Category: Statements

SRI LANKA: The proposed Anti-Terrorism Bill amounts to a parallel Constitution and a Criminal Procedure Code

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March 29, 2023 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: The proposed Anti-Terrorism Bill amounts to a parallel Constitution and a Criminal Procedure Code Three major ‘strategies’ have been used in this draft bill on anti-terrorism 2023.which create very great confusion about the meaning of the contents of the proposed law and its implications. Three ‘strategies’ The first of these strategies is not to define the meaning of terrorism. The meaning of the key word of this document is thus kept wake so that many different and contradictory…

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SRI LANKA: The criteria for the selection of the new Inspector General of Police

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March 20, 2023 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: The criteria for the selection of the new Inspector General of Police The debate on who should be the next Inspector General of Police (IGP) is part of the public debate these days. The focus of this debate is more on who should be the ‘person’ rather than what is the expectation from the new IGP in terms of the challenges faced on the one hand concerning the rule of law system in Sri Lanka, and on…

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SRI LANKA: A statement on the occasion of International Women’s Day, 8 March 2023

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March 08, 2023 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: A statement on the occasion of International Women’s Day, 8 March 2023 The International Women’s Day is observed on March 8th to acknowledge the tremendous work done by the feminist movements worldwide. This year’s (2023) theme, “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality”, highlights the role of innovative technology in promoting gender equality and meeting the health and developmental needs of women and girls. Innovation and technology have the potential to empower women and girls and help realise their…

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Letter in Support of Alan Dettlaff

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rory – January 24, 2023 As members of the Social Work Action Network-International to express our concern aboutthe recent removal of Professor Alan Dettlaff from his post as Dean of the Graduate Collegeof Social Work, at the University of Huston.SWAN-I is a network of social workers and social work organisations from across the globecommitted to social work for social justice. Our international network draws togethernationally based groups of social work researchers, educators and practitioners campaigningfor a more just world.Professor Dettlaff is a leading scholar and political activist whose work on…

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Unchecked impunity for crimes against media workers in South Asia:

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From: the IFJ’s monthly media bulletin for South Asia’s Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) In FocusUnchecked impunity for crimes against media workers in South Asia: Despite promises of reform, protection and justice, journalists and media workers in South Asia face increasing violence, harassment, legal threats and killings. The majority of cases do not reach South Asia’s legal systems, and even cases with a strong political will can languish behind systemic inadequacy, scapegoating or a failure to materialise rhetoric. In 2022, the IFJ documented the killings of eleven South Asian journalists for their work. Not…

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இலங்கை அரசுக்கு தனது அதிருப்தியைத் தெரிவிக்கும் ஆசியா கம்யூன்.

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இனவெறி, மதவெறி மற்றும் ஊழல் நிறைந்த ராஜபக்க்ஷ ஆட்சியை இலங்கை மக்கள் விரட்டியடித்தனர். நூறு நாட்களுக்கும் மேலான மக்களின் தொடர் போராட்டத்தினால் இந்த அரசு விரட்டியடிக்கப்பட்டது. இந்தப் போராட்டத்தின் திரிபுபடுத்தப்பட்ட விளைவாக புதிய ஜனாதிபதியின் நியமனம் தற்போதுள்ள பாராளுமன்றத்திடம் ஒப்படைக்கப்பட்டிருந்தது. இப் பாராளுமன்றத்தில் பெரும்பான்மையானோர் ராஜபக்க்ஷ ஆதரவாளர்கள். ரணில் விக்ரமசிங்க, நாடாளுமன்றத்தில் தனக்கென தனி ஆசனத்தை மட்டும் வைத்துக் கொண்டு தோற்கடிக்கப்பட்ட ராஜபக்ஷ ஆட்சியின் பிரதிநிதியாக இருந்த அவர் பாராளுமன்றத்தில் 134 வாக்குகளைப் பெற்று 21 யூலை 2022 அன்று இலங்கையின் 8வது ஜனாதிபதியாக நியமிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளார். அவர் ஜனாதிபதியாகப் பதிவியேற்று 24 மணித்தியாலங்களுக்குள் 22 யூலை 2022 அன்று அதிகாலையில் கொழும்பு, காலிமுகத்திடலில் தங்கியிருந்த ஆர்ப்பாட்டக்காரர்கள் மீது கொடூரமான தாக்குதலை ஆரம்பித்துள்ளார். இலங்கை அரசாங்கத்தின் இராணுவம் மற்றும் பொலிசாரின் இந்த மனிதாபிமானமற்ற தாக்குதலை ஆசியா கம்யூன் முற்றுமுழுதாகக்…

