Centre for Policy Alternatives on 2 June, 2012 2 June 2012, Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) is pleased to release it’s latest tri-lingual publication, Tamil Language Rights in Sri Lanka. As noted in the Introduced penned by Dr. Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu, the Executive Director of CPA, “‘Tamil Language Rights in Sri Lanka’ is written by a distinguished former civil servant […]
Centre for Policy Alternatives on 30 May, 2012 30 May 2012, Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Centre for Policy Alternatives is pleased to release it’s latest report, Short-Term Benchmarks for Peace and Reconciliation in Post-War Sri Lanka. The report provides a set of key measures that need to be implemented by the Government in the short term in order to achieve peace and reconciliation. […]
Centre for Policy Alternatives on 25 May, 2012 25 May 2012, Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) has repeatedly called upon the Government to make the final report of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC), released in early December 2011, available in Sinhala and Tamil. Up until May 2012, several months after the release of the report in English, […]
Centre for Policy Alternatives on 15 May, 2012 The Centre for Policy Alternatives(CPA) supported four farmers in Thambalagamam area in Trincomalee to file a writ application in the Court of Appeal against Chandraprapalini Krishnagopal Grama Niladari , Kovilady , Thampalakamam and others; by drafting the Petition, bearing the cost of litigation and assisting with field research etc, The Petitioners are residents of the Kinniya and Thampalakamam Grama Niladari […]
Centre for Policy Alternatives on 30 April, 2012 30 April 2012, Colombo, Sri Lanka: This note is an introduction to the legal framework governing places of religious worship in Sri Lanka, with specific focus on the ownership and control of such land. Recent events such as the attack on the Jumma Mosque of Dambulla, the claim that the Mosque and other buildings in […]
Centre for Policy Alternatives on 25 April, 2012 A fundamental rights/language rights petition was filed by the Petitioner with the support of The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) on 25th of April 2012 in the Supreme Court challenging the Institute of Human Resource Advancement (IHRA) of the University of Colombo, for conducting its courses only in the Sinhala language, without conducting the similar […]
Centre for Policy Alternatives on 20 March, 2012 20 March 2012, Colombo, Sri Lanka: That signboards are in Tamil on most buses plying in the North and East, and in Sinhala on those outside of these two provinces, was the basis of four submissions to the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka made by Lionel Guruge on behalf of the Centre for Policy […]