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Nobel Peace Prize Nomination: UK and Australian MPs support Channel 4 ‘Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields’ Documentary Team

[Saturday, 04 February 2012 12:13] News, Misc, HR Articles, General, Featured, Forthcoming Events
Press Statement: For immediate release I join my Australian colleague, Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon, in releasing the joint submission we made to the Norwegian Nobel Committee nominating the team at ITN and Channel 4 that produced the documentary film ‘Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields’ for the 2012 Nobel peace Prize. As Sri Lanka remembers on February 4 its independence from Britain in 1948, it remai... [More]

Letter on Sri Lanka to Permanent Representatives of Human Rights Council Member and Observer States

[Saturday, 04 February 2012 00:30] News, HR Articles, General, Featured
  Call for action at the UN Human Rights Council on accountability for war time abuses in Sri Lanka February 2, 2012 You Excellency, We write to urge your delegation to work with other member and observer states of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) to bring the issue of accountability for wartime abuses in Sri Lanka onto the agenda of the Council during its March 2012 sessio... [More]

Ethiopia: Future of last remaining human rights monitoring NGO in the balance

[Friday, 03 February 2012 12:43] News, Featured, General, HR Articles
Enter your keywords: Search all languages Latest News © 2010 Human Rights Watch Ethiopia: Future of last remaining human rights monitoring NGO in the balance Feb 1, 2012 On February 3, 2012, the Cassation Bench of the Federal Supreme Court of Ethiopia will hear a petition by the Human Rights Council (HRCO), Ethiopia’s oldest huma... [More]

Alleged War Criminal as an Advisor to UN Secretary General?

[Friday, 03 February 2012 11:32] News, Misc, HR Articles, Genocide, Featured
Friday February 3, 2012 Feb-01-2012 15:54 Salem-News.com AFTA appeals to the media to initiate a campaign to prevent a bad precedent being set in the UN System. Major General Shavendra Silva (STANHOPE GARDENS, NSW Aust.) - The Australasian Federation of Tamil Associations (AFTA), the umbrella body of the peak Tamil associations in Australia and New Zealand, is appal... [More]

How Two South Asian Literary Festivals Are Defining the Role of the Writer?

[Friday, 03 February 2012 11:22] News, Misc, Genocide, Forthcoming Events, Featured, HR Articles
  The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil; but by those who watch them without doing anything. - Albert Einstein --- On Thu, 2/2/12, Sandy Vadi Deji Olukotun is the Freedom to Write Fellow at the PEN American Center. Contact: http://pen.org/page.php/prmID/579 Three years later, the majority Sinhala government has consolidated its power and no one ha... [More]

SRI LANKA: Officers of the Thalathuoya Police Station beat and filed a fabricated charge against a soldier who rescued his friend from their assault

[Friday, 03 February 2012 10:39] HR Articles
Thursday, 26 January 2012, 8:13 This message contains blocked images. Show ImagesOptions You are receiving this email because you are subscribed to one or more e-mailing lists from the Asian Human Rights Commission or the Asian Legal Resource Centre. If you do NOT wish to receive further material from us, please click this link to unsubscribe or this link to change your preferences. ASIAN... [More]

: Conviction under the Torture Act

[Friday, 03 February 2012 03:41] Featured, News, HR Articles
AHRC-FST-005-2012 January 30, 2012 A Statement from Janasansadaya forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) SRI LANKA: Conviction under the Torture Act On January 26, 2012, the former OIC of Polpithigama Police was convicted under the torture Act by the High Court of Kurunegala. Wijeratne, the former OIC of Polpithigama Police Station, was sentenced to two years ... [More]

SRI LANKA: Innocent man was illegally arrested, tortured and laid with fabricated chargers

[Thursday, 02 February 2012 16:24] HR Articles
ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION-URGENT APPEAL PROGRAMME Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-014-2012 2 February 2012 ------------------------------------------------------ SRI LANKA: Innocent man was illegally arrested, tortured and laid with fabricated chargers ISSUES: Illegal arrest; arbitrary detention; torture; impunity; rule of law ---------------------------------------... [More]

A faltering US could signal a dangerously unstable world?

[Thursday, 02 February 2012 12:36] News, Misc, HR Articles, General, Forthcoming Events, Featured
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 11:30:57 +0000 A faltering US could signal a dangerously unstable world Friday, 27 January 2012 22:59 By Zbigniew Brzezinski Not so long ago, a high-ranking Chinese official, who obviously had concluded that America’s decline and China’s rise were both inevitable, noted in a burst of candour to a senior US official: “But, please, let America not decline too quickly.... [More]

WikiLeaks: “STF murdered Trinco students” Basil to US

[Thursday, 02 February 2012 12:01] News, Human Rights Articles, HR Articles, Genocide, Featured
  Published On: Wed, Feb 1st, 2012 By eelamaran   “We know the STF did it, but the bullet and gun evidence shows that they did not. They must have separate guns when they want to kill some one. We need forensic experts. We know who did it, but we can’t proceed in prosecuting them.” President’s advisor and his brother Basil Rajapaksa told US Ambassador Robert O.Blake. Basil – Th... [More]

LLRC Report on Sri Lanka's War: Pride, Prejudice and Paradise 5

[Wednesday, 01 February 2012 11:37] Featured, General, HR Articles, News, Misc
Tuesday, 31 January 2012, 23:36 LLRC Report on Sri Lanka’s War: Pride, Prejudice and Paradise 17:08 GMT, January 31, 2012 The Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) has recently released the much-criticized report of the Commission of Inquiry on Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation (LLRC). The report came in the midst of international pressure on the GoSL for its alleged war crimes and human right... [More]

