UN Rights Chief Calls for Sri Lanka's Domestic Rights Accountability Mechanism

The Kilinochchi Peace Gallery: Beyond Official Narratives - Groundviews

Image Courtesy of Sriramachandran Mayutharan In February 2025, I was invited as a professional with international experience in transitional justice to speak at an event in Matara. The organisers asked me to introduce the participants, mostly small scale farmers, fishermen and community leaders, to the concept of war crime and provide examples from the Sri Lankan context. Noticing in the agenda that a virtual call with a Palestinian movement was…

UN Human Rights Chief Voices Strong Support for Sri Lanka’s Reconciliation and Reform Agenda - LNW Lanka News Web

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has expressed full support for the path Sri Lanka is taking under the leadership of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, particularly in the areas of national unity, reconciliation, and the protection of human rights. The High Commissioner made these remarks during a meeting with President Dissanayake at the Presidential Secretariat on Wednesday (June 26), as part of his official visit…

UN rights chief calls for Sri Lanka's domestic rights accountability mechanism

Colombo, Jun 26 (PTI) UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Thursday stressed the need for Sri Lanka's domestic rights accountability mechanism, saying that it can be supported by international means."Sri Lanka has struggled to move forward with domestic accountability mechanisms that are credible and have the trust and confidence of victims," Volker said while addressing reporters at the end of his three-day visit to the island n…

UN rights chief calls for probe into Sri Lanka mass graves

ECONOMYNEXT – United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has visited the site of a mass grave in Sri Lanka and called for impartial investigations. Turk visited the Chemmani mass grave site near Jaffna on Wednesday and met families of disappeared. “The one things that needs to be done is thorough investigations, robust investigations, by independent experts with forensic expertise, who can bring out the truth,” Turk said. “And…

UN Human Rights Chief holds talks with Sri Lankan officials

A delegation from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), led by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, held discussions with a Sri Lankan delegation headed by the Minister of Public Security and Parliamentary Affairs, Ananda Wijayapala, and the Deputy Minister of Defence, Major General (Retd) Aruna Jayasekara, on Tuesday (June 24) at the Deputy Minister’s Office. The OHCHR delega…