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SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chileans poured into the country’s main squares on Sunday night after voters gave a ringing endorsement to a plan...
Abduction and demands for ransom by some officers of Kuda oya Police Station.
Two young men named Wicramage Shanaka Chathuranga and Wicramage Eishan Chintaka Lakamal...
Calling of the President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka to condemn the police action in the strongest possible terms, the attorney representing...
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....
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...
The Sri Lankan authorities must release prominent human rights lawyer Hejaaz Hizbullah, who has been held in detention for more than six months under...
According to the gazette notification issued by the Minister of Health today any person violators of the gazetted health guidelines will be subject to...
Image: Pham Doan Trang, a Vietnamese dissident, was arrested on charges of making and disseminating propaganda against the Vietnamese state.(Credit-Thinh Nguyen)
By Richard C. Paddock.
BANGKOK...
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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: 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...
ECONOMYNEXT – A section of Sri Lanka’s powerful Buddhist clergy is opposing a Constitutional Amendment proposed by the government of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa which...
(INFORM) This report provides some general trends and details of some significant incidents related to the repression of dissent in Sri Lanka in the...
With the Supreme Court’s Determination on the 20th Amendment Bill being made available in the public domain, some aspects of the ruling warrant immediate attention....
Colombo (News 1st); Sri Lanka Police said 1402 workers were attached to the Minuwangoda Brandix Factory and all those were not moved into quarantine...
(HRW) A cross-regional group of 39 United Nations member countries issued a stinging public rebuke today of the Chinese government’s widespread human rights violations...
What were the main weaknesses of the 19A?
The 19A was brought to democratize the state. This was an underlying necessity because from 2005-2015, especially...
Brigadier K. K. S. Parakum of Mechanized Infantry Regiment has entered the Sampathnuwara District Hospital a few days ago and threatened the medical staff...
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and activists worldwide. Founded in 1961, Amnesty International is...
