It is significant that India which supported the U.S. proposals against Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council on the two previous occasions remained absent from voting in the election held on Thursday (March 26). India said that the US proposal was not inconsistent with the UNHRC principles.
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) opposed India for its decision to abstain from the US sponsored resolution in UNHRC which was passed today (27).
Following a successful side event at the Palais des Nations, where “The Last Phase”, a documentary based on the lives of two former LTTE combatants and told from the point of view of Jeyawadani, a former female combatant, who grew up with the doctrine of the said terrorists group in ‘Sencholai’ and spent her youth Read More
Dear Diplomats, Lawmakers and Distinguished Leaders of World’s Nations, May I draw your attention to the above YOUTUBE link of a CBS 60-Minutes report by Christiana Amanpour depicting how the US and Britain secretly planned inhuman relocation of Diego Garcia atoll’s natives and inhabitants through deportation to Mauritius and Fiji Islands to facilitate establishing a Read More
Canadian Sri Lankans of Ottawa held a large Hands Off Sri Lanka protest rally outside USA Embassy on Tuesday March 25 2014 from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm in subzero temperatures.
India abstained from voting on Thursday in the US-sponsored resolution in the United Nations Human Rights Council(UNHRC), which seeks to authorise the body to set up an “independent international inquiry” in Sri Lanka to probe into human rights violations during Sri Lankan civil war against LTTE in 2009.
More than 300 floating objects have been spotted close to the spot where investigators believe Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 crashed, the owner of a Thai satellite said Thursday.
ශී්ර ලංකාවට එරෙහිව අමෙරිකාව ප්රමූඛ රටවල් ඉදිරිපත් කළ යෝජනාවලිය ජිනීවා මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලයේදී අද (27) සම්මත වුවත් ඊට විරුද්ධව රටවල් 12ක් හා ඡන්දය දීමෙන් වැළකී සිටීමට රටවල් 12ක් තීන්දු කළ නිසා යෝජනාවට පක්ෂ වූවාට වඩා වැඩි රටවල් ගණනක් ඊට අකමැත්ත ප්රකාශ කර ඇතැයි විදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්ය මහාචාර්ය ජී.එල්. පීරිස් මහතා අද පස්වරුවේ හම්බන්තොට දී පැවති Read More
Mr. Ravinatha P. Aryasinha, Ambassador / Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the 25th Session of the Human Rights Council The Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva
Several countries including Russia and China criticised the report compiled by UN Human Rights Chief Navi Pillay, during the interactive dialogue held at the UNHRC sessions in Geneva yesterday.
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