- 15 May 2014
From Tiananmen to Jaffna: Banning community commemoration
The parallels are stark. As the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre approaches, Chinese police have begun detaining activists who might be planning to stage protests against the government for the bloody killings........
- 15 April 2014
UN inquiry just the start of a long road to justice
Sri Lankan human rights activists campaigned hard for an independent international commission of inquiry into war crimes during the end of the conflict in 2009. Last month members of the UN Human Rights Council did....
- 04 February 2014
Permanent Peoples’ Tribunals and the pursuit of justice in Sri Lanka
Competitive, state-centred international politics are often a barrier for victims of human rights violations to find redress through global judicial institutions. To circumvent some of these restrictions the civil society-led International....
- 16 November 2013
Genocide, refugees and an inconvenient truth about Harper's boycott
In 2009, I was amongst thousands of Toronto’s Tamil community that protested against the war in Sri Lanka. We braved the bitter cold and formed human chains across downtown to desperately turn.....
- 24 March 2014
Government rounds up activists as UN fudges on inquiry
As the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva was discussing the clauses of its resolution on Sri Lanka, the Colombo government used troops and special laws to arrest human rights defenders (HRDs) in the northern part....
- 21 November 2013
The time for an international investigation is now
British Prime Minister David Cameron’s presence at last week’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) facilitated coverage that might not have been possible otherwise for media organisations.....
- 23 September 2013
Sunila - A Tribute to an indefatigable defender of human dignity
The last time I saw Sunila was on October 2, 2012, when she visited the Norwegian University of Life Sciences to speak on Women’s situation and human rights under militarisation of society : the case of Sri Lanka and personal................
