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Demand Accountability from Sri Lanka

India should assert leadership at the UN Human Rights Council, and insist on concrete answers and actions.

(NEW DELHI, India) - The time has come for India to be bolder and more confident on human rights at the international level. Its growing stature in international affairs demands this leadership position.

The current session of the UN Human Rights Council presents India with an excellent opportunity to move towards a foreign policy that truly befits the world’s largest democracy.

South Africa: Govt, Sri Lanka Discuss Sustainable Political Settlement

Sri Lanka will implement its LLRC and an impartial, inclusive and transparent mechanism to deal decisively with questions of accountability and justice.

(PRETORIA, South Africa BUA News) - International Relations and Cooperation Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, hosted her counterpart from Sri Lanka, Gamini Lakshman Peiris, on Monday, to discuss bilateral relations and the peace process in that country.

Peres briefed Nkoana-Mashabane on plans to implement the recommendations of the Sri Lankan Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) relating to human rights...

Congress without Conscience and The Broken Safety Net: Part Two in a Series

Part One: Days of Awareness and About The Money: Part 1

(CLERMONT, FL) - This week in D.C. thousands of Jewish and Christian AIPAC lobbyists have inundated the Capitol to push Congress to vote YES on Senate Resolution 380, introduced by Zionist Senators Lieberman, Casey and Graham, who call for a military attack on Iran.

War is the ultimate failure of intelligence and so far 44 members of Congress have co-sponsored this AIPAC bill.

Women in Mexican Politics

“I wanted Zihuatanejo to have many schools, students and electricity” - Dona Cari

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - When Caritina Galeana Gomez was born, women did not have the right to vote and the Institutional Revolutionary Party that dominated Mexico for much of the 20th century wasn’t even created.

Born just before the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution in 1910, Dona Cari, as she is known locally, grew up in the Costa Grande of Guerrero state before a highways and tourist resorts attracted people from all over the world.

The True Story Behind the Egypt NGO Deal

“Surprise, surprise – operating without a license, the foreign NGOs worked on CIA plans for Egypt’s partition”

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - The ultimate goal of the raids on Egypt’s NGOs and the blocking of its operations and workers on the ground is to set the stage for rigging the looming presidential elections”

An official at Cairo airport has revealed last Thursday that the US military plane which arrived in Cairo to take the 15 NGO workers, including 8 Americans, out of the country was “secured” by a “supreme Egyptian authority.”

More than 100 Congressmen Demand AG Eric Holder`s Resignation

Smuggling guns through U.S. federal channels to Mexican drug cartels just doesn't sit well with people.

(WASHINGTON DC) - A handful of media groups are reporting over 100 members of Congress calling for the resignation of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.

It stems from Holder's tragic decision to have the ATF smuggle deadly weapons to Mexican drug cartels, in the agency's 'Fast and Furious' operation.

Tamils Welcome the Proposed US Resolution on Sri Lanka

Joint Statement by British Tamils...

(GENEVA) - We welcome the proposed resolution by the Government of the United States of America at the 19th Session of the UN Human Rights Council towards holding all parties to the conflict accountable during the last phases of the war in Sri Lanka.

The resolution offers a glimpse of hope for those affected by the conflict and sets in motion appropriate steps that could assist in long term peace and reconciliation in post-war Sri Lanka.

SRI LANKA: Needed -- A Ministry of Truth

"... partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods." - Huntington's theory

(GENEVA) - The operation in Geneva has been accomplished, President Rajapaksa's critical political situation has been changed.

Now who will talk for a father of two; an innocent fisherman killed by a senior official with one of worst State institutions, which seems dependent on unlawful tactics to kill innocent civilians?

Left Takes to Streets over Rights Breach

The State General Secretary also opined that CPM, would join the chorus of Western Countries moving a resolution against Sri Lanka for its failure on reconciliation, at Geneva.

(CHENNAI, India) - The CPM staged a demonstration in front of the Lankan embassy here, urging the Centre to pressurise the neighbouring country to bring about a political solution, on Monday.

Speaking to reporters, G Ramakrishnan said that the Lankan forces used heavy artillery in the last phase of the war with the LTTE. Lankan Tamils who raised their voice were deported in white vans, lodged in prison and tortured.

APN, J Street and NIF Condemn Attack on Obama for Meeting with Supporters of the Three Groups

This campaign to drive a partisan political wedge through the heart of Jewish communal support for Israel should stop...

(WASHINGTON DC) - Americans for Peace Now, J Street and the New Israel Fund today issued their first-ever joint statement condemning the unseemly attack on President Obama by the Wall Street Journal’s Bret Stephens. Stephens focuses on the President's association with our organizations and some of our key supporters.

This is simply the latest in a litany of partisan attacks on the President for standing for and with the values that are actually at the very heart of the Jewish community.