Comments on: The Sham of Independence Without Human Rights Protection https://groundviews.org/2007/02/07/the-sham-of-independence-without-human-rights-protection/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-sham-of-independence-without-human-rights-protection Journalism for Citizens Thu, 08 Feb 2007 19:16:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 By: Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Sri Lanka: Human Rights and Independence https://groundviews.org/2007/02/07/the-sham-of-independence-without-human-rights-protection/#comment-551 Thu, 08 Feb 2007 19:16:35 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/2007/02/07/the-sham-of-independence-without-human-rights-protection/#comment-551 […] groundviews on why democracy is undermined by the lack of respect for human rights, and why Sri Lanka needs to get together the case for fighting violation of human rights. “There is no way in which effective human rights monitoring can be conducted by national institutions. The National Human Rights Commission is undermined at the top by the intentional violation of the Seventeenth Amendment and the non –constitution of the Constitutional Council as well as by a lack of resources.” Neha Viswanathan […]

]]> By: kadalay https://groundviews.org/2007/02/07/the-sham-of-independence-without-human-rights-protection/#comment-550 Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:39:13 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/2007/02/07/the-sham-of-independence-without-human-rights-protection/#comment-550 Democracy without human rights is no democracy…

It is comfortabe to feel that we live and work in a democracy. However, it does us no good in the long run to be treated as second class human beings in a nation that we are born to, irrespective of how our forefathers originally landed on Lankan soil.

We can dream on about this Utopia of democracy till Thy Kingdom Come!

Where will it take us in the end?

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