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Courtesy The Nation As the UK Permanent Representative explicitly stated when addressing the Human Rights Council on Oct 1, the US-UK resolution is firmly founded upon Zeid al Hussein’s report. As Zeid al Hussein made amply clear in his video..

Chaos prevailed in La Chapelle, Paris on Friday around 4 p.m. when several members of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) came under strong verbal attack by a number of irate Tamil Diaspora members, mostly LTTE Tamil terrorists sympathizers, and the French Police had to..

Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) Leader and MP Udaya Gammanpila said that the reply letter sent by President Maithripala Sirisena regarding the Constitutional Council (CC) appointments was amusing. Gammanpila had sent a letter to President Sirisena on Monday asking for his..

Dismissing much touted accusations regarding the massacre of over 40,000 civilians on the Vanni east front during 2009, Skills Development and Vocational Training Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe accused the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council of relentlessly pursuing a political agenda..

Defence columnist, Keerthi Waranakuslsuriya the veteran defence columnist of Sunday Divaina was reporting from Geneva the treacherous role played by the individuals and NGOs et during the sessions of the OHCR for last two weeks. He had been covering the..

Since pro-Federalist and pro-Tamil Ranil; and pro-minority Sirisena backed in power in 2015 they are after the war heroes to keep the promises and pact that they signed with pro-LTTE Tamil terrorists’ political party TNA. In the beginning, they sentenced..

By Kalinga Seneviratne | IDN-InDepthNews Analysis SINGAPORE (IDN) – Making a statement during its latest session in Geneva, UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein lamented that many of their member states do not tolerate criticism and..

Into the hall of historical shame will enter the present UNSG, the UNHRC heads and officials and all other foreign nations that have been party to successive resolutions demanding investigations against a UN member state. The matter becomes hilarious for..

American Forces Bombed Hospital in Kunduz? Air strikes on a hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz that killed 19 people were “tragic, inexcusable and possibly even criminal”, the UN human rights chief says. High Commissioner Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein..

Pakistan making a special statement says that those who have been critical of Sri Lanka’s effort to overcome terrorism and separatism funded from abroad would do well to look at their own track record on the so-called war on terror…