officers, journalist @kumanan93 left Alampil CTID station with his lawyer Nadarajar Kandeepan, a short while ago.

Within the first five months of 2025, Sri Lanka has made 49 arrests under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) mainly from Tamil and Muslim communities despite pledges by the Government to repeal the PTA, says the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in his latest report.

Chemmani Mass Grave Excavation Phase 2, Day 26 Jaffna, July 31 Three more human skeletons were uncovered today, bringing the total number found so far to 118. Of those, 105 have been fully exhumed. Ground scanning at the site is now set to begin on August 3 and 4. #Chemmanimassgarve

The bottle with a teat found at Sri Lanka’s third largest mass grave in Chemmani has been confirmed today as a baby feeding bottle. Lawyer VS Niranjan says it is now under the custody of courts. 81 bodies have been excavated out of the 90 found so far.

Remembering Black July 1983 The 1983 anti-Tamil pogroms in Sri Lanka, commonly referred to as Black July, were a brutal state-sponsored genocide lasting from July 23rd to July 30th. Sinhala mobs across the island attacked, raped, and murdered Tamil people and children in their shops, homes, and at the hospitals. The Sri Lankan government aided Sinhala mobs with voter lists, addresses of Tamil homes, and transportation, which resulted in the killing of over 3,000 Tamil civilians, the destruction of about 5,000 Tamil-owned businesses, and the destruction of around 18,000 homes. The violence triggered a mass exodus where between 90,000 and 150,000 Tamils were displaced, with more than 500,000 Tamils fleeing the island.

Under pouring skies, Baloch mothers and sisters sit on the roads of Islamabad, clutching only photos of their loved ones. No shelter, no justice, no answers. Just pain, sorrow, and unyielding injustice. How long will their voices echo unheard? #ReleaseBYCLeaders #FreeDrMahrangBaloch

Malaiyaha Tamil women working in Sri Lanka's tea plantations face systemic exploitation rooted in gender and ethnic discrimination. Required to pluck 18-22 kilograms of tea leaves daily to earn a basic wage of 1350 rupees, many women work longer hours than men for the same pay, with wages deducted if targets aren't met. Living in substandard line room accommodations, they endure inhumane conditions while lacking access to justice and remedies. Some workers even avoid bathroom breaks to meet impossible quotas - a stark reminder of how contemporary forms of slavery persist, disproportionately affecting women and girls who face multiple layers of discrimination based on gender and ethnicity. 1/3

HRCSrilanka urges UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances to recommend Sri Lanka to ‘Consider becoming a party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which designates widespread and systematic enforced disappearance as a crime against humanity'. @UNTreatyBodies

🧵 Why is it important to defend international justice this #InternationalJusticeDay? Because international justice protects us all, and you never know when you might need it 👇

Chemmani Mass Grave Exhumation — Phase 2: Day 8 The process took place under the supervision of Jaffna Magistrate A.A. Anandarajah, with the participation of Professor Raj Somadeva from the Department of Archaeology and Judicial Medical Officer Selliah Pranavan. A total of 34 complete human skeletons have been exhumed so far. 06 more human skeletons have also been identified, among which two are suspected to be the remains of children. #chemmanimassgrave

A blood-stained school uniform hung on barbed wire at today’s “Anaiya Vilakku” (Imperishable Lamp) protest — an evocative art installation demanding international justice for the Chemmani mass graves. The display memorializes schoolgirl Krishanthi Kumaraswamy, who was brutally raped and killed by Sri Lankan Army soldiers in 1996. Her body, along with those of her mother, brother, and neighbor who went searching for her, was secretly buried at the Chemmani site. #Chemmanimassgrave