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Two hundred bogus asylum seekers from Sri Lanka are reportedly stranded in West Africa, according to a BBC news report.
Women who have lost their husbands and sons in Sri Lanka’s decades-long conflict have been forced to turn to prostitution, say women’s rights activists. Geetha Lakmini of World Fisherfolk Solidarity Movement said over 85,000 women were widowed in the north and east after the war. “One village in Madhu area is infamous for prostitution because ...
- War widows 'forced into prostitution' (Category: Breaking News)
- Widows in the North have been pushed into prostitution (Category: Breaking News)
- Mobile Sri Lankan prostitution rings using Chinese women (Category: Breaking News)
- Nebraska man sentenced to 47 years for sex trafficking teens (Category: USA, Nebraska)
The sports minister in Sri Lanka says that exclusive broadcasting rights of 2012 Olympics obtained by state-owned Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) will not be sold to private channel as reported by media. The Sunday Leader newspaper said the Carlton Sports Network (CSN), reportedly owned by President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s family, has sought the broadcasting ...
- Channel owned by the president Rajapaksa has sought the exclusive broadcasting rights of the 201... (Category: Breaking News)
- Olympics Only For SLRC (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajapaksas Wrestle For Olympic Rights Muscling Out Rupavahini (Category: Breaking News)
- SLRC To Take Legal Action Against MTV (Category: Breaking News)
Almost three years after the end of the civil war, Sri Lanka is still dogged by allegations of human rights violations. Amid fresh moves in the UN's Human Rights Council to hold Sri Lanka to account, the BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo reports on a rise ...
- Bond Auction (Category: Business)
- ‘SL will implement home-grown solution’ (Category: Breaking News)
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Below are excerpts of a 38 page paper by Brian Senewiratne (MA. MD. FRCP.FRACP) of Brisbane, Australia titled UN Human Rights Council Meeting – Another Farce. Excerpts: “This is not a document for easy reading, nor is it meant to be. It is a reasonably comprehensive record of the abysmal record of the UN and the UN ...
- Solhiem Meets Diaspora Ahead Of UNHRC Vote (Category: Breaking News)
- UN under pressure over Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka: The UN Secretary-General Must Enforce the UN's Own Recommendations for Accountabi... (Category: Breaking News)
- Should India vote for war crime motion on Sri Lanka? (Category: Breaking News)
Former UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes has said that the United Nations did not succeed in rescuing the innocent Tamil civilians used by the LTTE as human shields. Mr. Holmes emphasized that the United Nations had no authority under whatever circumstances to forcibly interfere in the internal affairs of a sovereign ...
- Sleuths uncover hidden trove of Isaac Newton's world-changing Principia - CNET (Category: Technology)
- Sleuths uncover hidden trove of Isaac Newton's world-changing Principia - CNET (Category: Technology)
- Sleuths uncover hidden trove of Isaac Newton's world-changing Principia - CNET (Category: Technology)
- Sleuths uncover hidden trove of Isaac Newton's world-changing Principia - CNET (Category: Technology)
The director of a British documentary on last stages of Sri Lanka’s civil war has accused the West and the UN of failing to take any “effective action” to prevent alleged war crimes by the country’s security forces BBC Sandeshaya reports.
In May, 2003, I travelled around Iraq reporting on its oil industry. Before reaching Baghdad, I got in touch with Marie Colvin, who was there covering the war and its aftermath for the Sunday Times, where I worked from 1986 to 1993. She wrote back to say that she was staying at a hunt club in ...
- Marie Colvin killed in Syria (Category: Breaking News)
- War reporter Marie Colvin laid to rest in New York (Category: Breaking News)
- Marie Colvin remembered by Jaffna journalist (Category: Breaking News)
- Family remembers Marie Colvin (Category: Breaking News)
Girls as young as seven have been sexually abused and sexual violence against women is on the increase in northern Sri Lanka, say health officials. According to a senior health official in Jaffna peninsula 32 incidents of child abuse and sexual abuse have been reported during the last two months. Dr S Sivaruban, the ...
- Man charged with child sex offences (Category: South Australia)
- Push to reform sex laws (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- Morcombe inquest: 'sensitive' evidence (Category: Australia, Queensland)
- Man charged over child sex abuse (Category: Western Australia)
Sri Lanka s human rights issue are causing huge divisions in the United Nations. The member st..
