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Friday, 4th April 2014. By Maheesha Mudugamuwa Institute of South Asian Studies, Singapore Chairman Ambassador Gopinath Pillai, Singapore Foreign Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam and Sri Lanka External Affairs Min ...

Friday, 4th April 2014. By Zacki Jabbar India said yesterday that the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) should, instead of pursuing an international probe into allegations of war crimes against the Sri Lankan ...

Thursday, 03 April 2014 | Pioneer | Provincial polls reiterate support for UPFA The Provincial Council elections in Sri Lanka, which returned a clear victory for the ruling United People's Freedom Alliance, are a strong ...

The Australian March 31, 2014 Editorial LEGITIMATE concerns exist about alleged human rights abuses in Sri Lanka. But they are unlikely to be helped by the UN Human Rights Council’s decision to launch an investigatio ...

HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD 28 March, 2014 India cites reservations on ‘intrusive approach’ favoured by resolution at UN that ‘undermines national sovereignty’ By Elizabeth Rocur elizabeth.i@livemint.com NEW DELHI In a move fr ...

Reclaims Foreign Policy From Narrow Political Interests Indrani Bagchi, TNN | Mar 27, 2014 UN launched an inquiry into war crimes allegedly committed by both Sri Lankan state forces and Tamil rebels during their conflic ...

By Manmohan Bahadur Published: 01st April 2014 Good news for a change! The Indian foreign office finally saw reason and abstained from voting in the United Nations Human Rights Commission on March 27 on the US-sponsor ...