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Protests at Commonwealth summit as leaders set to debate plans for new stronger line on civil rights abuses

By pearlaction | October 28, 2011 |

[Daily Mail UK] Protesters laid siege to the Commonwealth summit in Perth, Australia, this morning as leaders met to debate how human rights can be secured across all 54 member states. [Full Story]

Harper’s stand on Sri Lanka is just not cricket

By pearlaction | October 26, 2011 |

[The Globe and Mail] On Australia’s western shore, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is upsetting the Commonwealth tea party. It’s not just that he declared that Sri Lanka’s human-rights record, so far, would make it an unfit host for the 2013 Commonwealth summit. It’s that those statements have made Sri Lanka something of an example for the…