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  1. And Then They Came For Me
    Final Words from Lasantha Wickrematunge

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    An editorial by Lasantha Wickrematunge shortly before he was murdered on January 8, 2009, and published three days after his death.
  2. The Anglican Church of Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  3. Canadians for Genocide Education
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  4. CHF
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  5. Climate Change in Asia and Brazil
    The Role of Technology Transfer

    Resource Type: Book
    This book focuses on the transfer of energy-efficient technologies against the backdrop of climate change by using 10 country case studies.
  6. CPJ award goes to jailed Sri Lankan journalist
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The Committee to Protect Journalists announced today that it will honor imprisoned Sri Lankan journalist J.S. Tissainayagam with a 2009 International Press Freedom Award.
  7. Death threats sent to paper of slain editor in Sri Lanka
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The Committee to Protect Journalists is greatly concerned by ongoing threats to Sri Lanka#s journalists and media organizations.
  8. Embassy Row Online
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
  9. Encyclopeida of Asian History
    Resource Type: Book
  10. Global media rights groups condemn "culture of impunity and indifference" in Sri Lanka
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Since the beginning of the New Year, both the killing of a senior editor and the attack on the facilities of a popular independent TV channel have led to a total paralysis of the media community in Sri Lanka.
  11. Global Press Freedom Declines in Every Region for First Time Israel, Italy and Hong Kong Lose Free Status
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Journalists faced an increasingly grim working environment in 2008, with global press freedom declining for a seventh straight year and deterioration occurring for the first time in every region, according to Freedom House's annual media study.
  12. IFJ Calls for Inquiry Into Lasantha's Murder
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the widow of Sri Lankan journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge in calling on Sri Lanka's power-holders to take immediate action to conduct a full, fair and independent investigation into the murder
  13. IFJ Condemns Shocking Attack on Tamil Newspapers in Sri Lanka
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) strongly condemns an attack on three Tamil newspapers in the northern Sri Lankan city of Jaffna. According to reports from IFJ sources, news agents for Jaffnaâ##s three main newspapers were attacked.
  14. International Crisis Group
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  15. Journalists Organisations in Sri Lanka Feel Anti-Media Heat
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) says ongoing interrogation of journalistsâ## leaders in Sri Lanka is a bullying tactic that only serves to highlight an intolerance of freedom of expression and the failure of democratic processes in
  16. The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    An in-depth look at the nature of terrorism that discusses questioning terrorism, assessing it, the difference between state terrorism and group terrorism, morality and history, and war and politics.
  17. Outrage at fatal shooting of newspaper editor in Colombo
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the murder of Sunday Leader editor Lasantha Wickrematunga, who was shot dead by two men on a motorcycle as he drove to work this morning in Colombo.
  18. Participants at IFEX General Meeting demand action
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Free expression advocates from around the world gathered this week in Oslo, Norway for the General Meeting (GM) of the International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX).
  19. Peace with Justice in Sri Lanka: Genocide of Sri Lankan Tamils â## its causes and solutions
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Peace with Justice in Sri Lanka: Genocide of Sri Lankan Tamils â## its causes and solutions. A lecture by Dr. Brian Senewiratne, a Sinhalese closely connected with the ruling families of Sri Lanka.
  20. Press freedom activist badly beaten in Colombo, hospitalised
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders is outraged by an assault on Poddala Jayantha, the secretary-general of the Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association (SLWJA), the country's leading journalists organisation.
  21. Press Freedom Under Fire in South Asia, 2008-09
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The seventh annual report on press freedom in South Asia documents alarming trends in working conditions for journalists.
  22. Sources welcomes Canadians for Genocide Education
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    CGE is a multi-cultural coalition of associations committed to equity and inclusivity in education on and commemoration of Genocide. Our focus areas are school curriculum and government funded projects relating to genocide and human rights.
  23. Sri Lanka Army holding three doctors who gave information to press
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders urges the Sri Lankan authorities to quickly release three Tamil doctors who have been arrested for providing the news media with information about the humanitarian situation in Vanni.
  24. Sri Lanka: Call for journalists to be let into area where â#oa major humanitarian crisisâ## is unfolding with no media presence
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders reminds Sri Lanka's government of its international undertakings as the media continue to be prevented from moving about freely in the north especially in the area where tens of thousands of Tamils are surrounded by the army
  25. Sri Lanka: Government urged to punish violence against independent media outlets after new attack
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    A pre-dawn attack by a dozen heavily-armed men that badly damaged the studios of the Maharaja Television/Broadcasting Network (MTV/MBC) in Pannipitiya, near Colombo, after charges that the networkâ##s reporting was not â#opatrioticâ## enough.
  26. UNESCO World Press Freedom Prize 2009 to be awarded posthumously to Sri Lankan journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The late Sri Lankan journalist and editor of the Sunday Leader Lasantha Wickrematunge, who was assassinated on 8 January this year, has been named laureate of the 2009 UNESCO World Press Freedom Prize.

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