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Urban India Shines: Without Toilets, Many Homeless

India’s slum population more than doubled, from 43 million in 2001 to 93 million in 2011 in ten years and it is projected to grow at 5% per year, adding nearly two million every year, according to official Government data.

(NEW DELHI, India) - Former International Monetary Fund [IMF] bureaucrat Manmohan Singh was never projected as India’s Prime Minister; he was imposed on 1.2 billion hapless Indians.

Life of a Sri Lanka Tamil Catholic Bishop in Danger

Most Rev Dr Rayappu Joseph and others in danger 'Our Lady of Madhu' and Bishop Rayappu Joseph.

(BRISBANE, Aust.) - This is an urgent appeal to prevent the possible assassination/ ‘disappearance’ of the outspoken Roman Catholic Bishop of Mannar, his fellow Catholic priests in the North and East.

It is also for others who call themselves ‘Civil Society’, the only voices for the Tamil people in that part of Sri Lanka.

A Buddhist Monk and Child Abuse in London

The Monk is likely to be deported to Sri Lanka after he serves his prison sentence, which will be delivered on Monday.

(LONDON dbsjeyaraj.com) - This is a personal journey, which has touched our lives deeply and thus I will not pretend that it is an unbiased account.

I have changed the names of the persons involved to attempt to safeguard the little privacy that they have.

Justice for Genocide: Tamil Americans to Hold UN Rally

146,000 Tamil civilians were lost to the Sri Lankan state during the last eight months of the war.

(NEW YORK CITY) - On May 18, 2012, the Tamil Diaspora of North America will hold an awareness rally and candlelight vigil in front of the United Nations in New York City.

Those gathered will pay their solemn respect to the victims of Tamil Genocide in the Island of Sri Lanka and to observe the Tamil National Mourning Day.

INDIA: A Poor Woman Raped by Police

Salem-News Human rights Ambassador William Gomes contacts officials in India over police rape of married woman.

(HONG KONG) - A police official in India is a suspect in the forcible rape of a poor married woman on 21 April, who was summoned to the police station in Bhadreswar PS after her husband was released from custody in a dacoity case for 45 days.

The suspect was working that night as the Officer-in Charge. He reportedly told the woman she needed to accompany him to his quarters.

Canadian National Stabbed in Paranthan Area

Group of unidentified person have stabbed a Canadian national at Paranthan area.

(KILINOCHI, Sri Lanka) - The Tamil community in Montreal is in shock today after receiving report that one of their member has been stabbed to death in Kumarapuram in Kilinochi, Sri Lanka.

Not In Our Name: Against Religious Extremism in Sri Lanka

Close to 1,000 signatures on Not In Our Name: Against religious extremism in Sri Lanka

(COLOMBO Sri Lanka Groundviews) - The mosque attack at Dambulla by angry Buddhist monks is soiling the reputations of Buddhists everywhere.

It is renewing suspicions that this is a dangerous government that fails to speak out over ethnic strife without exception, when it isn't solely responsible for the suffering due to its own policies.

Tamils for Obama to Clinton: Stop Rape in Sri Lanka

In Sri Lanka sexual violence is being used as a tool of political oppression. Tamil women in the northeast, usually war widows without homes and confined to “transit camps,” are visited and raped at will by Sri Lankan armed forces.

(NEW YORK CITY) - Secretary Clinton spoke to the UN Security Council in September 2009 and urged the members to take a stand against sexual violence used as a tool of war.

In Sri Lanka, armed forces are using it as a tool of political suppression. In a letter to Clinton on May 1, Tamils for Obama requested that Clinton use her influence to stop it.

Genocide in Lyari by Police & Terrorists

Join in a rally for solidarity on Downing Street in London, Sunday 06th May 2012; it goes from 2:00 – 4:00 pm.

(LONDON) - Police and terrorists are carrying out one of the most ferocious and callous armed operation in the Lyari area of Karachi since 27 April 2012.

In this targeted operation more than million Baloch and Sindhi people have been left to suffer and die without food, water, electricity and medicines. Thousands have left Lyari to find security.

Global Tamil Forum stands in solidarity with the Muslims in Sri Lanka

Some Buddhist leaders have said that they intend to demolish 72 structures in the Dambulla area, including the mosque and a Tamil Hindu temple.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Global Tamil Forum (GTF) strongly condemns the Sri Lankan Government’s complicity in the orders for the removal of the Muslim mosque in Dambulla, central Sri Lanka.

GTF is profoundly disturbed by the attacks on the mosque by a minority, yet in their thousands as reported, of extremist Sri Lankan Buddhists led by monks on 20 April 2012...