Geneva: The 47-member United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva began debating a resolution against Sri Lanka on alleged war crimes on Thursday with a vote also expected later. The US-backed resolution urges Colombo to investigate alleged war crimes during the last stage of its military action against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Sri Lanka is strongly lobbying against the resolution moved by the US, France and Norway,...
04:04 PM, Mar 22, 2012
The UN Human Rights Council will on Thursday debate on a US resolution urging Colombo to probe alleged violations during its war with Tamil separatists. Sri Lanka has dismissed the resolution calling it 'ill-timed, ill-conceived and borne out of ignorance'. Do you agree? Join Suhasini Haidar in World View this week to discuss the issue. ...
11:57 AM, Mar 22, 2012
New Delhi: The UN Human Rights Council will on Thursday debate on a US resolution urging Colombo to probe alleged violations during its war with Tamil separatists. The Indian government is facing immense pressure from the DMK and the AIADMK to vote for the resolution. Sources at the Ministry of External Affairs said India will be voting in favour of the proposal. However, Sri Lanka on Tuesday requested India to...
06:52 AM, Mar 22, 2012
Chennai: Stepping up pressure on the UPA government over the issue of US resolution against Sri Lanka at UNHRC on its alleged war crimes, its key ally, DMK, on Monday announced a state-wide fast led by party patriarch M Karunanidhi on March 22. The party's announcement came even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that India was "inclined to" vote in favour of a resolution on Sri Lanka which meets...
02:01 PM, Mar 19, 2012
New Delhi: In a victory for the DMK and the AIADMK, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday said that the government intended to vote in favour of the US-led resolution against Sri lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), but the final draft of the resolution was awaited. "We are still waiting for the final draft of the resolution, but we intend to vote in favour of the...
01:01 PM, Mar 19, 2012
Chennai: With Dravidian parties mounting pressure on the Centre to support a resolution in UNHRC against Sri Lanka for alleged war crimes, External Affairs Minister SM Krishna has said the government will study the draft of the resolution and consult Tamil MPs before taking a call. "The minister is concerned over human rights. Once draft of the resolution is made, India will study it and consult MPs and take a...
10:33 AM, Mar 19, 2012
Colombo: Ethnic Tamil lawmakers in Sri Lanka asked the United Nations Human Rights Council on Thursday to press the government to investigate alleged wartime abuses and share power with the ethnic minority to prevent the country sliding back into violence. Sri Lanka's civil war ended in 2009 with government troops crushing the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels, but there have been lingering accusations that both sides committed war crimes during the...
12:10 AM, Mar 16, 2012
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11:55 PM, Mar 14, 2012
Chennai: Upping the ante against the Congress-led UPA Government over alleged war crime issue concerning Sri Lanka, DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Wednesday said his party would deem it as a betrayal of Tamils if the Centre does not support the US resolution on Sri Lanka. Asked if his party would withdraw support to the UPA Government if New Delhi supported Sri Lanka in the United Nations Human Rights Council...
11:12 PM, Mar 14, 2012
Washington: The United States on Tuesday said that unless Sri Lankan government reconciles with minority Tamils and addresses allegations of war crimes it risks renewed conflict. Thousands of Tamil civilians died in the final months of its civil war that ended in 2009. The US has introduced a draft resolution at the UN Human Rights Council, increasing international pressure on Sri Lanka to conduct an independent investigation. The council in...
07:38 AM, Mar 14, 2012
New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Friday issued notices to Director General of Tamil Nadu Police and Chennai District Magistrate asking them to investigate the death of five suspected burglars in a police encounter. The direction came after the commission received a complaint on the basis of media reports regarding the Chennai encounter on Thursday in which the police killed five persons suspected to be involved in...
01:45 PM, Feb 24, 2012
Ahmedabad Castigating the Narendra Modi government for not placing reports of NHRC on damages and compensation for destruction of religious places before the state assembly, the Gujarat High Court has termed it as a "grave lapse", violative of human rights. The High Court, in its verdict delivered on Wednesday, deplored that no explanation was given by the state government for not placing annual and other reports of the National Human...
02:58 PM, Feb 09, 2012
Washington: The UN's rights body has concluded that France had violated the religious freedom of a 76-year-old Sikh man when he was asked to remove his turban for his ID photograph, a US-based Sikh group has said. United Sikh, a Sikh rights body, had filed a communication on behalf of Ranjit Singh to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in December 2008. Singh, despite his ill-health, has had no...
01:13 PM, Jan 13, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Pollution Control board has issued a notice to the Patel Chest Institute for fluting bio-medical waste disposal rules. The hospital has been given 15 days to reply to the notice and explain its stand. This comes after the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) pulled up the hospital following a CNN-IBN expose. On December 1, CNN-IBN had reported how Delhis top tuberculosis hospital had been putting hundreds...
08:36 AM, Dec 10, 2011
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday night said his view on phased withdrawal of AFSPA from parts of the state is based on logic and not emotion. "I do not want to get into extended public debate on this (revocation of AFSPA issue). My point of view is based on logic, not emotions", Omar told reporters while inaugurating of Data Recovery Center at Gladni Power Station...
10:19 PM, Dec 05, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday sought the Bihar government's stand on a plea for a CBI probe into the police firing on a group of villagers in Forbesganj in June that left five persons dead. A bench of justices RM Lodha and JS Khehar issued notice to the state government, seeking its response to the plea for CBI probe into the incident. The plea was made by a...
01:13 PM, Oct 10, 2011
New Delhi: Hours after Anna Hazare was taken into preventive custody, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Tuesday issued notices to the Union Home Secretary and the Delhi Police Commissioner seeking a report within two weeks on the episode. The Commission notice came this evening after it received a complaint from a human rights activist Anirudhasudhan Chakraborty, who alleged that provisions of Constitution and international human rights conventions were...
06:19 PM, Aug 16, 2011
Chennai: The DMK on Friday knocked on the doors of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to register its protest against the State government's crackdown against its party members over alleged land grab. DMK functionary KS Radhakrishnan complained to the NHRC that the State government had resorted to "action that displayed political bias, vendetta and personal animosity, which despite being brought to the notice of the government" have continued. The...
10:25 AM, Aug 06, 2011
New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has ruled out rape at Lakhimpur Kheri police station and at Bhatta-Parsaul villages. An 800-page interim report on Bhatta-Parsaul says no rapes took place - contrary to Rahul Gandhi's claims. The report, submitted on Monday, also states that farmers hadn't lost their lives in numbers as claimed by the Congress General Secretary. The findings of this NHRC report are a relief for...
08:13 AM, Jun 23, 2011
New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission today said it will send a team for conducting an on-the-spot inquiry into alleged police firing and killing of four persons in Forbesganj in Bihar on June 3. The rights panel has asked its Director General (Investigation) to depute a team to the area in Araria district of the state. Four persons, including a woman and a baby, were killed in police firing...
06:53 PM, Jun 20, 2011
