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Sri Lanka Lawlessness

http://srilanka-lawlessness.com

A weekly blog on the problems of human rights and rule of law in Sri Lanka by Basil Fernando

• Added on: Feb 13th, 2008
• Country: Sri Lanka
• Language: English

• Author: srilanka-lawlessness
• Listed in: Law & Legal Law
• Tags: Sri Lanka human rights torture disappearances killings rule of law

Recent Posts

• Conversations – Sri Lanka: A murder tolerating nation – Part One

  Posted on Sunday December 20th, 2009 at 06:03 in Police, media, Sri Lanka, human rights, corruption, crime, torture, justice, violations, disappearances, rule of law, abductions

  (This is first of a series of conversations on the contemporary situation of Sri Lanka) “The rebels were marked by their anarchic tendencies rather than in trying to fight back against what are evil in society with a view to create a better society...

• The New Lawyer’s Organisation formed

  Posted on Monday December 14th, 2009 at 05:43 in Sri Lanka, supreme court, human rights, corruption, justice, attorney general, rule of law, abductions, civil society, 17th amendment

  The trust in commonly accepted norms and principles and laying these norms and principles by way of commonly accepted laws has been done with the view to prevent the possibility of interference by individuals in tampering with the basic rules of a so...

• Seeking human rights in Sri Lanka is difficult

  Posted on Saturday December 12th, 2009 at 09:30 in politics, Police, Sri Lanka, human rights, corruption, crime, torture, justice, violations, disappearances, rule of law, abductions

  The world Human Rights Day on Thursday passed in Sri Lanka without anything to celebrate in terms of positive achievements in the area of human rights. In fact, looking for human rights in Sri Lanka is becoming increasingly similar to finding water o...

• Reform of a police system rotten at the top

  Posted on Thursday December 10th, 2009 at 10:50 in politics, Police, Sri Lanka, human rights, corruption, crime, torture, justice, violations, disappearances, rule of law, igp

  “Within a rule of law system, the only kind of punishment that is allowed is the punishments that are authorized through the operation of due process, through the orders given by the judiciary itself.” ……………………………………�...

• The Phantom Limb: Failing judicial systems, torture and human rights work in Sri Lanka

  Posted on Friday December 4th, 2009 at 21:24 in politics, Police, Sri Lanka, human rights, corruption, crime, torture, violations, rule of law, civil society

  A Study of Police Torture in Sri Lanka by Morten Koch Andersen and Basil Fernando This study is a result of the cooperation between the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) and the Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT).  The s...

• Dealing with corruption as an issue in the Presidential Campaign

  Posted on Sunday November 29th, 2009 at 19:16 in politics, Police, Sri Lanka, human rights, corruption, justice, civil war, rule of law, election violence, civil society

  “The modern commissions on corruption have developed many methodologies of ensuring effectiveness of their workings. For example, the old commissions, as it exists in Sri Lanka, often get the officers for doing enquiries from the policing service.�...

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