Canada has asked Sri Lanka to start talks and the reconciliation process with the Tamil groups, saying such a step is crucial for lasting peace in the country.

The Sri Lankan government is conducting a carefully coordinated witch hunt aimed at discrediting critics of the government - Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Wat...

The United Nations says that nearly a hundred thousand ineternally displaced people (IDPs) are still accommodated in temporary camps.

Refugee advocates have staged a rally in the eastern Australian city of Sydney to mark 150 days since a boat load of asylum seekers moored in Indonesia.

A heap of ruins where a Hindu temple of Chola period was believed to have been buried has been unearthed in the Northern part of Delft.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Monday (8 March 2010) expressed concerns about the lack of progress on political reconciliation, the treatment of internally displaced perso...