Centre for Policy Alternatives on 2 March, 2015 PEACE MONITOR: Volume 10 Issue 1, March 2015
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Centre for Policy Alternatives on 2 March, 2015 Centre for Policy Alternatives on 24 February, 2015 Cultural camps
The Outreach Unit of the Centre for Policy Alternatives recently carried out an arts and culture camp in the cities of Kandy and Badulla. Over 600 students from across the Central and Uva provinces attended the series of workshops and competitions; this is the first time both Sinhala and Tamil students have participated in an […]
Centre for Policy Alternatives on 10 February, 2015 Action required for promoting openness in the 100-day reform process and the consolidation of constitutional democracy
Download this press release in Tamil here and in Sinhala here. ### 10 February 2015, Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) welcomes the general direction of the government’s 100-day reforms programme that is currently underway. After decades of intolerable battering, Sri Lanka’s democratic procedures and institutions are badly in need of reform and […]
Centre for Policy Alternatives on 10 February, 2015 Saama Vimarshi – February and March 2015
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Centre for Policy Alternatives on 5 February, 2015 CIVIL SOCIETY STATEMENT ON HUMAN RIGHTS
4 February 2015: We, the undersigned conveners on behalf of civil society organizations and individuals who have focused on human rights protection through the dark and dangerous days of the Rajapaksa regime, welcome the victory of Mr. Maithripala Sirisena in the 08th January 2015 Presidential Election and the formation of a new government. We look […]
Centre for Policy Alternatives on 4 February, 2015 #icanChangeSL & #wecanChangeSL: Shaping a new Sri Lanka
The Presidential poll of 8 January 2015 inspired the largest number of voters in Sri Lanka’s history to turn out to elect a new president. The #IVotedSL campaign, which went viral in the lead up to and on the day of the election, was an unprecedented effort over social media to enhance voter turnout. Thousands of Sri Lankans […]
Centre for Policy Alternatives on 31 January, 2015 RE-QUALIFYING FOR THE EUROPEAN UNION’S ‘GSP PLUS’ TARIFF CONCESSION AND FULFILLING SRI LANKA’S OBLIGATIONS UNDER THE ICCPR
The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) notes media reports to the effect that the new government of Sri Lanka is actively seeking re-entry to the European Union’s GSP Plus scheme, from which Sri Lanka was excluded in 2008 due to the confrontational approach adopted by the previous government. The policy of the previous government was […]