Sri Lanka, Jan. 13 -- A paper published by the UN Human Rights Office this morning highlights that conflict-related sexual violence in Sri Lanka remains largely unaddressed, with survivors, both men and women, still being denied long-overdue justice.

Titled "We lost everything - even hope for justice", the Brief is based on a decade of monitoring and reporting by the UN Human Rights Office, and extensive consultations with survivors, local experts on gender-based violence, civil society and others.

It concludes that the Government of Sri Lanka must urgently follow through on its commitment to advance domestic accountability and undertake transformative reforms, with specific attention to this issue.

The document finds that the lack of ...