Live Breaking News & Updates on Centre For The Study Of Human Rights

Stay updated with breaking news from Centre for the study of human rights. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.

"Increasingly Out Of Touch": Hobby Lobby Shows The Need For A More Diverse Supreme Court « mykeystrokes.com

The United States Supreme Court ended its most recent judicial term this week in a characteristically dramatic fashion. The Court often leaves the most contentious and controversial cases to be decided last, and this year was no exception. A deeply divided Court split 5-4 over the hashtag-friendly Burwell v. Hobby Lobby case, an innocuous name… ....

United States , Hilary Stauffer , United States Supreme Court , Supreme Court Caucasian Males , London School Of Economics , Centre For The Study Of Human Rights , Supreme Court , Hobby Lobby , Supreme Court Justices , Hobby Lobby Shows The Need For , More Diverse Supreme , United State , Roman Catholic , Court Justices , Christian Caucasian , Visiting Fellow , London School , Human Rights , Huffington Post Blog , Caucasian Males , Breligious Beliefs ,

LankaWeb – Did Sri Lanka commit 'war crimes'? International Legal luminary Sir Desmond de Silva says NO


to determine if they are permissible collateral damage, a 
violation of IHL only occurs if there is an intentional attack directed against civilians (violation of principle of distinction), 
or if an attack is launched on a military objective with the knowledge that the incidental civilian injuries would be clearly excessive in relation to the anticipated military advantage (violation principle of proportionality).”
In the final stages of the war, according to the Report of the Secretary General’s Panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka around 330,000 civilians were trapped in an ever decreasing area, fleeing the shelling but kept hostage by the LTTE and being used as a strategic human buffer between themselves and the advancing SLA.” ....

Sri Lanka , United States , Los Angeles , United Kingdom , Serbia General , An Najaf , Gaza Strip , New York , Komunae Gjakoves , City Of , Chelyabinskaya Oblast , Israel General , Sri Lankan , Rajiv Gandhi , Luis Moreno Ocampo , Al Qaeda , Stanislav Galic , Moammar Gadhafi , John Holmes , V Dusco Tadic , Slobodan Milosevic , Gordon Weiss , Sri Lanka Army , International Convention On Economic , International Conflicts , Israel Air ,

Daily Mirror - Struggle for justice against enforced disappearances


HomeOpinionStruggle for justice against enforced disappearances
Struggle for justice against enforced disappearances
11 December 2020 07:55 pm
- 0    
Family members of the disappeared vow that they will continue their struggle to seek the truth despite a multitude of challenges
Since 1991 various commemorations have been held by civil society organizations together with family members of missing persons (Pics AFP)
 
This year due to the lockdown of areas amidst the prevalence of COVID-19 pandemic, family members of the disappeared engaged in commemorations at their homes
This year’s 30th commemoration, during most difficult times, is a historical milestone in the continuous struggle for truth, justice and guarantees of non-recurrence, and insistence to those in power ....

Sri Lanka , Sri Lankan , Mahinda Rajapaksa , Sirimavo Bandaranaike , Shavendra Silva , Asanka Aberathne , Dayawathi Amma , Mareen Nilashani , Chandrika Kumaratunga , Centre For The Study Of Human Rights , Un Human Rights Council , University Of Peradeniya , Commander Of The Army , Office On Reparations , Presidential Commission , Member Of Parliament , United Nations , Geneva Human Rights Council , Sri Lanka The Office On Missing Persons , Office On Missing Persons , All Persons , International Day , Enforced Disappearances , Missing Persons , Liberation Tamil Tigers , Sri Lankan Government ,