Four representatives of hinduism,islam,buddism and christianity have arranged a trip to vatican's st.peter's church to request european union's gsp tax to SriLanka.
British Tamils Forum would like to inform you of a mass protest march taking place on Saturday, 17th October 2009, from 1pm to 5pm, in Central London. We would be grateful if you would provide the coverage this humanitarian effort deserves. We are expecting tens of thousands to attend.
Damilvany Gnanakumar witnessed Sri Lanka's bloody conflict from a Tamil hospital - then spent months detained in a camp. She tells Gethin Chamberlain her story
The young mother was standing by the side of the road, clutching her baby. The baby was dead.
Damilvany Gnanakumar watched as she tried to make a decision. Around them, thousands of people were picking their way between bodies strewn across the road, desperate to escape the fighting all around them.
Since December 2008, Ioanna Kotsioni has worked as the Deputy Head of Mission for MSF's project providing assistance to migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in Greece. She has visited the project in the Pagani detention center in Lesvos and she shares with us her experience inside the detention center. "Between August 20 and 28, I visited the detention center of Pagani to support the MSF team that has been providing psychosocial support to the undocumented migrants inside the center since July 27. The situation I faced, when I first arrived there was shocking.