http://federalidea.com/focus/archives/295 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:30:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://federalidea.com/focus/archives/295/comment-page-1#comment-4743 krihan Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:15:44 +0000 http://federalidea.com/focus/archives/295#comment-4743 The tamils and the sinhalese have a very diffrent food, langauge, religion and culture.. both are majorities in their own seperate areas.. you find both hindu and buddist temples in both areas.. The tamils and the sinhalese have a very diffrent food, langauge, religion and culture.. both are majorities in their own seperate areas.. you find both hindu and buddist temples in both areas..

]]> http://federalidea.com/focus/archives/295/comment-page-1#comment-4697 G.S.Sethukavalar Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:58:49 +0000 http://federalidea.com/focus/archives/295#comment-4697 Public International Law is a field that is almost exclusively regulated by State practice, be it through treaty law or customary Law.
This being the case, non-state groups are always at a lower, disadvantaged level than the state itself.
Further, only a handful of states even bother to adhere by the human rights conventions and war conventions they have signed up to. A majority of them, including China, India to an extent and Sri Lanka most definitely, just provide lip service.
ICRC and similar organisations are doing a very hard job. It is not unknown for very influential ministers and politicians in Sri Lanka to direct scathing attacks on the NGOs.
If Public international law shifts its emphasise to “protecting the human rights of the individual” from the current position of “protecting the interest of the state” we could see a positive change. But as states are likely to rally around to stop any of their privileges from being diluted it is highly unlikely.

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