Sri Lanka
Since 2005 the conditions of violence and impunity has made life increasingly dangerous for media practitioners in Sri Lanka. In response to this situation, IMS is seeking to help provide rapid response to journalists at risk. In October 2006 and June 2007, IMS coordinated international advocacy and safety missions to Sri Lanka to bring international attention to the situation in the country, as well as to support the national media community.Archive
- Open letter to SG Ban Ki-moon about Prageeth Eknaligoda
- Call for UN to help find missing Sri Lankan journalist
- Where is Prageeth?
- IFJ Sri Lanka Mission Report : "Key challenges for media after war's end" - English version
- Tamil version of IFJ Mission report: "Key challenges for media after war's end"
- Sinhala version of IFJ Sri Lanka mission report: "Key challenges for media after war's end"
- Media abuse debated in Sri Lanka election campaign
- Sri Lankan media in downhill spiral
- Open letter to the President of Sri Lanka
- "A war without witness"
- Sunanda Deshapriya's Speech in Lasantha's memory
- UNESCO speech WPF Prize 2009
- Tissa Statement Intl. Press Mission to Sri lanka, 6 Mar. 2009
- International call for justice for jailed Sri Lankan Journalist
- Press release, 21 January 2009 from the International Press Freedom Mission to Sri Lanka
- Worsening conditions in Sri Lanka
- Media under fire: Press freedom lockdown in Sri Lanka
- Statement of the International Mission to Sri Lanka, 29 Oct. 2008
- Working with IMS - the case of Sri Lanka
- Violence against media in Sri Lanka on the rise
- Jaffna's media in the grip of terror, fact-finding report of International Press Freedom Mission to Sri Lanka, 6 August 2007
- Statement of the International Press Freedom and Freedom of Expression Mission to Sri Lanka, 22 june 2007
- Ampara Eastern Sri Lanka Report, June 2007
- Press Freedom and Freedom of Expression in Sri Lanka: Struggle for survival, 2007
- Mission Statement, International Fact-finding and Advocacy Mission to Sri Lanka, 11 October 2006
- Study of media in the North-east of Sri Lanka, 2003
- Assessment mission on IMS engagement in Sri Lanka in support of the Ceasefire process, June 2002
Call for UN to help find missing Sri Lankan journalist
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More than a year after the disappearance of Prageeth Eknelygoda, a Sri Lankan political columnist and cartoonist, his wife has yet to receive any information about his whereabouts from the Sri Lankan authorities
In an open letter to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, five international media organisations including International Media Support, express their concern for the lack of progress in the investigation of his disappearance and urge the UN to act in accordance with its human rights mandate.
Prageeth Eknelygoda disappeared on January 24, 2010. Since then, his wife, Sandhya Eknelygoda, has been asking the Sri Lankan government for any information about his fate. Prageeth Eknelygoda, a well-known and well-published columnist and cartoonist in the media community, is also reputed for his contribution to the news website Lanka e News, whose premises were burnt to the ground on 31 January 2011. Prageeth Eknelygoda may be the latest victim in the continuingly troubling media situation in Sri Lanka.
Eknelygoda’s disappearance and his wife’s efforts on his behalf have been widely reported in Sri Lankan and international media.
Read the open letter here.
Coverage of the letter in other media here:
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