Globally over 50,000 NGOs (international and local) enjoy $10billion fund allocations. Who funds them and what they do with the funds raises more questions than answers. For too long we have mistakenly fallen prey to organizations that have pretended to …
It’s a neat plan. The ill-willed gets some quotes from the ill-willed, write a report, the ‘informants’ say ‘see, even they say it’ and mutual-massaging inflates, inflates and inflates. And so the infamous ‘Darusman Report’ will in fact chair the …
The Tamil National Alliance has responded with glee to the note penned by UNHCR chief Navi Pillai. The TNA, almost three years ago, salivated similarly when the illegally set up panel of experts (sic) led by a man called Darusman …
Her husband a terrorist leader was responsible for the most number of child conscription for the LTTE and her own role is questioned past and present.
(a child innocently asked ‘If Vegetarians eat Vegetables ….. what do Humanitarians” eat!)…
February 22, 2014,
(Courtesy of The Sunday Island)
There seems to be a school of thought in the country that the government should heed the calls made by the Western powers for an internal inquiry into allegations of human rights …
“Let him who is without sin among you cast the first stone”
The US claims that it is losing patience with Sri Lanka for its slow progress on ‘accountability’. Within 4 years Sri Lanka has not only eliminated the world’s
…Reporting of the civil war in Sri Lanka has tended to distort various aspects of the violence that ensued, particularly in terms of the number of civilian casualties and the causes of their deaths.
By Michael Roberts and Padraig …
Navi Pillay is expected to submit the Report by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Sri Lanka at the 25th session of the UN Human Rights Council, sometime this month.
All Sri Lankans will however …
In a little over a month the UNHRC will vote on an anti-Sri Lanka resolution submitted by the world’s worst human rights offender, the United States of America. The politics of these moves draws heavily from a report submitted to …
Courtesy for Foreign Policy Journal
February 4, 2014
This paper is an update to a previous paper of mine published in Foreign Policy Journal in March 2013, titled, “The illegality of UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon’s approach to …