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Sri Lankas National Child Protection Authority received 108,581 complaints related to child abuse between 2015 and 2025, the Minister of Women and Child Affairs, Saroja Savithri Paulraj, told parliament on Thursday, in figures that underscore the scale of child abuse on the island and the strain it places on the justice system.

She was responding to a question raised by the Leader of the Opposition, Sajith Premadasa, under Standing Order 27/2. The minister said that, as of 30 April this year, 4,421 child abuse cases were pending before the High Co

The Point Pedro Urban Council has resolved to organise a large-scale public demonstration demanding the removal of Sri Lankan military camps within the councils administrative limits, accusing the authorities of failing to act despite similar demands raised a year ago.

The proposal was tabled by Point Pedro Mayor Douglas Paul during the councils monthly sitting on Monday, chaired by the mayor and attended by Council Secretary Chandrasekaram Prasad and the councils 15 elected members.

The mayor recalled that the council had organi

Tamil landowners from Valikamam North staged their weekly protest for the 14th consecutive week on Friday, calling for the release of their lands, which remain occupied

Six Tamil-speaking political parties have requested a meeting with Sri Lankan president Anura Kumara Dissanayake and plan to meet the Leader of the Opposition to discuss matters affecting Tamil-speaking peoples, according to a recent press release.

The announcement follows a meeting of the parties leaders and representatives at the Parliament Complex, where they reaffirmed an earlier decision to work tog

Tamil landowners campaigning for the return of their military-occupied land in Valikamam North entered a sixth consecutive week of demonstrations on Sunday, after Sri Lankan police removed t

Commemorations were held across Jaffna over the weekend to mark 43 years since the Black July pogrom, honouring the thousands of Tamils killed in the anti-Tamil violence of July 1983 and the Tamil political prisoners massacred while in state custody.

Andy Burnham took office this week and appointed around his table a set of ministers whose records on Tamil rights stretch back nearly two decades. The new Foreign Secretary, Ed Miliband, argued as Labour leader that David Cameron should boycott the Colombo Commonwealth summit, writing in this publication that tens of thousands of Tamils had been killed and pledging in 2015 to "continue to push for the full and independent, international investigation" into Sri Lankas crimes. The new Defence Secretary, Wes Streeting, told a Mullivaikkal remembrance gathering that there could be no hiding plac

Sri Lankan goods entering the United States are subject to a 10% import tariff from Friday, after a last-minute regulation on forced labour moved the island out of the higher 12.5% band it had been placed in weeks earlier.

The tariff takes effect under a notice issued by the Office of the United States Trade Representative, which placed 60 trading partners in two bands. Sri Lanka qualified for the lower rate after adopting, partially implementing, or committing to enforce restrictions on imports linked to forced labour. A further 41 economies deemed not

Tamil members of parliament marked the 43rd anniversary of the Black July pogrom in parliament on Thursday, saying that although Sri Lankas political and social structures have undergone many changes over the past four decades, the losses and suffering caused by July 1983 remain an unhealed scar.

In a statement issued to mark the occasion, the MPs said the commemoration was held to remember the victims and to reflect on the lasting impact of the violence, which continues to shape the islands social and political landscape.

Shanakiyan Rasamanicka