Today’s vote by the Human Rights Council highlights the lack of progress towards addressing Sri Lanka's culture of impunity. The resolution calls on the government to conduct an independent and credible investigation into human rights violations committed during Sri Lanka’s civil war.

"There needs to be an independent and credible international investigation into alleged violations of human rights in Sri Lanka."

Writing in The Times, Mary Robinson and Desmond Tutu warn that without pressure from the Human Rights Council and the Commonwealth, the human tragedies of Sri Lanka’s civil war will not be accounted for.

Writing in The Guardian as the UN Human Rights Council session opens in Geneva, Archbishop Tutu and Mary Robinson say it is not just Sri Lanka's people that the Council must serve this week, but the cause of international law.

Reflecting in The Guardian on the one-year anniversary of the end of the Sri Lankan conflict, Desmond Tutu and Lakhdar Brahimi caution that genuine peace is more than simply the absence of fighting.

Commenting in The Jakarta Post, Lakhdar Brahimi and Edward Mortimer reflect on the end to the conflict in Sri Lanka and examine the conditions which must be fulfilled before the country can move towards a sustained peace.

Lakhdar Brahimi assesses the humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka and argues that the international community must not stand by idly while an estimated 150,000 civilians are trapped in a death zone. This article first appeared in The International Herald Tribune.