About Tamil Information Centre
The Tamil speaking community in Sri Lanka has suffered injustice and oppression for a long time and finds it extremely difficult to seek redress in the face of continuing persecution and spurious propaganda and disinformation. The Tamil Information Centre (TIC) endeavours to address the challenges that face the Tamil speaking community in Sri Lanka, to ensure that their rights are protected and promoted and their freedoms are recognised and respected.
The guiding principle of the Tamil Information Centre
Fundamental human rights are the foundation of human existence and co-existence. Human Rights make us human and they are the principles based on which we create the sacred home for human dignity.
Vision & Mission
The Tamil Information Centre (TIC) desires peace, stability and harmony in the island of Sri Lanka where:
Vision
The people live with dignity free from persecution and their civil, political, economic and cultural rights as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and other international instruments of the United Nations are recognised;
Self preservation within their homeland is promoted, and every individual in any part of the island is respected, cared for and loved;
Human rights are respected, fostered and promoted without oppression;
The right of self-determination of all peoples is recognised empowering them to freely determine their political status and freely pursue their political, economic, social and cultural development.
Mission
The Tamil Information Centre's mission is to empower people, particularly those suffering persecution and subjected to human rights abuses, valuing the distinct identities and differences among them and to improve the quality of life through access to knowledge. To fulfill its mission the TIC strives to:
- Assist in the search for a just and lasting peace in Sri Lanka;
- Respond to the needs and problems of victims of war or oppression in Sri Lanka;
- Protect refugees and asylum-seekers at risk of persecution by providing information about the situation in Sri Lanka, refugee rights and other relevant issues;
- Initiate advocacy and public campaigns on these issues to promote the adoption of just policies and procedures by governments and international institutions;
- Disseminate information and works of creative imagination in order to increase public knowledge on Tamil history, culture and contemporary politics;
- Provide facilities for research, consultation, advice and community activities.