Statements

COLOMBO - The singing of the national anthem became a matter of controversy last year at the National Independence Day celebration when it was sung only in Sinhala and not in both the official languages as it had been sung in the previous…
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LONDON -People’s Rights Group (PRG), a rights-based advocacy and lobbying group based in the UK, particularly dealing with human rights violations in Sri Lanka, strongly condemns the abhorrent action of the Sri Lankan authorities in razing…
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We the undersigned individuals and civil society organizations welcome the recent statements from eminent and authoritative individuals and organizations in the medical field in Sri Lanka approving the burial of COVID 19 dead. We thereby…
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COLOMBO - The Free Media Movement (FMM) expresses grave concern over the tendency to indiscriminately block and impede the right to freedom of expression on social media. During the coronavirus pandemic, a number of individuals who had…
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The government’s intention to replace the present constitution with a new constitution offers the possibility of developing a framework of governance that could address the conflicts between the ethnic and religious communities that have…
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While appreciating Sri Lanka’s relative success with the management of COVID-19, the Global Tamil Forum (GTF) would like to express its strong condemnation of the mandatory cremation of all dead bodies suspected to have been infected with…
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