Canada's and the UK's Leadership Amid Evolving International Dynamics Introduction The 60th regular session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), scheduled from 8 September to 3 October 2025, represents a pivotal moment in international engagement with the issue of accountability, reconciliation, and human rights in post-conflict Sri Lanka. This year's context departs sharply from previous sessions: Canada and the United Kingdom (UK) are set to take a leading role as co-sponsors of a new resolution to extend the mandate of the Sri Lanka Accountability Project and continue international monitoring and advocacy. The United States (US), a familiar presence and co-sponsor in earlier years, has withdrawn from the Council and will not participate, altering both the geopolitical balance and the composition of the so-called "core group" on Sri Lanka. Malawi, Montenegro, and North Macedonia—previously part of this group—are also not joining the 2025 ...

Silenced Voices, Shattered Freedoms: The Enduring Harassment and Oppression of Tamil Journalists in Sri Lanka (2009–2025)   A Comprehensive Analysis of the Harassment, Intimidation, Threats, and Systematic Rights Violations Faced by Tamil Journalists under Sri Lankan State and Security Apparatus Since the End of the armed conflict. Edited By: Wimal Navaratnam-ABC Tamil Oli 1           Introduction Over fifteen years since the formal end of Sri Lanka’s brutal civil war, the country’s Tamil journalists have remained at the frontlines of risk, their profession marked by unprecedented harassment, legal persecution, intimidation, assaults, disappearances, and killings. Instead of a new dawn of reconciliation and press freedom, the experiences of Tamil journalists in the post-2009 era have reflected persistent state oppression, entrenched impunity for abuses, and a climate where press freedoms, particularly for those reporting on m...