Salem-News.com Human Rights articles Page 22

UN Calls for Accountability And Sri Lanka Wants Time And Space

The human rights situation in Sri Lanka will come under scrutiny before the UNHRC at its 25th session.

(MELBOURNE) - This is a very good addendum, to what I wrote on Salman Khurshid's wakening, by Joseph Ladislaus.

He has dug up an old Tamil Net article on Vikatan's interview with Francis A. Boyles on the subject of the utility of Tamil Eelam to Indian security. This interview was given in May 2010 and reported in Tamil Net on 6 June 2010.

Rohingya: Time to Reflect for Consultative Leadership

Appeal to distinguished gentlemen and ladies regardless faith worldwide

(KUALA LAMPUR Burma Times) - The ongoing state-sponsored silent Rohingya massacre is a catastrophe not only for Rohingya but also for the humanity at large.

Thus, it is an obligation upon every individual who comes across this article to counsel Rohingya individuals and social and political parties to be unified...

Judge Orders Demolition of Slum Settlements

I wonder that if the Capital Development Authority will take action as per the High Court Judge, where these five thousands families will settle?

(ISLAMABAD) - Life is so precious, and everyone in the world would love to live safe and sound lives, nobody wishes for that more than the people living in the suburbs of Islamabad (slum areas).

They are forced to live a different kind of life there. I feel pity to think of the circumstances they are living in...

Israelis Attack Palestinians in Jordan Valley near Deir Hijlah

Violence jumps as Israeli Apartheid week gets underway...

(BETHLEHEM) - Early this morning, Israeli forces brutally uprooted Palestinians who made presence in the Jordan Valley near Deir Hijlah. Many Palestinians were injured including our friend Abdullah Aburahma from Bil'in whose arm was broken.

Israeli media ignored this event...

Lifting the Siege of Yarmouk One Food Parcel & One Polio Vaccination at a Time

Many food parcel recipients quickly open the jar of jam inside the cardboard box and scoop the confections into the mouths of their children or the nearby infirm refugees, usually elderly.

(YARMOUK Palestinian camp, Damascus) - It’s been seven days since the first humanitarian aid, generally in the form of 56 lb. food parcels packed by UNWRA, entered Yarmouk.

This follows half a dozen aborted attempts by various militia and political groups to achieve consensus to deliver aid.

Gaza crisis: ``We must impose sanctions`` says MP

"If the spineless Obama will not do it, we must do it—even unilaterally."

(LONDON) - I'd like to share, especially with American readers, a great moment in the British Parliament on 5 February when the MP for Gorton, Manchester, Sir Gerald Kaufman rose to speak in a debate on the humanitarian situation in Gaza.

"I once led a delegation of 60 parliamentarians from 13 European Parliaments to Gaza. I could no longer do that today because Gaza is practically inaccessible..."

SPECIAL FEATURE: The Bare Naked Face of Capitalism: Goldman Prizewinner Gets 21 Years for Resistance to Genocide

Foreign mining, state corruption & Genocide in Mongolia.

(WILLIAMSBURG, MA) - Packed with distortions and outright lies, Mongolia's privatized former state media called them the 'enemies of Mongolia'.

On 16 September 2013, the leaders of Mongolia's Fire Nation (Gal Undesten in Mongolian), an environment and human rights coalition, organized a mass protest in front of the Mongolian Parliament.

True Anti-imperialists Must Stand By Tamils

The forcible deportation of the ethnic Tamils from Colombo to the Northern and Eastern parts has been compared to the Holocaust.

(COPENHAGEN) - A leading Uncle Tom Tamil, Tamara Kunanayakam, will apparently again be leading the Sri Lankan government’s case for itself at the 25th Rights Council (HRC), March 3-28.

This traitor-to-her-people supports genocidal Sinhalese governments, for which the current President Mahinda Rajapaksa appointed her as ambassador to Cuba (2009-11), and then as Permanent Representative to the United Nations at Geneva on August 9, 2011. She was relieved of this duty in July 2012.

Forging a Socialist-Islamist Alliance

Review of Eric Walberg, From Postmodernism to Postsecularism: Re-emerging Islamic Civilization, Clarity Press, 2013

(OLDENBURG, Germany) - Most western Middle East experts see Islam as a problem for the West -- a source of terrorism, religious fanaticism, unwanted immigrants -- and they see their job as helping to change the Middle East so it's no longer a problem for us.

Eric Walberg, however, recognizes that this is another instance of the Big Lie.

Religious Bigotry

Fawad Chaudhry, one of the PPP political leaders has demanded that people nominated by Taliban for negotiations should be arrested and investigated for their links with terrorists...

(ISLAMABAD) - We are building not so much a multi racial society or a multi cultural society, we are building separate societies which really don’t have much to do with other.

Equipped with just enough religion to hate those with another faith but not enough to love their co-religionists – Pakistanis have mostly turned their backs on religious atrocities.