Human Rights Watch Article RatingSri Lanka: Police Abuses Surge Amid Covid-19 Pandemic
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
56% : UN agencies should ensure that any engagement with Sri Lankan security forces complies with the "human rights due diligence policy on United Nations support to non-United Nations security forces" and the UN common position on drug policy.42% : The UN high commissioner for human rights, Michelle Bachelet, in her report to the UN Human Rights Council in January, wrote that she was "concerned by a recent series of deaths in police custody and in the context of police encounters with alleged criminal gangs" amid a "militarized approach to law and order and drug control."
30% : "Until that happens, international partners should be under no illusions about human rights in Sri Lanka, and they should withhold assistance to abusive law enforcement agencies.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.