Fri Mar 20, 2009
The civil war in Sri Lanka has attracted greater international scrutiny within the past week, with UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay suggesting that both the government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) may have committed war crimes:
Tue Mar 17, 2009
Journalists from across all services of the BBC have resolved to hold two one-day strikes next month, prompted in large part by plans to “offshore” operations for the BBC World Service’s Hindi, Nepali, and Urdu language programming to Delhi, Kathmandu, and Islamabad. From the Guardian:
Sun Mar 15, 2009
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Via Reuters (and Sadia Abbas), some breaking news from Pakistan:
Sat Mar 14, 2009
Everything old appears to be new again in Pakistan. The latest: government bans on independent television news coverage.
Fri Mar 13, 2009
In recent weeks, human rights violations in India have slowly been seeping into the mainstream Western consciousness — and not just because of Sergeant Srinivas. A flurry of media stories and human rights reports draws attention not only to particular extrajudicial killings, disappearances, and incidents involving torture at the hands of Indian police and security forces, but also to the prospect that such incidents may be part of more systematic patterns of abuse than is typically assumed.
Thu Mar 12, 2009
(Posted at Dorf on Law)