Cash-strapped Sri Lanka began a fresh austerity drive as the country aims to reduce its expenses and secure the IMF bailout. Now Colombo has temporarily frozen all government recruitments as new taxes and high electricity prices kicked in this week.

Sri Lanka works towards securing IMF bailout, freezes recruitment in fresh austerity drive

The critical resolution against Sri Lanka's human rights policies which was adopted by the UNHRC will take immediate effect with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights beginning the process to closely monitor the country, according to a media report on Wednesday.

UN begins monitoring Sri Lanka after adverse resolution at rights body: Report

Sri Lanka on Tuesday rejected a UN move to preserve evidence of war crimes in the country and said the money allocated for the effort would be better spent on housing for the poor.

Sri Lanka rejects UN move to protect war crimes evidence

UN human rights boss Michelle Bachelet was given a mandate on Tuesday to collect and preserve information and evidence of crimes related to Sri Lanka's long civil war, which ended in 2009 with the defeat of the separatist Tamil Tigers.

UN rights office gets mandate to document Sri Lanka war crimes

The UN Human Rights Council on Thursday approved giving Sri Lanka two more years to set up a credible war crimes investigation into the island nation's brutal civil war.

United Nations rights body grants Sri Lanka war crimes probe extension

'A number of serious human rights violations... are reportedly continuing to occur in Sri Lanka,' it said in a statement

Sri Lankan security forces still committing rape, torture: UN

The Lankan government was asked by UNHRC to probe war crimes, pay compensation to families of victims in an ethnic war spanning 37 years

Sri Lanka asks Donald Trump to help drop war crime charges at UN