Centre for Policy Alternatives on 23 August, 2007 The Right to Vote: Its Impact on Election Laws in Sri Lanka (Sundari de Alwis and Rohan Edrisinha) – Background Paper presented by Rohan Edrisinha at the Seminar The Right to Vote and the Law Relating to Election Petitions.
The Right to Vote: Its Impact on Election Laws in Sri Lanka
The Right to Vote: Its Impact on Election Laws in Sri Lanka
Centre for Policy Alternatives on 23 August, 2007 A commentary on the Discussion of the PA-UNP Consensus on the New Constitution for Sri Lanka held on 29th July and 5th August 2000 at the BMICH – By the Conflict & Peace Analysis Programme, Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) and a background paper titled “DEVOLUTION: From 13th Amendment to the New Constitution Bill – An Overview of Some Contentious Issues”
A commentary on the Discussion of the PA-UNP Consensus on the New Constitution for Sri Lanka
Centre for Policy Alternatives on 23 August, 2007 A commentary on the Seminar, Parliamentary Elections 2000 Responses to Irregularities: Anomalies and Contradictions which was held at the BMICH on the 14th of November 2000.
A commentary on the Seminar, Parliamentary Elections 2000 Responses to Irregularities: Anomalies and Contradictions
A commentary on the Seminar, Parliamentary Elections 2000 Responses to Irregularities: Anomalies and Contradictions
A commentary on the Seminar, Parliamentary Elections 2000 Responses to Irregularities: Anomalies and Contradictions
Centre for Policy Alternatives on 23 August, 2007 A Model Freedom of Information Law and the Chapter on Sri Lanka (from the publication 'Global Trends on the Right to Information: A Survey of South Asia') which were discussed, and the Recommendations passed at the International Conference on The Right to Information: Focus on South Asia held at Hotel Galadari Colombo, from 29th to 31st July 2001 organized in collobration with Article 19, The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative and the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.
A Model Freedom of Information Law and the Chapter on Sri Lanka
Centre for Policy Alternatives on 23 August, 2007 A study of ‘Human Rights Violations of Internally Displaced Persons and Government Policies classified by reference to the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement’ prepared by the Legal Unit of CPA and presented at a Seminar on Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons – The Sri Lankan Challenge’ held at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute on 12th January 2002.
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Centre for Policy Alternatives on 23 August, 2007 A review of National Legislation on Trafficking in Children was carried out by Renuka Senanayake, Shermila Antony and Tina Senanayake of the Legal Unit for the International Programme for the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) of the International Labour Organisation (ILO). This research assesses the adequacy of existing legislation, in keeping with the definition of trafficking as expressed in the 'Protocol to Prevent Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children'. This Protocol supplements the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime introduced in 2000. The findings of the study were presented at a Workshop held on 3rd April 2002 titled “Child Trafficking in Sri Lanka : The Legal Challenge”.
On completion of the study a Prevention of Child Trafficking Act was drafted by the Centre for Policy Alternatives addressing the inadequacies in the existing legal framework.
Centre for Policy Alternatives on 23 August, 2007 Paper by Asanga Welikala, Research Associate (Legal and Constitutional Unit) on the President's power to dissolve Parliament.