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Civil Society calls on government to enable burial of Covid-dead
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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FMM decries efforts to obstruct freedom of expression on social media
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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NPC calls for constitution that is pluralist in its vision
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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Sri Lanka’s mandatory cremation policy is playing politics with the dead
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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