In moments of reflection during the silences that briefly emerge between the noises of my work? between the crackle and fire of guns and bombs in a war zone and the torrents and thunder of rains and winds in a disaster zone, I try and get moments of meditation going so I can re-balance myself […]

If there is one absolute justification for the media to publish or air horrific images of war, of inhumanity, of senseless killing it would be in the hope of urging to moral action a jaded society. The images of war can often serve as a catalyst for moral action. They can help disclose the […]

An article from the Golden Peace Support Group forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission
During the war in Bosnia, the world was horrified by stories of war babies as women were the prime target of marauding soldiers who were out to change the demography of the land. A similar undercurrent with the aid of […]

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A film featuring an extended version of the Channel 4 video showing evidence of alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka will be screened at the Palais de Nations, Geneva this Friday (3) on the margins of the Human Rights Council sessions.
Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields will be shown at 11:00 in Room 22 of the building […]

Women accessing legal aid in Vavunativu

When I listened to Sri Lanka’s External Affairs Minister G.L.Peiris speak on April 22,2011  at the press conference in Colombo, on the UN panel report on alleged war crimes in the last stages of Sri Lanka’s civil war I was chilled. Indeed it took be back in history 4 years […]