– Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations, Geneva on OHCHR Report on Sri Lanka, 25th Session of the Human Rights Council, 26 March 2014 Mr. President, My delegation believes in a culture of engagement for ensuring the promotion and protection of human rights. We believe that country-specific initiatives are confrontational and counter-productive and Read More
A group of British MPs has urged Prime Minister Cameron not to back the US-led resolution against Sri Lanka at the ongoing sessions of the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
Naval vessels attached to the North Central Naval Command on routine patrol arrested 19 Indian fishermen and 04 Indian fishing trawlers engaged in poaching in the seas north of Mannar on 26th March 2014. The arrested fishermen and the trawlers were handed over to the officials of the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in Read More
මුල් වතාවට වඩා මෙවර ජිනීවා යෝජනාවේ අරමුණු හා වපසරිය පුළුල් වූ බවක් පැහැදිළියි. යෝජනාවේ ආරම්භක හැඳින්වීමේ හින්දු, මුස්ලිම්, ක්‍රිස්තියානි ආගමික පිරිස්වලට එල්ල කරන ප්‍රහාර සම්බන්ධයෙන් සඳහන් කර තිබේ. අධිකරණයේ නිදහස, කාන්තා හිංසනය, මාධ්‍ය නිදහස වැනි සමාජමය කරුණු ගණනාවක් යෝජනාවේ හැඳින්වීමේම සඳහන් කර තිබේ. යුධ අපරාධ පිළිබඳව නොව ක්‍රම ක්‍රමයෙන් මෙම වපසරිය පුළුල් කිරීමක් දැකිය හැකිය. Read More
Exercising the right to reply on statements made regarding the arrest and detention of Ms. Balendran Jeyakumari, and the incidents in Killinochchi last week, Sri Lanka asked the member states at the 25th Session of the Human Rights Council on 26 March 2014 how their respective countries would react if there was a credible threat Read More
By Alexander Smith The chances of finding Flight 370’s black box recorder will drop dramatically if it is not found before its batteries run out – and that could be as early as next week, according to experts.
TORONTO — Eight years after a group of Toronto men got caught buying arms for Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers, a New York court sentenced the last of them Tuesday to serve two years in prison.
Campaigning for the March 29 Western and Southern Provincial Council Poll will be concluded by midnight today (March 26).
The Union Ministry of External Affairs has conceded that the Centre has been imparting long-term and short-term training in technical and non-technical streams for Sri Lankan Navy personnel in order to enhance maritime security in the region.
Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Ambassador Ravinatha Aryasinha responding to the High Commissioner’s Report on Sri Lanka, informed the UN Human Rights Council on 26th March 2014 that rather than encourage and support the ongoing reconciliation process in Sri Lanka, as well as the constructive engagement Sri Lanka continues to Read More
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