Posts Tagged ‘United Nations’
Sri Lankan anger over US move at UN rights council
[AFP] Sri Lanka on Thursday vowed to hold mass protests against US-backed moves at the United Nations to press for an independent probe into alleged war crimes during the island’s civil war. [Full Story]
Read MoreAppeal to UN over missing Sri Lanka activists
[BBC] Campaigners in Sri Lanka have urged the United Nations to intervene in the case of two activists believed to have been abducted last month. [Full Story]
Read MoreSri Lanka to hold first post-war census in March
[AFP] Sri Lanka will hold its first post-war census in March which will cover the entire Indian Ocean island for the first time in over 30 years, officials said on Wednesday. [Full Story]
Read MoreSri Lanka war probe calls for new inquiry
[Al Jazeera] A Sri Lankan government probe into the civil war against ethnic Tamil rebels has concluded that further investigations of alleged abuses committed in the final stages of the country’s 25-year conflict are necessary. [Full Story]
Read MoreIs This Ban’s ‘Never Again’ Moment?
[Huffington Post] We failed to prevent a massacre in Sri Lanka. We must not fail to seek justice for it. ‘Never again’ is the promise that has followed the Holocaust, Cambodia, Rwanda and Srebrenica; issued each time with outrage and contrition, and, in recent years, a report on the failure of the international community to…
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