Posts Tagged ‘monitor’

An Open Letter to Ban Ki-moon

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

[Huffington Post]

Dear Secretary-General,

I write to follow up my letter of 2 June 2011 on the subject of the United Nations Panel of Experts’ reporton accountability issues in Sri Lanka.

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Independent panel monitoring rights abuse probe in Sri Lanka resigns in frustration

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

[AP]

An international panel of experts invited by Sri Lanka to monitor a government commission investigating human rights abuses announced Thursday it was resigning in frustration over the government’s lack of support. “There has been and continues to be a lack of political and institutional will to investigate and inquire into the cases before the (government) commission,” the panel, known as the International Independent Group of Eminent Persons, said in a statement.

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