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NEOLIBERALISM VERSUS SOVEREIGNTY: THE CASE OF SRI LANKA – Part 1
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...
Society for Peace, Unity and Human Rights for Sri Lanka Inc (SPUR) MEDIA RELEASE – January 2019
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...
NJC castigates draft constitution as a fraud
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...