The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet called on Sri Lanka to “focus on deeper institutional reforms” as she cited the country as an example of regions where economic crises have impacted on human rights.

The Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), David Beasley, plans to visit Sri Lanka upon receiving an invitation from Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, as the crisis on the island worsens.

According to Wickremesinghe, due to its economic crisis, Sri Lanka will soon face a food shortage. Experts have warned that essential food items will be in short supply come September this year. 

The Sri Lankan navy has detained 38 people, including several children, off the coast of Amparai this week, claiming that they were attempting to flee the island. 

According to the Navy media unit, the detainees comprise 26 men, 5 women, and 7 children. The migrants are residents of the Jaffna, Vavuniya, Valachchenai, Chilaw, Kalpitiya, Udappuwa, Ja-Ela and Negombo regions. 

Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister admitted his cash-strapped government will look to Moscow for oil, as an economic crisis in the country has left the island facing a dire fuel shortage.

Following the release of a new documentary on Tamil politician and human rights activist Ananthy Sasitharan on Al Jazeera Witness last week, she spoke and on how only an international mechanism can deliver justice for enforced disappearances in Sri Lanka and detailed the struggle that she has been through in her journey so far.

Sri Lanka’s new Commander of the Army said that the military is prepared for an “agricultural revolution” as he met with senior Sinhala Buddhist monks who called for troops to be more “involved in the cultivation process” as militarisation continues on the island.

During a visit to Kandy Lieutenant General Vikum Liyanage met with the Maha Sangha, where according to an official army website, he made several offerings to the monks.

As the world's LGBTQ+ communities commemorate and celebrate Pride month, Jaffna Pride's annual Rainbow Pride Walk took place last weekend. 

Local Tamils and politicians blocked an attempt by Sinhala Buddhist monks and the Sri Lankan army to install a Buddha statue on a native Tamil temple site. 

Sinhala Buddhist monks and the Sri Lankan army had planned a Buddhist dedication ceremony to consecrate a Buddha statue at the site of a native Tamil temple despite an order by Mullaitivu Magistrate's Court decreeing that no changes could be made to the site.

Three Tamil National People's Front (TNPF) members have been arrested today as they protested against a landgrab of a native Tamil temple in Kurunthurmalai, Mullaitivu.

A dedication ceremony for a new Buddha statue is set to take place tomorrow with the assistance of the Sri Lankan army in Kurunthurmalai, Mullaitivu, in a further attempt to seize the site of an ancient Tamil temple.

The ceremony, where a Buddha statue carved in Kabok stone be consecrated, is expected to attract a large number of Sinhalese from the South, including senior Sri Lankan army officers, police officers and Buddhist monks.