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His Excellency Ban Ki Moon The secretary General, United Nations Your Excellency, The Agonising Cry , Sri-Lanka We the Roman Catholic Priests and Religious serving the people in Wanni, the theatre of ...
FCCT panel on 21 January 2008 10 am 11:30 am While Thailand is steadily progressing economically and many more are enjoying growing prosperity, this progress does not extend to all regions and peop...
Reporters Without Borders today voiced its public support for a demonstration to be held in London on 15 January in protest at the killing of a prominent Sri Lankan editor. The demonstration will be t...
With grave concern I am writing to you for your immediate intervention following the fact that today at about 3.00 p.m. we were informed that more 5000 persons are going to be evicted from their lawfu...
2009 will be the year of politics — electoral politics to be precise. Thus, when one attempts to speculate on the human rights situation next year, the result will probably take a very political...
As a tribute to the slain journalist we reproduce below some articles from latest edition of the Sunday Leader (January 11, 2009) of which Lasantha Wickramatunga was the founder and chief editor. The ...
Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the murder of Sunday Leader editor Lasantha Wickrematunga, who was shot dead by two men on a motorcycle as he drove to work this morning in Colombo. “...
Investigate Killing of Prominent Journalist (New York, January 8, 2009) The killing of a prominent newspaper editor today and the bombing of a private television station on January 6, 2009, highlig...
(December 27, 2008) The behavior by Israel in bombarding Gaza is simply the commission of wanton aggression by a very powerful state against a territory that [it?] illegally occupies. Time has come to...
Reporters Without Borders strongly condemned today’s pre-dawn attack by a dozen heavily-armed men that badly damaged the studios of the Maharaja Television/Broadcasting Network (MTV/MBC) in Pann...
Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from Human Rights Watch. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————...
Indonesian authorities should immediately investigate the forcible destruction of an estimated 300 homes in the village of Suluk Bongka on 18 December, Amnesty International said today. Local sources ...
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT 23 December 2008 AI Index No: ASA 23/044/2008 The Cambodian Supreme Court must seize the opportunity to deliver justice in the high-profile murder case of union ...
Dear Friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from ActionAid Pakistan and Bhandar Hari Sangat. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from ...
From: HRW Asia <asia@hrw.org> Date: 2008/12/15 Subject: Sri Lanka: Tamil To: HRW Asia <asia@hrw.org> For Immediate Release Forced Recruitment, Restrictions on Movement Put Lives at Risk (N...
According to a news report on December 11, 2008, Maj. Gen. Verachai Nakvanich, commander of the Narathiwat Task Force Unit, chaired an event to receive misled people who had decided to attend the ...
The Human Rights University Network – Sur and the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) invites all interested parties to send in their contributions for the Special Issue of the...
December 15, 2008: LRWC joins with the jurists, lawyers and legal academics from throughout Asia who assembled in Hong Kong on November 17-21, 2008 for the Fourth Regional Consultation on an Asian Cha...
Reporters Without Borders deplores the latest cases of government censorship of international and local news media. In the past few days, the BBC World Service has been jammed by the state-owned Sri L...
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