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India Concerned Over Resolutions at UNHRC

Sri Lanka is one of the countries against which a resolution is expected to be presented at the ongoing UNHRC session.

(GENEVA) - India is concerned that the recent trend of country specific resolutions may well weaken constructive dialogue and cooperative approach which has prevailed so far in the UN Human Rights Council.

Sri Lanka is one of the countries against which a resolution is expected to be presented at the ongoing UNHRC session and Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe had said this week that Sri Lanka is hopeful of India’s support against the resolution.

Sri Lanka: A Two-Act Drama Unfolding in Colombo

Old father clock is grinding forward with determination and the Rajapakses are with their backs to the wall.

(NOIDA, India) - The large and quite unexpected hike in all prices that Sri Lanka woke up to in the first week of February set off protest movements that are growing and could swell into something very serious.

Then, the government unleashed a wave of street protests against “the imperialist plot to destabilise Sri Lanka and undermine its sovereignty” as the UNHCR sessions opened in Geneva.

UN Secretary-General Must Enforce Recommendations for Accountability Over War Crimes

The United States Tamil Political Action Council and 10 other groups from around the world call on the UN Secretary-General to continue his principled stand on accountability for war crimes in Sri Lanka.

(NEW YORK) - It has been almost a year since the Secretary-General’s Panel of Experts’ Report was released.

The United States Tamil Political Action Council (USTPAC) and 10 other Tamil groups from around the world call on the UN Secretary-General to continue his principled stand on accountability for war crimes in Sri Lanka at the upcoming UN Human Rights Council meetings in a letter released today.

Announcing the Guardianship Convention Against Torture Project

Determine if your guardianship situation qualifies under the terms of the Convention.

(PROGRESO, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico) - While in Geneva, Switzerland recently I met with a number of disability rights oriented groups.

It was suggested to me at that time that the guardianship victims bundle together our complaints and submit under the United Nations Convention Against Torture. The U.S. has both signed and ratified this international treaty and thus is bound to its conditions.

As Silva Barred from Advising UN, Wallstrom Says It`s Right, Ban Takes Note

The UN's Margot Wallstrom said there "should be consequences" for "atrocities."

(UNITED NATIONS) - For 26 days, Inner City Press asked the UN how they could accept Major General Shavendra Silva as a member of the UN "Senior Advisory Group on Peacekeeping Operations" when he was named in connection with war crimes.

On the afternoon of February 22, Silva was told by the Group's chair Louise Frechette that his participation is "not appropriate."

IMF Now Confirms, in its Fashion, Sri Lanka Defense Spending Increase

Answers are slow in coming...

(UNITED NATIONS) - When the International Monetary Fund establishing a lending program with Sri Lanka in 2009, the year in which according even to a UN report the government killed tens of thousands of civilians, the IMF stated that:

"This, together with savings on military spending ... should help finance the considerable reconstruction spending needs... Cuts in military and other expenditures will help make room for post-conflict reconstruction and relief spending."

G.L. Peiris Dropped from UNHRC Speakers` List

Sri Lanka Daily Mirror's Asoka Jayawardena, reports from Geneva.

(GENEVA) - Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Prof. Gamini Lakshman Peiris, who arrived in Geneva two days ago, has been dropped from the speakers' list at the high level segment of 19th session of the UNHRC.

A week ago UNHRC extranet published Mr. Peiris as the speaker from Sri Lanka at the high level segment. By yesterday (Feb. 21), however, Minister of Plantation Industries, Mahinda Samarasinghe has replaced Minister G.L. Peiris.