Human Rights

No committee had been appointed to go into the question of burying or cremating the COVID dead

When mass protests erupted in Louisville, Kentucky, on May 28, one of Chanelle Helm’s biggest worries was for the young people who took to the streets.

They are being slammed for publishing the claims of the Ahmadiya community which mainstream Muslims consider heretical.

"Sri Lanka’s concept of human rights gives top priority to socio-economic group rights like the right to education, livelihood, health, housing and security. If any or all of these five goals find inclusion in an aid offer, we will have no hesitation in allowing it,” the source said.

Geo-political factors and national interests lay at the root of global indifference

The ICCPR Act has been used selectively as a tool to curb freedom of expression and silence critics and not to curb activities which are patently inflammatory, Satkunananthan points out.

Sri Lanka gives up plan to bury Muslim COVID dead in the Maldives

Lanka should base its case on International Humanitarian Law as it applies to a conflict with a group like the LTTE and thus legitimize its conduct and close the accountability issue, says Neville Ladduwahettfy d

“The acceptance could come soon, say, in a week or so,” Hilmy Ahamed, Vice President of the Muslim Council of Sri Lanka, said.

Muslims want to be buried in Sri Lanka and some Maldivians wonder if there is enough space in their tiny country.