“This Speaks A Lot About You” An Open Letter To H.E. The President

[Tuesday, 31 January 2012 14:58] News, Misc, HR Articles, General, Featured
  At the same time it is pointless and unrealistic to deny that the Tamil people have grievances. (emphasis added) The articulation of grievances by the Tamil people continues to remain at the centre of the Sinhala – Tamil relationship and need to be recognized and addressed directly and fairly as the first step in the post conflict process of reconciliation and peaceful co-existence…….” (8.... [More]

‘In ravaged times, poets become the voice of the voiceless’ – Tamil Poet Cheran

[Monday, 30 January 2012 09:06] Featured, News, HR Articles
  Published On: Sun, Jan 29th, 2012 By eelamaran   R.Cheran is a Sri Lankan Tamil poet and academician, born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. He published his first collection of poems Irandaavathu Suriya Uthayam (The Second Sunrise) in 1982. His other titles include Yaman (God of Death) (1984), together with an anthology of Tamil resistance poems, Maranatthul Vaalvom (Amidst Death, We Liv... [More]

Sri Lanka: No Progress on Justice

[Sunday, 29 January 2012 06:13] News, Featured, HR Articles
  By eelamaran Further Repression of Media, Civil Society, Minorities A member of the Free Media Association shouts slogans in front of an image of missing cartoonist and columnist Prageeth Eknaligoda during a protest in Colombo June 8, 2011. The protest was held to mark 500 days since the disappearance of Eknaligoda, a pro-opposition journalist who worked for Lanka-e-News, a priva... [More]

HR Groups Condemn Proposed Appointment of Alleged War Criminal Silva

[Sunday, 29 January 2012 06:09] Featured, News, HR Articles
  Published On: Sat, Jan 28th, 2012 By eelamaran   Sri Lankan and international news outlets have reported that Shavendra Silva—a former military general in the Sri Lankan army who stands accused of war crimes and torture—has been selected for a position in U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Special Advisory Group on Peacekeeping Operations. This appointment is outrageous on ... [More]

Abu Qatada decision causes alarm - to rights activists

[Saturday, 28 January 2012 16:17] HR Articles, General, Featured
  By Frances Webber 26 January 2012, 2:00pm As the prime minister derides the European Court of Human Rights as a 'small claims court', it isn't just the anti-human rights brigade who are worried by its recent judgment. 'Once again, he has made fools of us', announced the Telegraph,[1] in response to the Strasbourg court's ruling that Omar Othman, aka Abu Qatada, the 'radical Muslim cleri... [More]

Diario La Tarde editado por El Oeste Argentino, Entidad Periodistica Independiente.

[Friday, 27 January 2012 15:39] Featured, General, HR Articles
  Orzali 1173 (O) Cdad. de Rawson, San Juan, Arg. - Tel. 0264-4284213 - Director Hugo N. Vazquez, periodista, Mat.Prof. 456096 - E-mail: diario_latarde@yahoo.com.ar Diario La Tarde adherido a: Agencia Hispana de Noticias (AHN); Asociación Noticiosa Latino Americana (ANLA) y agencia TELAM S.E Columnista Juan Manuel Velazquez (Corresponsal DLT. Inglaterra) Especial para diario La ... [More]

Kurdish civilians killed in ‘Sri Lanka style’ attack? read below!

[Friday, 27 January 2012 06:43] News, Misc, HR Articles, Genocide, General, Forthcoming Events, Featured
Reports [TamilNet, Saturday, 31 December 2011, 07:26 GMT] In a deadly strike that was carried out in Uludere of Sirnak province in Turkey’s Southeast region on Wednesday, Turkish F16’s killed at least 36 Kurdish civilians. While the ruling party AKP’s spokesperson called the attack an ‘operational mistake’ and the government has claimed that there will be investigations in to the matter, the ... [More]

கனடியப் பிரதமருக்கு கனடியத் தமிழர்கள் சார்பில் உளமார்ந்த நன்றிகள் - கனடியத் தமிழ்க் காங்கிரஸ்

[Friday, 27 January 2012 06:11] News, HR Articles, General, Featured
  [ வியாழக்கிழமை, 26 சனவரி 2012, 06:16.35 PM GMT ] இலங்கை விவகாரத்தில் மற்றயை நாடுகள் அனைத்திற்கும் முன்மாதிரியாக நடந்த கனடியப் பிரதமருக்கும், வெளிவிவகார அமைச்சருக்கும் கனடியத் தமிழர்கள் சார்பிலான நன்றியறிதலை இந்த வார ஆரம்பத்தில் இடம்பெற்ற பொங்கல்விழாவில் வைத்துத் கனடியத் தமிழ்க் காங்கிரஸின் தலைவர் உமாசுதன் தெரிவித்தார். மேற்படி விழாவில் கலந்து கொண்ட கண்சவேட்டிவ் பாராளுமன்ற உறுப்பினர்களி... [More]

WikiLeaks: Rajapaksas use “Lion Cubs” group to abductions and dispose Tamil civilians bodies at sea

[Friday, 27 January 2012 05:59] News, HR Articles, General, Featured
  Published On: Thu, Jan 26th, 2012   “Samaraweera confirmed for the first time that special cells have been established within military intelligence to abduct LTTE sympathizers.” the US Embassy Colombo informed Washington. “Samaraweera confirmed that the Government uses a group called the “Lion Cubs” to engage in these extrajudicial activities. It is widely rumored in Sri Lanka tha... [More]

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