The leading source for credible citizen reporting

Help | Login | Join Allvoices

Mainstream News

This event is older than two months and is no longer active. Some links older than two months could be broken.

Click here to post a new related report

Ministerial Statement on Sri Lanka

Source: Labor Herald

Colombo : Sri Lanka | 2 months ago

0 0

I have looked at Mr Elder's reported remarks and they do not cause me any difficulty. Indeed he has been making the point, as has the Australian Government, that we need to see unimpeded access by international agencies to the camps for internally displaced people.

Reach
Credibility

More News From: Colombo : Sri Lanka

News Stories

Sri Lanka: Rajapakses' incipient cult would shame Chinese communists - ...

News Source: Tamil Net | 2 months ago

Guardian [TamilNet, Tuesday, 15 September 2009, 03:20 GMT] In the second article in two days, UK's Guardian, warned Monday that by making Tamils feel newly repressed Sri Lanka is sowing seeds of future rebellian, noting that "in the months that have...
UN 'concerned' over Sri Lanka camps

News Source: Al Jazeera | 2 months ago

Ban and Rajapaksa spoke by telephone on Monday, talking about human rights issues, political dialogue with the Tamils and alleged accountability for rights abuses committed by both sides during the war. Pascoe said that "a whole range of human rights...
Sri Lanka: 3 Tamil youths arrested in Mathavaachchi

News Source: Tamil Net | 2 months ago

Tamil youths arrested in Mathavaachchi [TamilNet, Monday, 14 September 2009, 13:19 GMT] Criminal Investigation Department (CID) officers took into custody three Tamil youths in the last three days at the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) Mathavaachchi checkpoint,...
UN political chief heading to Sri Lanka

News Source: Charlotte Observer Online | 2 months ago

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is sending the U.N. political chief to Sri Lanka to press the government to step up the release of nearly 300,000 Tamil civilians who have been detained since the South Asian nation's civil war ended in May...Lynn Pascoe...
Top U.N official to visit Sri Lanka, discuss refugees

News Source: Reuters | 2 months ago

The top U.N. political official said on Monday he would travel to Sri Lanka this week to press the government to enable refugees to go home and other issues following its defeat of Tamil guerrillas. Lynn Pascoe, head of the U.N. political affairs...
Australia boosts funds for Sri Lankan displaced

News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation | 2 months ago

Foreign Minister Stephen Smith says Australia will watch the resettlement process and treatment of the displaced closely. "It is now vital to move quickly, more quickly than has been the case to this point, to create the conditions for them to...