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'US to pressure Sri Lanka on reconciliation process' - RNW

[Monday, 06 February 2012 11:34] News, General
The United States is set to table a resolution against Sri Lanka at the next sitting of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva later this month. The Americans have voiced their concerns over human rights violations in Sri Lanka before, but so far had not taken the step of bringing it forward at the HRC. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has mentioned the option of a resolutio... [More]

] Pirapaharan postal stamp released in Norway

[Sunday, 05 February 2012 11:27] News, Misc, Featured
Sunday, 5 February 2012, 0:45 [TamilNet, Saturday, 04 February 2012, 21:52 GMT] Eezham Tamil activists in Norway on Saturday released stamps featuring LTTE leader V. Pirapaharan, the map of Tamil Eelam and some of the LTTE declared national symbols of the de-facto state of Tamil Eelam, including the Tamil Eelam national flag. The stamps were released in front of the Norwegian Parliament by Jeyas... [More]

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

[Saturday, 04 February 2012 18:09] Featured, News
  The Human Rights Council is uniquely positioned to ensure that the deaths and injuries of tens of thousands of civilians in the last months of Sri Lanka’s conflict are properly investigated. The failure of the council to respond to one of the worst episodes of human rights abuse since its creation would only undermine its relevance. Philippe Dam, acting Geneva advocacy director (Ne... [More]

Lawyer works to give Tamils freedom here - TGTE in Action

[Saturday, 04 February 2012 17:42] News, Featured, General, Misc
  Saturday, 4 February 2012, 14:48 http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/lawyer-works-to-give-tamils-freedom-here-138701264.html Displaced Sri Lankan refugees yearn for new home in Winnipeg By: Carol Sanders Posted: 02/4/2012 1:00 AM | Comments: 0 (including replies) Winnipeg's globe-trotting human rights lawyer David Matas is trying to help thousands of Sri Lankan refugees s... [More]

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]

A torture-scarred Sri Lankan and his accomplice have been jailed for a vicious attack on a shopkeeper’s wife in front of their young child

[Saturday, 04 February 2012 11:50] News
  12:10pm Thursday 2nd February 2012 in Over six months, the two men of Sri Lankan origin had began taking goods at will from the owner of Church Mini Market in Church Road, Mitcham, and threatened to kill him if he complained to police. The series of thefts - during which the pair described themselves as “gangsters” - culminated in a violent onslaught against the owner and his family on ... [More]

'US to pressure Sri Lanka on reconciliation process'

[Saturday, 04 February 2012 01:01] News, Featured
NEWS AND ANALYSIS FROM THE NETHERLANDS IN 10 LANGUAGES, WORLDWIDE 24/7 ON RADIO, TV AND ONLINE Radio Netherlands Worldwide Search Map Colombo, Sri Lanka ' Published on : 3 February 2012 - 1:40pm | By Johan van Slooten (Photo by RNW) More about: Human Rights Council LLRC Sri Lanka Sri Lanka Campaign Tamil War Tamils The United States is set to table a resolution ag... [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]

Confrontation Zone: Falkland Islands ?

[Friday, 03 February 2012 17:43] News, Featured
  Written by: VOR February 3, 2012 By Igor Kudrin Thirty years after the Falklands war, Great Britain and Argentine are drifting to yet another standoff over the disputed islands amid heightened political tensions and discovery of oil fields off Falklands coast. British Prime Minister David Cameron has accused Argentine of what he has described as Argentine’s colonization of th... [More]

UN refugee convention is decades out of date?

[Friday, 03 February 2012 13:40] News, Featured
    February 2nd, 2012 tbcuk By Paul Murray One of the nagging problems many – if not most – Australians have with the $1 billion-a-year asylum seeker racket based on clandestine boat trips from Indonesia is knowing the people who arrive are not the world’s most needy refugees. They are just the wealthiest. They can afford to fly half way around the world to Jakarta, br... [More]

WikiLeaks: “looked like” EPDP and SL Navy burnt the Uthayan – Basil to US?

[Friday, 03 February 2012 13:35] News, Featured
  February 3rd, 2012 By Colombo Telegraph - “He added that it ‘looked like’ EPDP cadres, along with the SLN, had perpetrated the mid-August burning of the pro-LTTE Uthayan newspaper office in Jaffna.” the US Embassy Colombo informed Washington. Douglas and Basil The Colombo Telegraph found the related leaked cable from the WikiLeaks database. The cable is classified as “C... [More]

INSIDE STORY: Rajiv Gandhi assassination case and the Special Investigation Team ( Part 2 )

[Friday, 03 February 2012 13:26] News, Featured
  February 2nd, 2012 | by L.Annadoure ( February 02, Chennai, Sri Lanka Guardian) The Head of Special Investigation Team, Mr.Karthikeyan would thank a top official in Tamil Nadu Forensic Science Laboratory for having sent the sealed negatives to Hindu News paper on the next morning and this is what he had stated in his book, ‘ there were a total of ten pictures. Yet the next mornin... [More]

War Criminal as an Advisor to UN Secretary General?

[Friday, 03 February 2012 13:19] News, Featured, General
  February 2nd, 2012 | A statement issued by the Australasian Federation of Tamil Associations The Australasian Federation of Tamil Associations (AFTA), the umbrella body of the peak Tamil associations in Australia and New Zealand, is appalled by the news that Major General Shavendra Silva, Sri Lanka’s deputy ambassador to the UN, will be part of a group advising Secretary General Ban Ki-... [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]

President relates gleefully how he took India for a ride: 'There is no 13 plus I know of' he says?

[Friday, 03 February 2012 12:06] News, Featured
  (Lanka-e-News-01.Jan.2012, 11.45PM) President Mahinda Rajapakse who promised to the Indian foreign Minister Krishnan on the 17th January that he would provide a 13 plus solution to the Sri Lanka East –North issue had announced the very following day that he took India for a ride. The President had given this as an answer to questions posed by the Ministers about Krishnan’s statement ,... [More]

The Daily Campus>Focus - Bad girl, broke child?

[Friday, 03 February 2012 11:56] News, Misc, Featured
  By Purbita Saha Focus Editor Published: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 Updated: Thursday, February 2, 2012 00:0 "Don't go screaming if I blow you with a bang." The world's favorite high-top wearing, machine-gun toting female singer is back with a new single and soon-to-be released music video. Can we get a hip, hip, M.I.A.? Maya Arulpragasam has way more on her resume than ju... [More]

DNA Turning Human Story Into a Tell-All

[Friday, 03 February 2012 11:45] News, Featured, Misc
  By The tip of a girl’s 40,000-year-old pinky finger found in a cold Siberian cave, paired with faster and cheaper genetic sequencing technology, is helping scientists draw a surprisingly complex new picture of human origins. Enlarge This Image Johannes Krause EARLY LAIR A view above the Denisova cave, where clues to prehistoric interbreeding were found. Faster technology is aiding... [More]

G.L Peris in Cameroon

[Friday, 03 February 2012 11:37] News, General, Featured
Friday, 3 February 2012, 0:20 The new thrust in Sri Lanka’s foreign policy, giving greater weight to relations with countries in the African continent and enhancing mutual benefit from this focus, is exceedingly welcome, said Prime Minister Philemon Yang of Cameroon when he met with Professor G.L.Peiris, Minister of External Affairs on Monday. Minister Peiris, who was on a two day off... [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]

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