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Sri Lanka vows to free 130,000 refugees

Tamil civilians peep over a fence at an internment camp in Vavuniya yesterday. Photograph: Eranga Jayawardena/AP Sri Lanka today bowed to international pressure and announced plans to close the internment camps that are home to more than 130,000 people ...

From GETHIN CHAMBERLAIN, Guardian Unlimited,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: John Holmes,  Mahinda Rajapaksa

Delhi jails street beggars for 2010 Games

The three women were at a bus stop when the police rolled up. "You are begging, get in the van," the officers told them. They protested their innocence, but to no avail. After they were locked up in beggars' prison behind the high, barbed-wire-topped ...

From GETHIN CHAMBERLAIN, Guardian Unlimited,  7 Nov 2009

Vedanta versus the villagers

Members of the Kutia Kondh tribe in the village of Dangadahal in the foothills of Niyamgiri mountain in Orissa state, India. Stone is being excavated for roads so Vedanta can extract bauxite. Photograph: Gethin Chamberlain The ash spills out across the ...

From GETHIN CHAMBERLAIN, Guardian Unlimited,  12 Oct 2009

Related Topics: FTSE

Vedanta bauxite mining on tribe's sacred mountain

The Vedanta company's Lanjigarh alumina refinery at the foot of Niyamgiri mountain in Orissa state, India. The mountain is regarded as sacred by the Dongria Kondh tribe, which relies on the jungle cover for their livelihood. But the tribe's survival is ...

From GETHIN CHAMBERLAIN, Guardian Unlimited,  12 Oct 2009

Monsoon threatens Sri Lankan refugees, warns UN

Civilians stand behind the barbed-wire perimeter fence of the Manik Farm refugee camp near Vavuniya, Sri Lanka. Photograph: David Gray / Reuters/REUTERS Tens of thousands of detained refugees from the war in Sri Lanka are threatened by the imminent ...

From GETHIN CHAMBERLAIN, Guardian Unlimited,  10 Oct 2009

Related Topics: United Nations,  Human Rights Watch,  Mahinda Samarasinghe,  Rajiva Wijesinha

India: Two million die in slums a year

Akila Anees, 27, with her son Mohammed Sanni in the Bhagwanpura slum in Delhi. Photograph: Gethin Chamberlain India's growing status as an economic superpower is masking a failure to stem a shocking rate of infant deaths among its poorest ...

From GETHIN CHAMBERLAIN, The Observer,  3 Oct 2009

Related Topics: World Bank

Eyewitness account of a bloody conflict

Damilvany Gnanakumar, the British woman caught in brutal civil war. Photograph: Graeme Robertson 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. ...

From GETHIN CHAMBERLAIN, Guardian Unlimited,  15 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Mahinda Rajapaksa

Father of child star dies

Mohammed Ismail, left, holds the hand of his son, Azhar, 10 - a star of Slumdog Millionaire - and his wife Shamim in the flat bought for them by the filmmakers. The picture was taken the day before his death Photograph: Gethin Chamberlain The father of ...

From GETHIN CHAMBERLAIN, Guardian Unlimited,  4 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Danny Boyle,  Academy Awards

Indian children crippled by uranium

Their heads are too large or too small, their limbs too short or too bent. For some, their brains never grew, speech never came and their lives are likely to be cut short: these are the children it appears that India would rather the world did not see, ...

From GETHIN CHAMBERLAIN, The Observer,  29 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Environmental Protection Agency

Pictures point to Indian police killing

Chungkam Sanjit is led away by police in Imphal, Manipur. Photograph: tehelka.com Authorities in the state of Manipur have promised a judicial inquiry into what appears to be a "fake encounter" – a tactic used by Indian police to dispose of suspects ...

From GETHIN CHAMBERLAIN, The Observer,  6 Aug 2009

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