By H. L. D. Mahindapala – Despite all the hot air pumped to float the UNHRC Resolution A/HRC/30/L. 29 its future is not guaranteed as the stormy atmospherics which seem to be gathering over the horizon are putting a heavy strain on the stability of the Siri-Wicky regime and, more importantly, its ability to deliver […]

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Shenali D Waduge In 2014 Navi Pillay appointed 3 international experts to investigate Sri Lanka. Martti Ahtisaari, former President of Finland, Dame Silvia Cartwright, former High Court judge of New Zealand, and Asma Jahangir, former President of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. The previous report personally initiated by UNSG Ban Ki Moon became the […]

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Dr Sudath Gunasekara President Senior Citizens Movement Mahanuwara 4.10.2015  Dear all, Now the much hyped UNHCHR Resolution on Sri Lanka is unanimously passed, I feel we are standing on the brim of disaster and perhaps extinction as well, as a sovereign Nation.  No wonder it was unanimously passed as Sri Lanka itself did not object […]

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Dear All, We, Global Sri Lankan Forum contacted his wife and family and made a visit. And following actions have been taken. Appointing  a senior lawyer to follow up the his Appeal – for this we are in contact with Gomin Dayasiri; and a senior lawyer is now being appointed – our initial budget for this is Rs. 300,000.00 Complete […]

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Ranjith Soysa Keerthi Waranakuslsuriya the veteran defence columnist of Sunday Divaina was reporting from Geneva the treacherous role played by the individuals and NGOs et during the sessions of the OHCR for last two weeks. He had been covering the Geneva OHRC sessions for last 10 years and had set a record of 25 years […]

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Courtesy Divaina පුවතක පසුබිම මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලයේ දෙබිඩි පිළිවෙත යේමනයේ යුද අපරාධ චෝදනා විමර්ශනය කළ යුතු යෑයි දක්‌වමින් මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලයට යෝජනාවක්‌ ඉදිරිපත් කළේ නෙදර්ලන්තයයි. යේමන් යුද අපරාධ ගැන සෙවීමට විශේෂඥයන් පිරිසක්‌ යවන ලෙස මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලයෙන් ඉල්ලීමක්‌ද කළේ එම රාජ්‍යයයි. එම යෝජනාවට පෙර යුද අපරාධ සම්බන්ධව වාර්තාවක්‌ මානව හිමිකම් කොමසාරිස්‌වරයා ඉදිරිපත් කර එහි නිර්දේශද ඇතුළත් […]

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by James Blumenthal, Info-Buddhism.com, Oct 8, 2015 Much controversy has been stirred with the establishment of the “new” Nalanda University in Bihar, India. Heavily criticized for neglecting Buddhism, just how much of it has been diverted from the original Nalanda U? Prof James Blumenthal gives a run down on the luminaries that made the original Nalanda […]

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By Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. and Laurent Karila, MD, PhD Paul Brousse University Hospital, Villejuif, France Problematic sexual behaviors have been identified for centuries and Nymphomania has become a controversial subject among the clinicians. Nymphomania is considered as an organic disease, psychological disorder and a legal construct (Groneman, 2001). The term nymphomania resonates with a sense of […]

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