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| Lasantha Wickrematunge Memorial Lecture 2013: Presentations, photos and video |
| 2013-09-30 |
The Lasantha Wickrematunge Memorial Lecture held recently featured, as noted on the website of Sri Lankans Without Borders (SLWB) website,
“…leading journalists from Canada and Sri Lanka [in] a panel discussion to examine press freedom in Sri Lanka in commemoration of the life and times of leading Sri Lankan journalist and human right activist Lasantha Wickrematunge.”
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| Rights watchdog urges Commonwealth ministers to press Sri Lanka on human rights |
| 2013-09-30 |
An international right s watchdog has urged the Commonwealth foreign ministers who are meeting in New York today to apply pressure on Sri Lanka to address country's human rights abuses.
New York based Human Rights Watch (HRW)asked the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG), a group of foreign ministers from eight Commonwealth countries to make the human rights situation in Sri Lanka a priority at its meeting on Friday, September 27 on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly currenly on goin
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| MR says Pillay's report highly prejudiced |
| 2013-09-30 |
President Mahinda Rajapaksa said that the people of Sri Lanka believe that UN Rights Chief Navi Pillay had written her report even before she visited Sri Lanka.
“People of Sri Lanka think that she (Pillay) has written the report before she came here ... when she met me she didn't complain about anything .... This is a democratic country, they (the people) can say anything ....,” the President said in an interview with Al-Jazeera television.
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| UK notes concerns on CHOGM |
| 2013-09-30 |
Britain has noted that there are concerns over the decision to hold the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Sri Lanka.
Britain’s Minister of State for the Commonwealth, Hugo Swire MP, said this in a statement on his recent meeting with Commonwealth Foreign Affairs Ministers in New York.
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| Human impact is ‘unequivocal’ |
| 2013-09-30 |
World leaders must now respond to an “unequivocal” message from climate scientists and act with policies to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the United Nations Secretary-General urged on Friday.
Introducing a major report from a high-level UN panel of climate scientists, Ban Ki-moon said, “The heat is on. We must act.”
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| Lanka seeks NAM support |
| 2013-09-30 |
Sri Lanka has sought the support of the Non Aligned Movement (NAM) to collectively oppose human rights being used as a political tool at the UN, and that the same standards of judgment be applied to all countries.
External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris urged NAM to play a role in ensuring having issues judged on its merits by the international community as a whole, the External Affairs Ministry said.
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| Indian External Minister to visit SL |
| 2013-09-30 |
It is reported that Indian External Minister Salman Khurshid would be visiting Sri Lanka soon in order to discuss the matter regarding Indian fishermen who are in the custody of Sri Lanka.
According to The Hindu newspaper, this was revealed during a meeting of Indian fishermen with Union Minister of State for the Prime Minister's office in India, V. Narayanaswamy. The fishermen had requested the minister to intervene in the release of Indian fishermen and their boats from Sri Lankan custody.
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| Government firm on land powers |
| 2013-09-30 |
Sri Lankan provincial councils, including the Tamil-dominated Northern, will not have discretion over land and police matters and they will have to operate within the existing limits of power, the Press Trust of India quoted a government spokesman as saying.
“Provincial councils would have to operate within the existing limits (of powers),” Minister of Information and government spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella said.
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