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Former UN officials and independent experts call on the international community to take immediate steps towards justice and accountability to end Sri Lanka’s cycles of violence. The recently released report on Sri Lanka by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights underlines, yet again, the country’s lack of progress on justice and accountability. Based largely on an analysis of emerging trends, it makes a compelling case for decisive international action to ensure justice and accountability for mass human rights violations and atrocities in Sri Lanka as a central element of the search for sustained reconciliation and the prevention of the recurrence of rights abuses and conflict. ....
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A webinar with former top UN and US officials and Sri Lankan participants calls for a strong UNHRC resolution A webinar with former top UN and US officials and Sri Lankan participants calls for a strong UNHRC resolution PRESS STATEMENT A webinar with former top UN and US officials and Sri Lankan participants calls for a strong UNHRC resolution Warning that UN failure on Sri Lanka could spur worldwide pandemic of impunity, panellists emphasized the need to act on the UN High Commissioner’s recommendations A webinar “Sri Lanka: Quest for Justice, Rule of Law and Democratic Rights”, co-hosted by the Global Tamil Forum (GTF), Centre for Human Rights and Global Justice – New York University, Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace and Justice and the Canadian Tamil Congress (CTC), held on February 12 ....
The tragic final months of Sri Lanka’s civil war in 2009 have received renewed attention lately, with a mention in ex-US president Barack Obama’s new book and a panel discussion on lessons from that time as well as the more recent conflict in Myanmar. On Human Rights Day it is worth looking at one of the most pressing problems in the world: what the international community can, and should, do to protect civilians. Understanding past failures might help in building a better future, especially as millions of people in various parts of the globe are in grave danger. When the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was agreed on this day in 1948, it reflected the hope, in the wake of horrific cruelty and suffering, that never again would anything similar happen. Yet sadly there have been repeated instances since then of violations on a major scale. The United Nations has often been criticised: the determination expressed in its charter “to reaffirm faith in fundamental human r ....