{"id":2608,"date":"2017-03-09T13:12:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T07:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tgte-us.org\/?p=2608"},"modified":"2019-03-06T10:12:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T04:42:03","slug":"toronto-event-discuss-tgtes-challenge-un-sri-lankas-6th-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tgte-us.org\/?p=2608","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Event to discuss TGTE\u2019s Challenge at the UN Against Sri Lanka\u2019s 6th Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Toronto Event to discuss TGTE\u2019s Challenge at the UN Against Sri Lanka\u2019s 6th Amendment<\/h5>\r\n<div class=\"imported\">\r\n\r\n<i>Date: Thursday, March 9, 2017; Time: 6.30 pm ; Venue: Toronto Delta East Hotel; 2035 Kennedy Rd., Toronto.<\/i>\r\n\r\nTORONTO, CANADA, March 7, 2017 \/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.einpresswire.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">EINPresswire.com<\/a>\/ &#8212;<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE) is pleased to invite you to the launching of its campaign to challenge Sri Lanka at the United Nations against Sri Lanka\u2019s sixth amendment.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 6th Amendment criminalizes the peaceful advocacy for an independent state which is a violation of freedom of speech, thought and conscience and the right of self-determination, set out in articles 18, 19 and 1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, ratified by Sri Lanka.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 6th Amendment does not prohibit calls for its repeal &#8211; as such this call for support is extended to lawyers practicing in Sri Lanka as well.<\/p>\r\nSpeakers:<\/p>\r\n\r\n1) Ms. Barbara Jackman, Human Rights Attorney.<\/p>\r\n2) Mr. David Matas: Human Rights Attorney.<\/p>\r\n3) Other notable Attorneys from Toronto.<\/p>\r\n\r\nDate: Thursday, March 9, 2017\r\nTime: 6.30 pm\r\nVenue: Toronto Delta East Hote ; York Room ; 2035 Kennedy Rd., Toronto.\r\n\r\nContact: toronto.office@tgte.org or (416)741-tgte(8483).\r\n\r\nTransnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE)\r\n\r\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Toronto Event to discuss TGTE\u2019s Challenge at the UN Against <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tgte-us.org\/?p=2608\" title=\"Toronto Event to discuss TGTE\u2019s Challenge at the UN Against Sri Lanka\u2019s 6th Amendment\">[\u0bae\u0bc7\u0bb2\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd]<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-2608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgte-us.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgte-us.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgte-us.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tgte-us.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tgte-us.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2608"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/tgte-us.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3210,"href":"https:\/\/tgte-us.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions\/3210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tgte-us.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgte-us.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tgte-us.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tgte-us.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2608"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tgte-us.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fyst_prominent_words&post=2608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}