2 September 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV) has commenced monitoring the forthcoming Northern Provincial Council Elections 2013.
Cooperation and assistance rendered by election officials, police, political parties, candidates, media and public in the past has been invaluable to the exercise and we look forward to similar cooperation in this election as well.
The CMEV secretariat is located in Colombo and incidents related to electoral violence and violations of electoral laws can be reported to the secretariat through the contact details given below.
- All CMEV reports and communiqués, and the violence mapping on Google Maps can be accessed online at http://cmev.wordpress.com
- All updates will be posted on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/cmev (or via @cmev)
- All updates will also be posted on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/electionviolence
CMEV will deploy 20 Field Monitors in the first week of September to cover every polling division in the province and as well as 250 Stationary Observers and 10 Mobile Teams on Election Day in the areas identified as critical in nature.
Our contact details are:
Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV)
No 24/2, 28th Lane
Off Flower Road,
Colombo
TP: 0112565304 & 0112565304
Fax: 0114714460
E-mail: [email protected]
Please contact following persons for comments and information:
Dr. Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu
Co-Convenor-CMEV
0112301634 (direct)
Mr. Manjula Gajanayake
Co-ordinator
0115552749
Mr. Mani Maran
Field Co-ordinator
0115552749
CMEV was formed in 1997 by the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA), the Free Media Movement (FMM) and the Coalition against Political Violence as an independent and nonpartisan organization to monitor the incidence of election related violence. Currently, CMEV is made up of CPA, FMM and INFORM Human Rights Documentation Centre.