Sri Lanka: Constitutionally entrenched impunity
The State of Human Rights in Sri Lanka 2010: RCT partner organisation Asian Human Rights Commission publishes a new report on the occasion of the Human Rights Day 2010.
In Sri Lanka, the possibility of realizing human rights
continues to become bleaker as the power and authority of the
courts are continuously reduced due to the expansion of the power
of the executive president. The country's constitution itself has
entrenched impunity by way of virtually displacing the separation
of powers principle with the absolute power principle in favor of
the executive.
Read the whole Human Rights Day Statement made by AHRC, December
10, 2010 here
Download the the full "State of Human Rights in
Sri Lanka 2010 report" by AHRC