Shivani Jegarajah To Speak At Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative London

Shivani Jegarajah To Speak At Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative London

In Immigration, Mansfield Chambers, Shivani Jegarajah With 1 Comments

Mansfield Chambers is proud to announce that Shivani Jegarajah will be speaking at the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative London, being held on 24  March 2015.

The venue for the event is Torrington Room, First Floor, South Block, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU. The starting time is 6:15pm.

We look forward to seeing you there. It promises to be both an interesting and enlightening evening.

24th-March-debate

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  • Amal Abeyawardene

    Shivani, your comments at the OISL Discussion organised by CHRI on Tue 24/3/15 were very pertinent and interesting. As a fellow person of Sri Lankan heritage, it is interesting how your experience of seeking your Identity, whilst living in UK, is quite different from mine. I too was in Sri Lanka at the time of the 1983 Riots and helped and harboured several Tamils during the pogrom.
    It was heartening to hear that you agree with stance that Sri Lanka needs to be given space to set up its own Domestic Inquiry in to the ending of the War in 2009, given that there is a new Sri Lankan Govt.
    I too would agree that Sri Lanka does need to come to terms with the ending of the war, so that victims and their survivors can find out what happened. However it does concern me, that whilst justice is paramount, the need to heal and reconcile communities, must also continue apace, within the same current favourable political space. The time for ending divisiveness needs to take shape and should not wait for the state to act. It is even more disappointing to see that Tamil, Sinhalese and Muslim communites living in UK are so fractured.Surely enough time has elapsed since the ending of the War to allow British Sri Lankan communities to come together here, and by building alliances we may collectively set an example by supporting justice with peace and reconciliation, which may then have a positive reaction back home in Sri Lanka?