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Michelle de Kretser: The urban jungle
Good interview with Michelle de Kretser - anyone not yet familiar with her work might feel like trying some out after reading this well written interview by Boyd Tonkin"The best stories lodge in the memory and return...Sri Lankan government bars independant coverage on war casualties
"The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns the actions of government officials in denying photojournalists access to report on casualties of the latest violence between the Sri Lankan Army and the...Sri Lanka: NESoHR Chairman Fr. Karunaratnam killed in DPU attack
"Rev. Father M X Karunaratnam, the chairman of the NorthEast Secretariat on Human Rights (NESoHR), was killed in a Claymore attack carried out by a Deep Penetration Unit (DPU) of the Sri Lanka Army on Sunday,...IFJ: Stop the War on Journalists in Sri Lanka!
27/03/2008The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today sent a joint letter to the President of Sri Lanka voicing the concerns from over 30 journalists’ associations and press freedom and human...ICRC: Hospitals in northern Sri Lanka face increasing challenges
ICRC Operational update on Sri Lanka (17-04-2008).The limited number of staff available to care for routine cases alongside war casualties has become a critical issue for several hospitals in northern Sri Lanka. In addition, the lack of regular deliveries of supplies from the...Watch List on Children and Armed Conflict - Sri Lanka report
April 14, 2008, New York- There is virtually no safety for children in Sri Lanka as the brutal armed conflict there escalates. Every day the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE), the Government armed forces, and...
Wild elephants, the unlikely victims of the war in Sri Lanka?
In any conflict situation the most affected are the weakest and most vulnerable. The environment gets even lesser attention and silently suffer equally or more as this Reuters story covers on the wild elephants... EU warns Sri Lanka over deteriorating human rights
European Union one of the largest trading partner and the second largest for garments export warned Sri Lanka of losing preferential import tariffs if the human rights record to get worse. The Reuters news story on... Eric Shipton: Mapping the Blank
"Eric Shipton: Mapping the Blank The territory west of the Shaksgam river in northern Pakistan—the Sarpo Laggo and Shimshal valleys, the Baltoro, Biafo, Hispar, and Braldu glaciers, and the Aghil range—is Shipton country, severely contoured, and with the highest...Paper Tigers
"Ninety percent of the Sri Lankan Tamils living in Canada entered the country as Refugees in fear of the atrocities of the state machinery"Opps forgot about that did we in our rush to outlaw the Tamil Tigers.
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