New Reports & Releases

Sivapalan Memorandum	Press Release 04 Jun 09 0.1 MB
Victims of January 17-22 shelling in Vanni	Human Rights Report 18 Feb 09 0.5 MB
Victims of shelling in Vanni Jan 1-16	Human Rights Report 16 Jan 09 0.8 MB
Massacres ofTamils (1956- 2001) ( IN TAMIL)	Human Rights Report 10 Jan 09 4.6 MB
Massacres of Tamils (2002- June 2008) (IN TAMIL)	Human Rights Report 10 Jan 09 1.3 MB
HR Report for December 2008	Human Rights Report 09 Jan 09 0.3 MB
Food for the Vanni people	Human Rights Report 05 Jan 09 0.2 MB
Victims of December boming & shelling	Human Rights Report 31 Dec 08 0.4 MB
HR report for November 2008	Human Rights Report 20 Dec 08 0.2 MB
Extrajudicial executions and the justice system	Human Rights Report 09 Dec 08 0.2 MB
November victims of bombing and shelling	Human Rights Report 05 Dec 08 0.4 MB
Education of IDP Children in Vanni	Human Rights Report 27 Nov 08 0.2 MB

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The only local, independent human rights monitoring body in the NorthEast of Sri Lanka

Background

Over the course of the past two decades, war has devastated the NorthEast of Sri Lanka. Tamils in this area have faced extreme violence and been the victims of appalling human rights abuses. When the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) was put in place, standard law enforcement mechanisms broke down and victims were left without recourse in the face of abuse. In response, community leaders in the NorthEast established citizens' committees to hear complaints and took whatever limited actions they found possible.

As a part of the 2002 peace process, the international community recommended the strengthening of the human rights protection mechanisms in the NorthEast of Sri Lanka. In response, the very community leaders who had been involved in the citizens' committees launched the NorthEast Secretariat On Human Rights (NESOHR) on July 9, 2004, in Kilinochchi, Sri Lanka.