- 21 October 2013
Lankan army destroys remaining LTTE graveyards a month ahead of ‘Heroes Week’
The politico-military leadership of Colombo has issued fresh orders to its armed forces in the former war-zone in the north to take control of the remaining Tamil Tiger graveyards, flatten them and occupy....
- 23 September 2013
UN washing its hands of destitute Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in Dubai
In a move widely seen as a major departure from its stated obligations and assigned responsibilities, the United Nations has virtually washed its hands of a group of 12 Sri Lankan Tamils, including a four-year old girl and three women...............
- 06 September 2013
A haunting legacy: Australia's rising tide of xenophobia
This week in Melbourne we saw another Tamil refugee quietly released into the community after being incarcerated for almost four years because of a negative ASIO assessment. One day this 26-year-old man, who has never.........
- 22 August 2013
UN finds Australia violates international law by detaining refugees
The UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva , on Thusrday (22), found that Australia has committed 143 serious violations of international law by indefinitely detaining 46 refugees for four years, on the basis...............
- 09 September 2013
Mounting threats on people for meeting Navi Pillay in Sri Lanka
Unleashing a vicious campaign of witch-hunt, Sri Lankan defence authorities have continued to harass, threat and intimidate a number of human rights activists, priests, journalists and many civilians in the former war-zones for.....................
- 31 August 2013
Will Commonwealth find UN Human Rights chief credible enough?
Visiting UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navaneetham Pillai on Saturday has openly slammed the incumbent regime of President Mahinda Rajapaksa as one that is “heading in an increasingly authoritarian direction”...............
- 17 August 2013
Abott to send thousands back to torture and rape
An Abbott Government would condemn thousands of people to torture, rape, jailings and beatings if it goes ahead with a plan to fast-track more than 30,000 community-based asylum-seekers back to their homelands. The policy....