The British Embassy in Colombo today monitored the return of a group of failed asylum seekers who had been deported from Britain. According to the Embassy, the British Deputy High Commission in Sri Lanka Robbie Bulloch monitored the return of 52 failed asylum seekers at the Katnayake airport. “I visited Colombo airport today to observe ...
- McLaren urges no Fury for Fowler (Category: Western Australia)
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- Embassy monitors return of deportee (Category: Breaking News)
- Over 100 maids to return (Category: Breaking News)
Britain has questioned concerns raised by two charities which say that Sri Lankan Tamils deported from the UK are at danger of being tortured or raped. Another charter flight returning people to the island nation, including Tamil and Sinhala failed asylum-seekers, is due to leave on Tuesday. But Human Rights Watch and Freedom from Torture ...
Reporters Without Borders calls on all members of the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council, which began its 19th session yesterday, to pass a resolution condemning the Sri Lankan government’s violations of freedom of information and to demand an end to threats and violence against news media and human rights defenders in Sri Lanka. “For ...
- Alarming Increase in hostile rhetoric, threats of reprisals against exiled journalists from Sri ... (Category: Breaking News)
- U.N. to investigate Prageeth Eknelygoda's disappearance (Category: Breaking News)
- UN urged to contact wife of missing Sri Lankan cartoonist (Category: Breaking News)
- Media Freedom In Sri Lanka; Why Are Journalists’ Murder Investigations Being Avoided? (Category: Breaking News)
A teenager has admitted to killing a Sri Lankan shop worker on Merseyside, the BBC reported. Mahesh Wickramasingha, 30, a father of two suffered fatal stab wounds while working at Stanley News in Huyton on November 29. Sam Harrison, 19, of Salerno Drive, Huyton, appeared by video
- Expert body to reform the law (Category: South Australia)
- Desal firms in $9m suit strife (Category: South Australia)
- Matara MC Opp. leader leaves meeting in protest (Category: Breaking News)
- First poppy flower (Category: Business)
British journalist Marie Colvin, who was contacted by the LTTE to broker a surrender during the final stages of the war, has been killed in Syria while she was covering the fighting in that country, the BBC reported a short while ago. Colvin and photographer Remi Ochlik both died in the attack
- President Said Use White Flags – Nambiar (Category: Breaking News)
- Marie Colvin killed in Syria (Category: Breaking News)
- Tributes paid to Marie Colvin (Category: Breaking News)
- War reporter Marie Colvin dies in Syria (Category: Breaking News)
(Srilankamirror) - Mr. Rajitha Seneratne, the Cabinet Minister for Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development, when answering a question to a BBC Sinhala Service correspondent regarding the shooting of a fisherman at a peaceful demonstration in Chilaw stated that the shooting of demonstrators
- Shooting of ‘Kusa Paba’ complete (Category: Breaking News)
- Executive presidential system and the supremacy of T56 - AHRC (Category: Breaking News)
- Police search on for Tangalle PS chairman (Category: Breaking News)
- Funeral of fisherman killed in shooting on Feb. 18 (Category: Breaking News)
Students of the Buddhist Pali University in Sri Lanka have accused university authorities of failing to take action against corrupt officials despite parliament damning the university, BBC reports. .
- Education roundup (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Education roundup (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Education roundup (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Students give campus big tick (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
A few days left to the UNHRC sessions in Geneva, the Colombo-based nominated parliamentarian of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), Mr. M.A. Sumanthiran, has come out with a statement to BBC Sinhala Service on Wednesday, bailing out the regime of Mahinda Rajapaksa. TNA backs a domestic process
(Srilankamirror) - The European Parliament has called on the United Nations to establish an inquiry into the alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka. In a motion for a resolution, the European Parliament has called on the EU presidency, among many other issues, to urge the UN to implement the recommendations of the expert panel appointed by the UN secretary general on Sri Lanka. It comes as US Ass...
- UN Report (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka to facilitate UN Panel to make representations to LLRC (Category: Breaking News)
- UN: Reviewing Letter On Journalist Eknaligoda (Category: Breaking News)
- United Nations in Sri Lanka marks 66th UN Day (Category: Business)
THERE are signs that the international community is gearing up for action to hold Sri Lanka accountable for alleged war crimes committed by its forces at the end of the brutal civil war against the Tamil Tiger rebels in 2009. A resolution is being prepared for next month’s session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva ...
