One would have to have a heart of stone not to be moved by the Iraqi elections Sunday.

China has emerged as Sri Lanka's biggest single lender in 2009, overtaking the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, the treasury said Wednesday, March 3.

The presence of Chinese in Sri Lanka owned island of Kachchatheevu, considered as a threat to the security of India, is confirmed by a group of journalists and social activists from Tamil Nadu

Presenting her report to the annual session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, UN High Commissioner for human rights, Navi Pillay criticised Sri Lanka for failing to examine abuses committed during the civil war last year between the government forces and Tamil Tigers.

Sri Lanka's president has rejected the decision by the UN Secretary General to constitute a experts panel to look into human rights abuses in the country's civil war calling it unprecedented and unwarranted...

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, Conservative Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague and Liberal Democrats Shadow Foreign Secretary Ed Davey all addressed the Global Tamil Forum’s inaugural meeting in London on Wednesday, 24 February.

Letter sent to the innaugural conference of the GTF by Ambassador Blake

Dismissing the response by Colombo that Ban Ki Moon had not appointed panel of experts on other countries where there are "continuing armed conflicts on a large scale, involving major humanitarian catastrophes and causing the deaths of large numbers of civilians due to military action," as "simply untrue nonsense," Francis A. Boyle, professor at the University of Illinois College of Law, said that during the past year alone UN Human Rights Council had authorized Goldstone Commission investigation into Israel war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza.

Letter sent to the innaugural conference of the GTF by the African National Congress.

4,147 out of an estimated 6,000 to 6,500 eligible Eelam Tamil voters in Denmark participated in the referendum conducted by a third party professional institute on Sunday February 28 and 98.2 percent of them voted yes for the formation of independent and sovereign Tamil Eelam in the contiguous north and east of the island of Sri Lanka.

Two former war-crimes specialists were recently hired as consultants for Guinea's military junta after it was accused of massacring civilians -- and produced a secret report downplaying the violence, Foreign Policy has confirmed.

India is considering Sri Lanka's request for additional aid to ensure resettlement of internally displaced persons (IDPs), external affairs minister SM Krishna told reporters on Saturday March 6.

Letter sent to the Innaugural GTF conference by the Leader of the UK Conservative Party, Rt Hon David Cameron MP.

A copy of the speech given at the GTF launch by the UK Foreign Secrretary, Rt Hon. David Miliband MP.