UN tells ICP that Ban Ki-moon Is OT Blocking Alleged War Criminal Silva As His Adviser on Peacekeeping

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HRW’s 676 Page Report Lists Ban Only 4 Times, Soft on UN Inaction in Sudan, Haiti?

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India – Start of 2012 marked by violations of freedom of information in world’s biggest democracy

Reporters Without Borders is concerned about a series of breaches of press freedom and attacks on journalists since the start of the year.

“We call on the central government to respond as quickly as possible to abuses by local authorities and officials towards the press. It is also essential that the authorities scrap their policy of monitoring the Internet, which is disproportionate and jeopardises press freedom,” the organization said.

Unwarranted desire to...

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Tamil refugees slowly return from India

JAFFNA, 11 January 2012 (IRIN) - For Thangamma*, returning to Sri Lanka's once-embattled northern town of Jaffna is nothing short of a pilgrimage. "I waited for two decades to leave India," she said....

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At UN, Ban Has Belatedly Watched "Killing Fields of Sri Lanka," Response UNclear

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Sri Lanka Killing Fields Screening Without Kohona, White Flag Killings Raised

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Sri Lanka – Death threats against newspaper editor

Reporters Without Borders has written an open letter to President Mahinda Rajapaksa urging him to take whatever measures are necessary to protect Frederica Jansz, the editor of The Sunday Leader, and to ensure that those responsible for last week's death threats against her are arrested.

The threatening letter Jansz received on 27 October was prompted by her 2009 interview with Gen. Sarath Fonseka, a former army commander and presidential candidate in 2010,...

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Sri Lanka Team Calls UN Ban "Close," No "Darusman" Report Action For Year?

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In Sri Lanka, anti-government website blocked

New York, October 19, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by reports that access to anti-government news website Lanka eNews has been blocked inside Sri Lanka, according to the site's exiled editor and users inside the country. All three language versions of the site, English, Sinhala, and Tamil, have not been available since Tuesday....

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Ban Admits Lapses, Sri Lanka Says, Writing Out Rights & Sex Violence

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