Posts Tagged ‘Speak Out’
On this Day: May 30, 2009By Editor - May 30th, 2010 |
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UN Officials complicit in aiding, abetting GoSL’s Nazi-type crimes – Prof. Boyle: Pointing to a report in the On this Day: May 30, 2009 – French paper Le Monde, which quoted Vijay Nambiar, chief of Staff of UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, as telling UN representatives in Sri Lanka that the UN should “keep a low profile” and play a “sustaining role” that was “compatible with the government,” Francis Boyle, professor of International Law at the University of Illinois College of Law said Saturday that both the United Nations Organization itself and its highest level officials are guilty of aiding and abetting Nazi-type crimes against the Tamils by the Government of Sri Lanka, in violation of international law. “Unless this Momentum is reversed and all these U.N. Officials fired, the United Nations Organization shall follow the League of Nations into the “ashcan” of History,” Boyle said. Click here for full article |
Article 28: The Right to A Fair and Free WorldBy Editor - May 30th, 2010 |
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Article 28: Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized. Great human rights activists have taught us the concept of indivisibility, and how connected we really are. Our freedom is connected to the freedom of another; no one can be free, if one man is in chains. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Injustice anywhere, is a threat to justice everywhere,” Nelson Mandela once said, “Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.” Both these quotes indicate that one man cannot be free, if another man is not. That is not what freedom is. |
On this Day: May 29, 2009By Editor - May 29th, 2010 |
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UN concealed carnage to keep Sri Lanka goodwill – Le Monde: The United Nations deliberately hid the number of Tamil civilians being killed during the Sri Lankan government offensive against the LTTE, according to a report in the French daily Le Monde. The report, translated by FRANCE 24, quotes several UN sources alleging that high-ranking UN officials, including Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, chose to keep silent about the high civilian death toll so as to avoid offending the Sri Lankan government and maintain UN operations in the country. A low figure was even leaked by the UN in mid-May, when it was known that the real toll was approaching 20,000 dead. Click here to read full article |
Article 27: The Right to Participate in Cultural LifeBy Editor - May 29th, 2010 |
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Article 27: (1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits. (2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author. |
On this Day : May 28, 2009By Editor - May 28th, 2010 |
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Access to Sri Lanka detention camps ‘not satisfactory’ – ICRC : The International Committee of the Red Cross has been barred from visiting internment camps in Sri Lanka to check on people held by the Colombo government, the head of the organisation has said. Jakob Kellenberger has asked the Sri Lankan government for access to all its camps, which are ringed by barbed wire and soldiers, to check on conditions of hundreds of thousands of Tamil civilians. He pointed out the present situation is “not satisfactory,” Swissinfo reported. The ICRC, which usually refrains from publicly criticizing governments, is mandated under the Geneva Conventions to aid victims of war, Canadian Press reported. Click here to read full article |
Article 26: Right to EducationBy Editor - May 27th, 2010 |
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Article 26: (1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit. (2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace. (3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. |
On this Day: May 27, 2009By Editor - May 27th, 2010 |
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Acute shortage of essential food items in Jaffna: Residents of Jaffna peninsula are experiencing an acute shortage of essential food commodities including wheat flour and sugar, sources in Jaffna said. Jaffna Government Agent (GA), in a press release Tuesday night, said that arrangements are being made to get down wheat flour from Trincomalee and sugar from Colombo. Click here to read full article |
On this Day: May 26, 2009By Editor - May 26th, 2010 |
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Sri Lanka accused of ‘ethnic cleansing’ of Tamil areas – paper: “Aid officials, human rights campaigners and politicians claim Tamils have been driven out of areas in the north-east of the country by killings and kidnappings carried out by pro-government militias. They say the government has simultaneously encouraged members of the Sinhalese majority in the south to relocate to the vacated villages,” Telegraph, UK, said, adding that according to an aid worker the recent killings in Trincomalee “were part of a strategy to drive out Tamils.” Click here to read full article |
Article 25: Food and Shelter for AllBy Editor - May 26th, 2010 |
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Article 25: (1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control. (2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection. |
On this Day: May 25, 2009By Editor - May 25th, 2010 |
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Elderly IDP deaths escalate – Coronor: “More elders die in transit camps located for Vanni displaced persons located in Vavuniyaa due to lack of proper facilities. Hence I appeal to the authorities to send elders displaced from Vanni direct to Homes for the Elderly instead of IDP camps. This would prevent more deaths of elders in IDP camps,” said the Chettikulam Inquirer into Sudden Deaths, Mr.E. Sahul Hameed, media reports said. Click here to read full article |
