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Measuring Democracy - The ICFTU’s Reports on Violations of Union Rights - Artur Victoria Studies

and has 225 affiliated organizations in 148 countries. Affiliates are unions, union confederations or peak level associations. Association maintains close links with different UN bodies and has consultative status in some of...

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N. Korea: LTTE arms moved overland from China to NK for almost a decade (Tamil Tigers)

LTTE arms moved overland from China to NK for almost a decade by Shamindra Ferdinando Chinese arms consignments for the LTTE had been moved overland to North Korea across the China-North Korea border before being transferred to...

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Sri Lanka: Vanni IDPs suffer in flooded Vavuniyaa camps

Most of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) internment camps for Vanni IDPs in Vavuniyaa being flooded due to the current down pour many of the IDPs held in Menik Farm camp had fled from their shelters seeking refuge in the public halls...

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Sri Lanka: Reconciliation of two nation states requires parity

Considering all what had gone before, 'reconciliation' has to first take place between the powers and Eezham Tamil psyche and the probabilities are remote unless the powers recognize the national question as national question...

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India Must Rethink Its Policies Towards Its Neighbors and reduce tensions

For the past 63 years – the life span of most countries of this region, South Asia has remained in a state of tension. The eight SAARC countries* that make up this geopolitically sensitive region, where a major chunk of the...

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Sri Lanka: TID interrogates Selvam Adaikalanathan

Selvam Adaikalanathan, Vanni district Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian, for the third day - Saturday - was summoned to the Headquarters of the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) of Sri Lanka Police. But he was...

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Sri Lanka hopeful of EU trade concessions

COLOMBO, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- A senior Sri Lankan minister said on Saturday that the government was hopeful that the European Union (EU) would extend its preferential trade concessions known as the GSP+ for its garments exports...

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IMF approves second portion of loan

The International Monetary Fund -- the IMF -- has approved the second portion of a loan to Sri Lanka to help the country overcome the economic crisis. An official said the executive board of the IMF had decided to release...

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"Time to end emergency" - French envoy

A senior human rights envoy from France has asked Sri Lanka to end a state of emergency. After a three-day visit to the island nation, the envoy, Francois Zimeray said the end of the conflict between the government and the...

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Freedoms on the outer limit

There's something special about places on the outer limits of great nations or continents; a sort of liberated and reflective space, away from it all, yet still connected to it. Think Alaska, Vancouver Island, the Koh Chang...

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