Jan 31,Colombo: The New York-based Human Rights Watch today said that the global concern is mounting over Sri Lanka's worsening human rights record, but action by key international players has been “slow and lacked cohesion”.

“Expressions of concern about the situation in Sri Lanka grew in 2007, but international action on human rights was slow and lacked cohesion,” the group said.

The US government's Millennium Challenge Corporation suspended more than 110 million dollars in aid to Sri Lanka due to concerns over the island's human rights situation, HRW said.

In areas under its control, the LTTE continues to forcibly conscript children and adults, control the media, and suppress freedoms of expression, association and assembly, the group said.