CPA Comms Officer on 25 September, 2022 What is the Official Secrets Act? The Official Secrets Act No. 32 of 1955 is an archaic law in our statute books, said to be based on a much criticized and now abolished 1911 Official Secrets Act in the United Kingdom. The purpose of the Act is to ‘restrict access to official secrets and secret […]
CPA Comms Officer on 6 September, 2022 The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) welcomes the announcement that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has reached an agreement with the Government of Sri Lanka on an Extended Fund Facility Arrangement to support economic adjustment and reform policies equivalent to USD 2.9 billion over 48 months. We understand that an international creditors conference, the implementation […]
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CPA Comms Officer on 24 August, 2022 24th August 2022, Colombo: The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) is deeply concerned by steps taken by President Ranil Wickremesinghe, in his capacity as the Minister of Defense, to issue three detention orders under section 9 of the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act (PTA), permitting the detention of Wasantha Mudalige – Convener of Inter-University […]
CPA Comms Officer on 8 August, 2022 විකල්ප ප්රතිපත්ති කේන්ද්රයේ සමීක්ෂණ පර්යේෂණ අංශය වන සෝෂල් ඉන්ඩිකේටර් (SI) විසින් ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදී ආණ්ඩුකරණය පිළිබඳ විශ්වාසනීයත්ව දර්ශකයෙහි (අදියර 3) වාර්තාවේ සාරාංශය ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇත. ශ්රී ලංකාව මුහුණ දී සිටින ආර්ථික හා දේශපාලන අර්බුදය හමුවේ, මෙම මත විමසුම සැලසුම් කර ඇත්තේ මහජන අත්දැකීම්, අරගලය පිළිබඳ ඔවුන්ගේ මතය සහ වර්තමාන ආර්ථික දේශපාලනික අර්බුධයේ විවිධ පැතිකඩ පිළිබඳ මහජන මතය ග්රහණය කර ගැනීමේ […]
CPA Comms Officer on 8 August, 2022 இந்த அறிக்கையானது மாற்றுக் கொள்கைகளுக்கான நிலையத்தின் கணிப்பீட்டாய்வுப் பிரிவான சோஷல் இன்டிகேட்டரினால் சமீபத்தில் நடாத்தப்பட்ட ஜனநாயக ஆட்சி தொடர்பான நம்பிக்கைச் சுட்டி (3வது அலை) ஆய்வின் முடிவுகளை வெளியிடுகின்றது. இலங்கை தற்போது முகம்கொடுக்கும் அரசியல் மற்றும் பொருளாதார நெருக்கடி நிலைமையில் பொதுமக்களின் அனுபவங்களையும், ஆர்ப்பாட்டம் மற்றும் தற்போதைய அரசியல் பொருளாதார நெருக்கடி தொடர்பான பல்வேறுபட்ட அம்சங்கள் பற்றிய அபிப்பிராயங்களையும் அறிந்துகொள்ளும் நோக்கில் இந்த ஆய்வு வடிவமைக்கப்பட்டது. Read the summary findings in Tamil here:
CPA Comms Officer on 8 August, 2022 This report presents the summary findings and overview of the Confidence in Democratic Governance Index (Wave 3) conducted by Social Indicator (SI); the survey research arm of the Centre for Policy Alternatives. Given the economic and political crisis, Sri Lanka is facing, this poll was designed with the aim of capturing the public experience, their […]