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The UNHRC and International Justice

Reviewing the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in relation to the International Criminal Court (ICC).

(NEW YORK) - The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) was established in 2006 via Resolution 60/251.

The responsibility of the body is not only to promote human rights but to have the ability to make recommendations thereon.

Is Tamara Kunnanaykam a Tamil Traitor, Sri Lankan Nationalist or an Opportunist

It now appears Tamara is going back her old UNHRC job.

(MELBOURNE) - After her failure to win the vote for the Sri Lankan government, Sri Lankan UN ambassador, Tamara Kunanayakam, was demoted from her UN position in Geneva UNHRC for failing to win the vote in favour of SL in March 2012.

Tamara is one of the few Sri Lankan ambassadors of Tamil origin.

Wage Theft Education/Information - Feb. 19 & 20 at State Capitol

Rebecca Smith and Kim Bobo Headline Wage Theft Week at State Capitol

(SALEM) - Some of the nation’s leading voices in the fight against wage theft, including authors and activists Kim Bobo and Rebecca Smith, will participate at events next week at the Oregon State Capitol.

Organizers hope to bring attention the extensive problem of employers stealing from workers.

Hillary Clinton: the Epitome of a Failed System

Her latest purely political maneuver shows just what a plotting scheming cowardly politician she is.

(JAMESTOWN, RI) - Hillary Clinton is the consummate scheming politician who represents a continuation of representing corporate interest and caving to special interests at the expense of the American people, but many Democrats and liberals will support her in 2016 because she is “better than the alternative”.

As long as we continue to fall into that trap we deserve what we get.

Is the Hippocratic Oath Being Killed Off by the Big Business of Medicine?

We can do better for our patients – and our dying planet - if we just go back to the honorable past traditions exemplified in the Hippocratic Oath and the Precautionary Principle.

(DULUTH, MN) - When people ask me about what motivates me to occasionally blow the whistle on certain ethical issues, I sometimes say that I am just being true to the Hippocratic Oath that I took when I graduated from medical school.

My 40 year medical career began as a board certified rural family physician and ended by practicing holistic mental health care for a decade.

Deposing the Pope, and More

Few people realize the direct connection between the efforts of our writer, Nobel Prize Nominee Rev. Kevin Annett, and the recent changes in the Catholic Church.

(SALEM) - On the first anniversary of the forced resignation of Pope Benedict, Joseph Ratzinger.

Kevin Annett of the ITCCS describes the enormous repercussions of this historic event, and the three new fronts being opened to end crimes against humanity and usher in a new age.

International Probe a Must in Sri Lanka - USTPAC

Washington urged to stay vigilant against Sri Lanka's Ploy to buy more time.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - United States Tamil Political Action Council (USTPAC) welcomes recent high level visits to Sri Lanka by Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, Nisha Biswal and Ambassador-At-Large for Global Criminal Justice, Stephen Rapp.

USTPAC encourages their steadfast pursuit of accountability to the grave crimes committed against ethnic Tamils.

Crony Capitalism And Free Enterprise: Misunderstanding The American Political Tradition

Crony capitalism is not really capitalism at all, but a form of socialism.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - The economic system we have today is a strange hybrid----made so by the political machinations of both political parties.

In a genuine free market economy, some businesses succeed and some fail. The market decides. In our system, business groups contribute money to political candidates of both parties not because they want government to leave them alone...

Sri Lanka Publications Twist Judicial Reprimand to Defane Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran

Mr. Rudrakumaran has been, and continues to be, a critic of the Government of Sri Lanka.

(NEW YORK) - A disciplinary sanction which a court imposed against a respected New York attorney early last year has recently become a pretext for online character assassination against the attorney by websites that appear to be opposed to the attorney’s politics.

The attorney, Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran, was admitted to the New York bar in 1993.

New Yorker: Attorney General Eric Holder Says He`ll Step Down This Year

As recently as Nov. 19, Holder, the first African-American attorney general in U.S. history, told CBS News that he didn't have "any plans" to step down.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - The embattled U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder, has stated his intention to step down some time this year. His words were published by the New Yorker.

In a feature story for the magazine's Feb. 17 issue (sub. req.), Holder told Jeffrey Toobin that he will leave his post in 2014, though he also said that he planned to remain as attorney general "well into" the year.