US EditionSri Lanka's Conflict Related Sexual Violence Against Tamils Remains Unaddressed: UN Report
The UN report highlights ongoing impunity and legal gaps that prevent justice for survivors, with sexual violence used as a tactic by security forces against Tamil civilians, officials said.
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Sri Lanka: UN Finds Systemic Sexual Violence During Civil War
Click to expand Image Families mourn victims of Sri Lanka’s 1983-2009 civil war on the beach at Mullivaikal where the final battle took place, May 17, 2024. © 2024 Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo (Geneva) – A new United Nations report about sexual violence related to Sri Lanka’s civil war is another step forward in the struggle for accountability for crimes under international law that were committed in Sri Lanka, Human Rights Watch said today. The…
Sri Lanka's conflict related sexual violence against Tamils remains unaddressed: UN report
The report said that during the civil war, sexual violence was widely used, primarily by State security forces actors, as a method of intimidation, punishment, and control over conflict-affected populations
When the War Ended, Impunity Did Not
Questioning the Answers More than sixteen years after Sri Lanka declared its civil war over, the country is still unwilling to confront one of its most corrosive legacies: the systematic use of sexual violence during and after the conflict—and the enduring architecture of impunity that followed it. A recent report by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rightsdoes not introduce new allegations. What it does—quietly, metho…
The report concludes that persistent impunity for wartime atrocities continues to mark the lives of survivors, many of whom suffer lasting physical injuries, psychological trauma, and social exclusion. Titled “We have lost everything – even hope for justice,” the report draws on more than ten years of […]
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The European Sting - Critical News & Insights on European Politics, Economy, Foreign Affairs, Busine‘A torture that never stops’: Sri Lanka failing survivors of conflict sexual violence, UN says
Conflict-related sexual violence in Sri Lanka remains largely unaddressed more than 15 years after the end of the civil war, with survivors still denied justice, recognition and reparations, according to a new report by the UN human rights office, OHCHR, on Tuesday.
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