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Yemen: Journalist killed in a car bomb

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Originally From: https://www.ifj.org/fr/salle-de-presse/nouvelles/detail/category/press-releases/article/yemen-journalist-killed-in-a-car-bomb.html Brussels 21 June 2022 – Saber al-Haidari, a former Yemeni journalist working for foreign media outlets, was killed on 15 June after a device planted on his car exploded while he was driving home in the southern city of Aden, Yemen. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its local affiliate, the Yemeni Journalists Syndicate (YJS) strongly condemn this killing and call for justice in the face of widespread impunity. According to media reports, the car blast which killed the 40-year-old Al-Haidari also injured other passengers in the car.…

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අරගලය දිවි සැරිය කරගත්…..ලීනස් සහෝදරය….ඔබට සුභ ගමන් !

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කම්කරු, ගොවි, ධීවර ප්‍රමුඛ සකලවිධ පහල මාලයේ පීඩිත ජනයාගේ අයිතින් වෙනුවෙන් සිය ජීවිත කාලයම කැප කළ ලීනස් ජයතිලක නම් වූ මහා සමාජ ක්‍රියාධරයා, විශිෂ්ඨ වාමාංශික නායකයා අප හැරදා සිය දිවිසැරිය නිමකර ඇත. පමුණුගම, උස්වැටකෙයියාව ග්‍රාමයේ සම්භාවනීය පවුලක ජන්ම ලාභය ලැබූ ලීනස්, උස්වැටකෙයියාව, රෝමාණු කතෝලික පිරිම පාසලේ අධ්‍යාපනයේ මුල් අත්පොත් තබන්ට විය. මූලික අධ්‍යාපනය හමාර කිරීමෙන් අනතුරුව කතොලික පූජකවරය අරමුණු ගනිමින් අම්පිටිය ජාතික දෙව්සත්හලට ඇතුල් විය. කතෝලික පූජකවරය ගෞරවණීය ලෙස අවසන් කළ ද ඔහුගේ මූලික අභිප්‍රාය වූයේ සමාජයේ පහල මාලයේ තැලෙන පොඩිවෙන ජනයාගේ විමුක්තිය වෙනුවෙන් කැපවීම ය. ධනවාදී සමාජ ක්‍රමය තුළ…

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යුද්ධය නවතනු! රුසියාව යුක්රේනයෙන් පිටවෙනු!
නේටෝව එපා! ගෝලීය යුද විරෝධී ව්‍යාපාරයක් සඳහා!

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නීල් විජේතිලක සහ කේ ගෝවින්දන්සමාජවාදී ජනතා සංසදයකොළඹ – 2022 පෙබරවාරි 26 යුද්ධය නවතනු! රුසියාව යුක්රේනයෙන් පිටවෙනු!නේටෝව එපා! ගෝලීය යුද විරෝධී ව්‍යාපාරයක් සඳහා! රුසියානු හමුදා යුක්රේනය ආක්‍රමණය කර එහි අගනුවර වන කියෙව් දෙසට ගමන් කරමින් සිටිති. 200 ක් පමණවන මිය ගිය අය අතර ළමුන් සහ සිවිල් වැසියන් ද වන අතර 1,115 දෙනෙක් පමණ තුවාල ලැබූ බව වාර්තාවේ. රුසියානු ජනාධිපති පුටින් කියා සිටින්නේ මෙම යුද්ධය නැගෙනහිර යුක්රේනයේ බිහි කළ රුසියන් බස කථා කරන සමූහාණ්ඩුවල ජනතාව ආරක්ෂා කිරීමටත් ”‍මත්ද්‍රව්‍යවලට ඇබ්බැහි වූවන් සහ නව නාසිවරුන්”‍ ලෙස පුටින් හඳුන්වන දක්ෂිණාංශික, බටහිර ගැති, යුක්‍රේන රජය ඉවත්…

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