The Law That Exists
இருக்கும் சட்டம்
Lamps on a flooded stair. Some are lit, most are cold. The law that protects Tamils is not absent — it is unlit, and lighting it is documentation work, not lobbying.
இப்போது · Now (Aarambam)
The Diaspora Law Index holds 124 instruments. Thirty-nine protect: ICCPR, ICERD, CAT, ECHR, the Refugee Convention, the Genocide Convention, and domestic equivalents. Forty-one restrict: proscription regimes, the UK Terrorism Act 2000, Sri Lanka's PTA and its successors. Thirty-two enable: Magnitsky-style sanctions, universal jurisdiction, GSP+ conditionality, FATF and APG mutual evaluation.
An instrument that exists but is never invoked has the practical force of an instrument that does not exist. The gap between the two is the enforcement gap, and the enforcement gap is measurable.
This archive does not litigate. It prepares the evidentiary conditions under which someone who can litigate will not have to start from nothing.
ஆகுதல் · Becoming (Nilaiththanmai)
Every enabling instrument mapped to the desk that can feed it, and every submission published with its date, forum, and outcome.
A reader can see which lamp was lit, by whom, and whether anything downstream changed.
Restriction instruments documented with equal care. A body that only publishes the laws that favour it is not a standards body.
What is not yet true
- 01The 124-instrument index is maintained by hand and lags new instruments by up to one era-week.
- 02No submission by this body has yet produced a recorded change in any forum. Preparation is not outcome, and this book does not present it as one.
- strikeபடைப்பு
- holdகாப்பு
- releaseஅழிப்பு
- pressமறைப்பு
- liftஅருள்
strike · hold · release · press · lift — analogy, not identity