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IIGEP  International Independent Group of Eminent Persons FOR RELEASE ON 30 April 2008 Colombo, 30 April 2008 Contact: IIGEP Public Information Office Colombo Hilton Residence, Suite 705 No. 200, Union Place, Colombo 02, Sri Lanka Tel: +94 (0)11 230030618/9 Email: iipgep@iigep.org PRESS RELEASE The Members of IIGEP Stand  The Government of Sri Lanka has proclaimed that […]

Dear friends, Greetings from the PVCHR and the EU-FNST-PWTN National Project on Prevention of Torture, Uttar Pradesh state The EU-FNST-Peoples’ Watch Tamil Nadu (PWTN) National Project of Preventing Torture in India and the Peoples’ Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) carried out a study and documentation of more than 800 cases of police torture in […]

The Global Health Council on 22 April 2008 announced that Dr. Binayak Sen of Chhattisgarh, India is conferred with the 2008 Jonathan Mann Award for . The Global Health Council www.globalhealth.org is the world’s largest membership alliance of public health organisations and professionals working to improve health and save lives among the poor.  The Jonathan Mann Award was established by the […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) – New York School of Law. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Press Release from the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) – New […]

1st April, 2008 The Shrine of Our Lady of Madhu Is a much respected and venerated shrine to Catholics all over Sri Lanka. For more than 400 years Catholics and as well as non Catholics have gathered around Our Lady of Madhu as a unique Shrine that has served the spiritual needs of Sri Lankans […]

Reporters Without Borders condemns the change to the mandate of the special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression that was made by the United Nations Human Rights Council at the end of its seventh session on 28 March. The rapporteur is now supposed to investigate abuses […]

March 31st, 2008 – http://transcurrents.com/tamiliana/archives/600 by University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna) On 4th August 2006 17 aid workers were extrajudicially executed in their Action Contre la Faim (ACF) compound in Mutur town. Through blatant cover up by the Sri Lankan authorities, their experts, Attorney General and diplomats overseas the facts of killings have been suppressed […]

Reporters Without Borders/Reporters sans frontières Press release 18 March 2008 Reporters Without Borders today called for an explanation from President Mahinda Rajapakse after the army took control yesterday of public Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) television. The army and police sealed off all roads leading to the station in the morning, preventing more than 200 […]

Reporters without Borders is concerned about the fate of five Tamil journalists arrested by anti-terrorist police in Colombo in the past six days and urges the Sri Lankan authorities to explain why they are being held. “The anti-terrorist police are accusing the journalists of receiving money from the Tamil Tiger rebels, but after investigating, we […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) regarding the death sentence of journalist, Mr. Yaghoub Mehrnehad . Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong A Press Release from FIDH and OMCT […]

National Peace Council of Sri Lanka 12/14 Purana Vihara Road Colombo 6 Tel:  2818344, 2854127, 2819064 Tel/Fax:2819064 E Mail:  npc@sltnet.lk Internet:  www.peace-srilanka.org 22.11.07 Media Release The morning attack on the Sunday Leader printing press by a group of unknown assailants is an appalling incident. The group, armed with guns and clubs, forced staff members onto the ground […]

Reporters Without Borders condemns an arson attack early today on the printing press of the Sunday Leader media group, which is located in a high security area outside Colombo. About 15 gunmen that staged the attack must have had support within the security forces, the press freedom organisation said. “Armed men have once again attacked […]

Reporters Without Borders today called for the immediate release of at least 160 journalists arrested by police in Karachi and Hyderabad as they demonstrated peacefully for press freedom. The worldwide press freedom organisation also condemned police brutality against the demonstrators in Karachi, where the vast majority of the arrests were made. Around 20 were arrested […]

The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) today condemned the suspension of the constitution in Pakistan, the summary dismissal of the Chief Justice and the arrest of leading lawyers, and expressed grave concern at this dismantling of the rule of law. “President Musharraf has dealt a grave blow to the rule of law and stability in […]

Dear friends in the solidarity movement, Today, about 200,000 people rallied the streets in Burma (in Rangoon and different cities). The Buddhist monks are leading the pro-democracy rallies, defying military junta’s order for them to stay away from the street rallies or face legal action by the Ministry of Religious Affairs. With the escalation of […]

On the occasion of International Day of Disappeared, Advocacy Forum (AF), a national human rights NGO, stands with the families of disappeared persons and demands that the whereabouts of those who have disappeared in Nepal are made public and those who have committed these crimes be brought to justice. Enforced disappearance is not only a […]

Today, 17 July 2007, international communities who always strive for justice and fight against impunity celebrate the World Day for International Justice. The communities that consist of victims, human rights defenders and countries that care about this commemorate the adoption of the Rome Statute – ICC which symbolizes the establishment of an independent legal institution […]

on June 26, 2007, and focuses on the ongoing problem of torture in Nepal. It is based on the daily monitoring of 35 police detention centres in Nepal, during which Advocacy Forum has alone documented 1,313 new cases of torture since the popular uprisings in April 2006. Link to the report: http://nepal.ahrchk.net/pdf/AHRC-FP-011-2007-Nepal.pdf Asian Human Rights Commission […]

(We refer to earlier communications regarding the Sri Lankan’s Chief Justice’s proposed visit to Hong Kong to attend a meeting at the City University. Kindly see SRI LANKA: The Sunday Times publishes a false story about the CJ attending a meeting in Hong Kong – http://www.ahrchk.net/statements/mainfile.php/2006statements/1090/, HONG KONG: Chief Justice Sarath Silva will not participate at […]

For immediate release 15 June 2007 Meeting with the President of Sri Lanka yesterday, the Secretary-General of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) expressed serious concern about the grave human rights situation in Sri Lanka, including, renewed patterns of enforced disappearances and targeted killings of civilians, as well as shrinking space for civil society. “I […]