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, par AHRC
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-212-2014 December,18, 2014 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN : The AHRC calls upon the Government and the United Nations to ensure impartial inquiry into the massacre of the children and the associated security failures
The Pakistan (…)
, by KUMAR Vijaya
The 79th Anniversary of Sri Lanka’s oldest political party, the Lanka Samasamaja party (LSSP) falls on December 18th. The party of NM, Colvin, Leslie and Bernard not only played a major role in the anti-imperialist struggle but was also responsible for fighting for and obtaining many of the (…)
We, the seventeen tribes of lndigenous Peoples of the Dulangan Monobo, Subnnen, Togakaolo, Mandaya, Teduray, Lombangian, Mornanwa, Ubo, Uvo Menuvu, Bonwaon, Higaonon, Tinananen, Kulomanen, Matigsalog, T’boli, trumenen ne Menuvu and B’laan from the different points in Mindanao, gathered on the (…)
, by POTHMULLA Lahiru
Apart from the two candidates one from the ruling United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) and the other from the common opposition contesting at the presidential election next month, Left Front candidate Duminda Nagamuwa could be considered as the third in line to steal the attention in the race. (…)
, by SANTOS Soliman, Jr
This is a much condensed as well slightly updated version of a longer paper “Bangsamoro Basic Law: Step Forward on a Longer Road to Peace.” These are written as Congress has started its deliberations on the proposed BBL that seeks to establish a new autonomous political entity called (…)
, by KARUNARATNE Vickramabahu (“Bahu”)
The Nava Sama Samaja Pakshaya (New Same Society Party), the Trotskyist political party in Sri Lanka attached to the Fourth International, celebrates its 36th Anniversary on 30 December 2014. It was formed through the expulsion from the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP) of the Vama Sama Samaja (…)
, by KADIRGAMAR Ahilan
Sri Lanka is facing a crucial election, possibly its most important since 1956 when the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) came to power. For the first time since S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike split from the United National Party (UNP), the two-party system may be reconfigured as members of the two elite (…)
, by ARIYAWANSHA Niranjala , GUNARATNAM Kumar, INDRAJITH Saman, SUMANAPALA Chamara
Following his recent return to the country from Australia, Frontline Socialist Party (FSP) leading member Kumar Gunaratnam has granted a number of interviews to Sri Lankan media. ESSF is posting coverage of Gunaratnam’s return to help readers get a better understanding of the FSP, which is (…)
, by VANAIK Achin
There are numerous reasons why the 2014 general elections to India’s lower house of parliament, the Lok Sabha, constituted a post-independence landmark event. But the most important is that it signifies for the first time ever the replacement of the Indian National Congress by the (…)
Rajapaksa, the president who would be king, subverted every democratic institution to serve his personal ends. It took a coalition of ethnic and religious minorities and a substantial section of the Sinhala majority to end his dreams of political immortality.
Sri Lanka’s seventh presidential (…)
, by ANAND Javed
In its most benevolent interpretation, Hindutva is the ideology that proclaims that India is, should be, a Hindu rashtra (nation) where the status of religious minorities should depend entirely on Hindu goodwill. Though not the same thing, Hindutva belongs to the same family as the ideology of (…)
, by FERNANDO Ruki
It’s now 50 days since Sri Lanka’s new President took oaths on 9th January 2015. This is an attempt to reflect on the first 50 days of the new Presidency. It’s not meant to be comprehensive assessment of the 50 days, but a reflection based on my personal experiences, what I’ve seen and heard in (…)
, by Correspondent(s)
PESHAWAR: Although politicians who contested by-polls in PK-95, Lower Dir-II earlier this month may tell a different story, women voters have confirmed they were not allowed to vote during the elections.
Around 12 women from the constituency approached Peshawar High Court on Monday, through a (…)
, by CNDP (India)
Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace(CNDP), India
We are shocked at the level of jingoism being peddled by the ministers of the Modi government, members of the ruling BJP and sections of the mainstream media in India over the recent action by the Indian army in Manipur. (…)
, by AHRC
Amidst claims and counter claims related to the recent militant attack on the Indian Army, as well as a retaliatory strike against militant groups by the Indian Army, lives have been lost in Manipur. The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) condemns the use of force with impunity by state and (…)
, by The Daily Star
Free thinkers have been repeatedly targeted by extremist groups throughout Bangladesh and it appears that the trend set in the past on handling such issues is discouraging.
In the last 16 years, deadly attacks aiming to kill were carried out on at least five such men including the likes of (…)
, by TAUE Tomihisa
Below is the Peace Declaration issued on Aug. 9, 2015, by Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue on the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city.
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At 11:02 a.m., on the 9th August 1945, a single atomic bomb instantly reduced Nagasaki to a ruin.
A vast amount of (…)
, by ARIANE Zely
“‘West Papuans are constant victims, they are raped, killed everywhere. The human rights of the West Papuan people have been trampled on by the US, Britain, Australia, and Indonesia… Why am I in the area of Freeport? Because of slaughter for the sake of slaughter, because of gold and copper. The (…)
, by CPI (ML) Liberation
Deepening Crisis, Growing Mass Unrest, And A Great Victory against Modi’s Landgrab Fiat
The BJP has all along been keen on invoking and appropriating the legacies of some leaders of the Congress. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Lal Bahadur Shastri are two such key names. Building the world’s (…)
, by GUNATILLEKE Nadira
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is a non-racist who even signed an agreement with LTTE Leader Prabhakaran. Nobody has the right to say that he should implement the hybrid special court. The war could have been prevented if he won the 2005 Presidential election which he lost because the Tamil (…)
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