Mandate
As a non-profit educational institution attached to the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, CSHR’s mandate is to conduct and facilitate human rights education and research programmes for the university and the community at large.
Vision
To be a center of excellence for creating a nation with a rights consciousness in which the dignity and rights of all people are respected.
Mission
“To foster human rights education, research, capacity building, and knowledge services using a multidisciplinary approach”

Inauguration – Master of Human Rights and Democratization (Local Programme) 2023/24
The Master of Human Rights and Democratisation (MHRD) Program for the academic year 2023/2024 was inaugurated on September 20, 2023, on Zoom Video Conferencing Platform. The event began with a welcome address from Mr M A M Hakeem, Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights. Followed by Professor (Chair) Wasantha Seneviratne, the […]

Enhancing Legal Awareness of Public and Justice Stakeholders – Orientation Program for Field based Staff
The orientation program to engage in community legal education and advice for the most vulnerable across the 25 districts of Sri Lanka for newly recruited young lawyers & law students offered by the Centre for the Study of Human Rights (CSHR), Faculty of Law, University of Colombo was held on July 22 & 23, 2023, […]

Panel Discussion on “REFLECTIONS ON THE NEXUS BETWEEN LANGUAGE RIGHTS AND GENDER EQUALITY AND WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT: PERSPECTIVES FROM SRI LANKA”
කොළඹ විශ්වවිද්යාලයේ මානව හිමිකම් අධ්යයන කේන්ද්රය විසින් භාෂා අයිතිවාසිකම්, ස්ත්රී පුරුෂ සමාජභාවිය සමානාත්මතාව සහ කාන්තා සවිබල ගනිවිම අතර සබැඳියාව පිලිබඳ අන්තරාවලෝකනයක් : ශ්රී ලංකාවෙන් පර්යාවලෝකයකි, යන මැයින් සාකච්ඡා සභාවක් 2023 ජූලි මස 05 වන දින කොළඹ විශ්ව විද්යාලීය නීති පීඨ රැස්වීම් ශාලාවේදී මෙන්ම සූම් තාක්ෂණය හරහා ද පැවැත්විණි. රාජ්ය පරිපාලන, ස්වදේශ කටයුතු පළාත් සභා හා […]
