Analysis and Advocacy

Rain helps Tamil activists at Cardiff test match

Rain that drenched Tamil youth activists conducting a major leafleting effort in support of the ‘Boycott Sri Lankan Cricket’ campaign on Saturday, the third day of Sri Lanka’s first test match against England, proved a blessing in disguise when it stopped play till lunch, allowing …

Analysis and Advocacy

TYO extends ‘Boycott Sri Lanka’ to cricket

Using as context the quarter final of the Cricket World Cup between co-hosts Sri Lanka and England, the TYO-UK (Tamil Youth Organisation) on Saturday conducted an awareness campaign on Sri Lanka in London, on a day marked by huge protest by the TUC (Trade Union …

Analysis and Advocacy

Boycott Sri Lankan Cricket at UK universities

Two student societies at St. Georges Medical School of the University of London – the International Tamil Society (ITS) and Amnesty International (AI) – cohosted a bake sale on Monday May 23 to raise awareness of war crimes and rights abuses in Sri Lanka and …

Press Releases-English

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The national flags of Tamil Eelam and Sri Lanka were amongst forty paraded Saturday in Germany’s biggest stadium, the Westfalenstadion, before a football match between champions Borussia Dortmund and FC Nuremberg. Borussia Dortmund, one of Germany’s most successful football clubs, organised the parade of flags …

Education and Career Development

Tamil youth promote higher education in Leicester

British Tamil youth hold Higher Education and Careers Convention in Leicester on Saturday 29th October 2011. The event was organised by TYO-UK in collaboration with Leicester Tamil Student Union. Following the success of TYO-UK’s first convention, held in London earlier this year, Tamil school children and parents …