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Filing an application for mandates in the nature of Writ of Certiorari and/or Prohibition and/or Mandamus Under and in terms...
In a letter addressed to Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission, the recently formed Civil Society Collective for the Rights of FTZ Workers has requested...
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16 October/WarOnWant) Sri Lanka’s worst Covid-19 outbreak has originated from a Brandix garment factory: 1,036 employees and 361 of...
Even as frightened and hapless garment workers slaving in the multitude of factories in the Gampaha District, the epicentre of Sri Lanka’s calamitous covid-19...
Weeping garment workers abruptly shoved into quarantine
Unions call for an immediate inquiry into factory COVID ops
Twenty-eight-year-old Kasuni is among hundreds of garment...
A Complaint has been made against Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva, Head of the National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO), Chief of...
According to the gazette notification issued by the Minister of Health today any person violators of the gazetted health guidelines will be subject to...
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The situation of Garment Factory Workers in Katunayaka – COVID-19 Update
By Marisa de Silva.
“The biggest mistake done by this Government and...
Image: A Brandix apparel factory in Sri Lanka; Courtesy: Brandix.
Health authorities believe the first reported Covid-19 infected worker from the Brandix factory in Minuwangoda...
Image: Army commander and police spokesperson brief media regularly on Covid 19 situation.
The largest cluster of corona patients in the country might not have...
Image: Abducted female workers say that food given to them is not properly cooked and cannot be eaten. (screenshot from the below video)
Fifty-three FTZ...
Health Minister Pavitra Wanniarachchi has warned that all those violating health safety regulations would be arrested and remanded for a period of six months,...
Colombo (News 1st); Sri Lanka Police said 1402 workers were attached to the Minuwangoda Brandix Factory and all those were not moved into quarantine...
Image: President Rajapaksa campaigning today (19) and no social distancing or face masks among the participants.
The Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV) says that...
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President Rajapaksa dissolved the Parliament on 2nd March 2020– six months before the due date, amidst the growing danger of COVID-19 pandemic. By this...
Leader of the All Ceylon Makkal Congress and former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen has requested the president Rajapaksa to allow Sri Lanka Muslims to honour...
Issuing a statement the General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has reaffirmed its firm position rejecting all policies and practices targeting...
Image: The President could perhaps respond positively to the joint opposition statement offering ‘responsible cooperation’.
The threefold crisis
The threefold crisis that our country faces—...
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The coronavirus pandemic has impacted the lives of people in Sri Lanka and across the globe. The President and the Minister...
The International Network of Democracy for Sri Lanka (INSD), based in Germany with its membership world-wide, salutes the health services of Sri Lanka for...
“Tackling a social calamity is not like fighting a war... Rather than muzzling the media and threatening dissenters with punitive measures (and remaining politically...
Image: Police officers on patrol during the coronavirus lockdown in Mumbai, India, last week.(Credit...Divyakant Solanki/EPA, via Shutterstock)
The coronavirus outbreak has allowed authoritarianism and anti-Muslim...
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"It’s the responsibility of the Government and the industry to protect the workers who carried the biggest weight of the...
The Coronavirus pandemic hit countries like the USA, India and Bangladesh in a situation where their economies had been experiencing strong growth for years....
Mr. Mahinda Deshapriya, Chairman, Election Commission.
Mr. Chairman,
On holding the general election.
Once again, there is talk of holding the general election in Sri Lanka at...
Calling of the President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka to condemn the police action in the strongest possible terms, the attorney representing...
Member of Parliament, TNA MP M. Sumanthran has presented a Private Member's Bill for the enactment of the "Public Health Emergency Act".
One week earlier...
Police, Judicial Officers Should End Arbitrary Arrests, Torture of LGBT People
(Colombo / October 20, 2020) – Sri Lankan authorities have subjected at least seven people...
1. On 4 October Sri Lanka’s newest Covid-19 cluster spreading within the Brandix-owned factory in Minuwangoda, Gampaha came to be known by an accident....
