By Tamara Kunanayakam Economist and International Relations Expert, Former Ambassador/Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations at Geneva, Former Senior International Civil Servant at the United Nations, and Ex-Chairperson/Rapporteur of Intergovernmental Working Group on the Right to Development INTRODUCTION A fundamental principle of international law, incorporated in a wide range of international...
The Society for Peace Unity and Human Rights for Sri Lanka (SPUR) joins other nationalist organisations in strongly rejecting the constitutional changes proposed in the report recently tabled at the Constitutional Assembly by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe. Under those proposals, Sri Lank will be converted from a ‘Unitary State’, which...
Courtesy of The Island The National Joint Committee issuing a statement on the Draft Constitution placed before the Constitutional Assembly, yesterday castigated it as “a type of surreptitious tinkering and meddling with the existing” well defined provisions and called it “dishonest and fraudulent”. What appear to have irked it most...
The Government has now placed before the Constitutional assembly a draft constitution consisting of a Preamble and 399 Articles arranged through 40 chapters. The structure of the draft is similar to the present constitution although the content is different. Therefore the Government’s denial that there exists no Draft Constitution is...
