Tag: UNHRC

The extent to which the resources and time of the UNHRC have been spent on the unwarranted campaign against Sri Lanka indicates a threat to sovereign states from hegemonic forces, Gunawardena said.

The resolution will include the critical observations and harsh prescriptions of the UN’s Human Rights High Commissioner, Michele Bachelet.

Accountability cannot be established in the absence of credible and verifiable data says security expert Prof.Rohan Gunaratna

E.Tendayi Achiume, a Zambia-born Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles, had said that the UNHRC needed to act against the US as racism there had become “a human rights crisis of existential proportions.”

While pointing an accusing finger at the weaker nations, the West turns a blind eye to its own violations

Sri Lanka is looking for support from about 15 of the 47 members of the UNHRC for its defiant stand against violations of its sovereignty by the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights

A new UN report published on Wednesday warns that the failure of Sri Lanka to address past violations has significantly heightened the risk of human rights violations being repeated. It highlights worrying trends over the past year, such as deepening impunity, increasing militarization of governmental functions, ethno-nationalist rhetoric, and intimidation of civil society.

While a UNHRC resolution is not binding, countries could use it to arm-twist the targeted State into submission or wrest political and economic concessions from it.

While the Tamils have upped the ante considerably, Colombo has resolved to stick to its stand against foreign interference

The Tamils' radical demands will only harden the stand of the majority community, whose views no democratic country can ignore, a top Sri Lankan official said.