Truth and Accountability

Archive of posts in the 'Truth and Accountability' category

Daniela Gavshon on ABC Lateline

Rule of law in armed conflict / Sri Lankan community in Australia repair old wounds from their country's civil war

Sri Lanka is taking firm but slow steps towards ethnic and national reconciliation and in Australia, home to tens of...

15 Aug 2016

Rule of law in armed conflict / Justice and reconciliation in Sri Lanka: seven years on

This week marks seven years since the end of the decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka in May 2009. Following...

19 May 2016

Asylum Seekers / Submission to Sri Lanka`s Consultation Task Force on Reconciliation Mechanisms

This submission to Sri Lanka’s Consultation Task Force on Reconciliation Mechanisms summarises views expressed by a group of 16 victims...

6 May 2016

Asylum Seekers / The role of documentation in Sri Lanka’s transitional justice process

This submission explains how documentation of evidence is vital in Sri Lanka’s transitional justice process, and the key role that...

6 May 2016

Rule of law in armed conflict / UN resolution paves the way for peace process in Sri Lanka

On 1 October 2015, the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva unanimously adopted a resolution on Sri Lanka, which calls...

2 Oct 2015

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