- Sri Lankan Tamil leaders reject commission report, call for international war crimes probe (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka risks forced war crimes probe: US (Category: Breaking News)
- FULL ACCOUNTING TO DEAL WITH WAR CRIMES CHALLENGES (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka: Calls for war-crimes probe escalate as Tamils commemorate massacre (Category: Breaking News)
“I believe a journalist can change the world,” says exiled Sri Lankan journalist Sonali Samarasinghe, “if not why are we here then”. Sonali is one of three exiled journalists, from the minority Tamil and majority Sinhalese communities, whose stories are told in a new Norwegian film, Silenced Voices, by Beate Arnestadpreviewed last night at the Fritt ...
- Stories of silenced voices – a documentary (Category: Breaking News)
- Silenced Voices speak – the real Sri Lanka story (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka: Award winning film-maker presents documentary on exiled Sinhala, Tamil journalists (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka: Arnestads Silenced Voices documentary gains momentum (Category: Breaking News)
Francis Harrison, former BBC foreign correspondent whose book of accounts of survivors from Sri Lankas civil war is to be published this summer, says in an article in the Dawn, that there are "signs that the international community is gearing up for action to hold Sri Lanka accountable
- Reality check for doping in sport (Category: Technology)
- Letter: An open letter to anti-maskers (Category: USA, North Dakota)
- Letter: An open letter to anti-maskers (Category: USA, North Dakota)
- How the Amazon rainforest is being saved (Category: Technology)
A UN special envoy arrived Friday for talks with the new administration in the Maldives, as former president Mohamed Nasheed called for fresh elections after being ousted in what he called a coup d'etat, AFP reported. Assistant Secretary General Oscar Fernandez-Taranco reached the capital Male early Friday and was due to hold talks with new president Mohamed Waheed. “There will be a meetin...
- Nasheed demands election, warns of protests (Category: Business)
- Nasheed Won’t Seek Asylum (Category: Breaking News)
- Arrest warrant issued for M. Nasheed ! President inquires about Nasheed’s safety (Category: Breaking News)
- New president denies Maldives coup (Category: Breaking News)
During a meeting with the media the ousted Maldivian President said he will not consider leaving the country and would fight for a return to power, the BBC reported. Further a video clip on the BBC website captures President Nasheed commenting that should he leave the "
- First poppy flower (Category: Business)
- People’s Bank celebrates International Migrants Day (Category: Business)
- Ananda OBA donates ‘Ananda College four’ for rowing crew (Category: Business)
- Cory Bernardi's wife elected to council (Category: South Australia)
BBC Colombo correspondent Charles Haviland has been injured in a road accident in Sri Lanka's Yala National Park in the South, a report in a Sinhala website said.
BBC Colombo correspondent Charles Haviland has been injured in a road accident in Sri Lanka`s Yala N..
Feb 08, Colombo: BBC Colombo correspondent Charles Haviland has been injured in a road accident in Sri Lanka's Yala National Park in the South, a report in a Sinhala website said.
The extrajudicial killing of civilians, surrendering soldiers and dissident journalists under the direction of the Sri Lankan government has been alleged by a former general in the Army who was extremely well-placed to comment on military activity during the island nation’s bloody civil war. The source, whose name is withheld for reasons of safety, had high-level ...
- Sri Lankan govt gave orders to commit war crimes, new evidence shows — The International (Category: Breaking News)
- Time for a reality check on the Sri Lankan civil war (Category: Breaking News)
- Plaintiffs file opposition to suggestion of immunity in war crimes case against Rajapakse (Category: Breaking News)
- Cuba out voted at UN Human Rights Council over Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
The 200 Sri Lankan Tamil refugees stranded in West Africa are enduring miserable conditions in Togo, the BBC reported. They say they are living on meagre rations and face the prospect of imminent deportation home. The refugees say they are being detained by the army in an open sports stadium
- Bound for Canada, stranded in Togo (Category: Breaking News)
- Smugglers dump Canada-bound Tamils in Togo (Category: Breaking News)
- We are cleaning the toilets : Tamil refugees in Togo (Category: Breaking News)
- Togo authorities holding 150 Sri Lanka refugees (Category: Breaking News)
In a human smuggling operation gone sour, around 200 Sri Lankan refugee claimants hoping to come to Canada are stranded in West Africa, the BBC reported The BBC reports that 200 Sri Lankans travelled through India and Ethiopia before a smuggler abandoned them in Togo instead
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