Elizabeth Nissan works as a freelance researcher and writer on human rights, specialising on Sri Lanka. Since working for a number of years as a researcher on South Asia for Amnesty International, she has undertaken work for various organisations including Article 19, the Minority Rights Group, and the Law and Society Trust, Colombo. She is the author of Sri Lanka: A Bitter Harvest (Minority Rights Group, 1996).

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Accord Issue 4: Sri Lanka

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