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India Concerned Over Resolutions at UNHRC

Sri Lanka is one of the countries against which a resolution is expected to be presented at the ongoing UNHRC session.

(GENEVA) - India is concerned that the recent trend of country specific resolutions may well weaken constructive dialogue and cooperative approach which has prevailed so far in the UN Human Rights Council.

Sri Lanka is one of the countries against which a resolution is expected to be presented at the ongoing UNHRC session and Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe had said this week that Sri Lanka is hopeful of India’s support against the resolution.

Release Abhay Sahoo: Free India

Abhay Sahoo reminds us that the spirit of Gandhi, Marx or Ambedkar is not dead yet. It is only from such spirits and energies of the emerging freedom fighters that we can generate hopes for a new world.

(New Delhi, India) - I do not know whether we won the freedom of this subcontinent called India because of Gandhi or Ambedkar.

While thousands of people worked selflessly for the freedom that you and I enjoy today, and often take it for granted, without realising that this freedom is fast eroding under our own feet...

Sri Lanka: A Two-Act Drama Unfolding in Colombo

Old father clock is grinding forward with determination and the Rajapakses are with their backs to the wall.

(NOIDA, India) - The large and quite unexpected hike in all prices that Sri Lanka woke up to in the first week of February set off protest movements that are growing and could swell into something very serious.

Then, the government unleashed a wave of street protests against “the imperialist plot to destabilise Sri Lanka and undermine its sovereignty” as the UNHCR sessions opened in Geneva.

Occupy Salem Forum: Bhutan`s Gross National Happiness - Slated for March 7

Occupy Salem is the local manifestation of the international Occupy Movement.

(SALEM) - Gross National Happiness, rather than Gross National Product (GNP), is the national goal of the small Himalayan country of Bhutan.

Occupy Salem member Laurie Dougherty recently visited Bhutan and will present what she learned about this remarkable concept in an exclusive presentation on March 7 at 7 p.m. in the Oregon PeaceWorks office.

`India Should Raise UN Report on Lanka Rights Violations`: CPI

D. Raja said the international community was shocked to witness such "war crimes and gross violations of human rights" committed during the civil war in Sri Lanka.

(DELHI, India) - The Communist Party of India on Saturday demanded that India should raise the issue of the United Nations report on the last phase of the civil war in Sri Lanka.

The conflict is a hotbed of allegations of human rights violations by the Army, during the meeting of UN Human Rights Commission at Geneva.

Manmohan Singh`s `Thinking Segment` May Put Millions More at Risk

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s ‘mask of sanity’ dropped a few days ago for making two wild, senseless, and patently unscientific assertions

(CHENNAI, India) - American psychologist Dr. Harvey Cleckley, professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Medical College of Georgia, wrote ‘The Mask of Sanity’ in 1941.

In this book Dr. Cleckley talks of psychopathic personalities, humans that are without conscience; outwardly they don’t differ from ordinary men and women but as a recent article says that a brain scan can reveal psychopathic personality.

INDIA: Police Connive with Child Traffickers

Salem-News.com Eye on the World Report.

(SAYDABAD, Bangladesh) - A girl in India is kidnapped a second time by the child trafficking criminal syndicate in Munshipura.

The girl, who was once rescued by human rights activists from the clutches of child traffickers has been threatened, kidnapped, raped and forced to file false statements in the local court.

INDIA: Police Torture and Retaliation

Salem-News.com Eye on the World Report.

(SAYDABAD, Bangladesh) - An Indian citizen named Abdul Karim Molla, son of Mr. Yunus Molla, made the 'criminal' mistake of bribing a soldier so he could smuggle two pieces of leather across the Pakistan border.

An officer unexpectedly arrived when the soldier was preparing to let Karim cross the border. Unaware of what he should do, the soldier began beating Karim.

A Criminal Monk To The Police Commission

It is clear that in this (as in any other) opportunistic alliance between politician and monk, it was the politician who reaped the long-term advantages.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - The recent appointment of Elle Gunawanse to the Police Commission shows just how unacceptable the new framework for independent bodies is.

Gunawanse was a firebrand Buddhist monk who played an important role in the events of July 1983, that led to the Murders of 1000's of Tamils.

Will Another Documentary on Sri Lanka`s Genocide Impact the Geneva Human Rights Session?

Sinhalese journalists recoil with sharp tongues, yet they also speak truth about war crimes...

(SALEM) - Those responsible for ‘Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields’ will telecast another documentary in the first week of March to coincide with United Nations Human Rights Council sessions in Geneva.

UK based Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow, who had presented ‘Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields’ is also involved in the second project.