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We urge that the EU takes serious and effective measures against NSO Group, including the designation of the entity under the EU’s global human rights sanctions regime.

The call to sanction NSO Group comes after credible reports that the company's Pegasus spyware has been repeatedly used by abusive governments to clamp down on peaceful human rights defenders, activists and perceived critics.

Joint NGO letter urging EU targeted sanctions against NSO Group Dear High Representative Borrell, Dear Foreign Ministers of EU member states, We are…

Yes, India is the victor and we are the losers where our very own singing sensation is concerned. While India is capitalising on Yohani de Silva’s mega rise to stardom, with ‘Manike Mage Hithe,’what have our folks done! Absolutely nothing, I would say…up to this point in time. Sri Lanka Tourism should have stepped into […]

BY RAJAN HOOLE (Talk delivered by Dr. Rajan Hoole on 01 October, 2021, at the virtual launch of the book: Muslims in Post-War Sri Lanka: Repression, Resistance and Reform. The keynote address was by Dr Ahmed Shaheed, the UN Special Rapporteur on the freedom of religion or belief, followed by the panellists Prof. Savitri Goonesekera, Dr. Radhika […]

Webinar WEBINAR On January 20, Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46 th President of the United States of America. After four years of Donald Trump’s “America First” approach, it is expected that Biden’s administration will revitalize transatlantic relations with European allies and will work on restoration and improvement of mechanisms of global order. While for the Western liberal democracies it will mark the beginning of “going...