Hindu group protests against Muslim teachers wearing abaya
Protesters gathered outside the school to demand Muslim teachers stop wearing the abaya, a cloak worn by some women [Courtesy of M. I. M. Ifas] When a new staff member wore the robe to a school in Sri Lanka's northeast,...
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The case against anti-terrorism laws
Jeyakumari Balendran, an activist campaigning for the whereabouts of missing persons in Sri Lanka, was detained by officers of the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) in March 2014. Photo: Vikalpa | Groundviews | Maatram | CPA / Flickr Nearly a decade after...
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Women’s Representation and Participation in Formal Politics
By Daisy Perry Despite the drive for gender equality promoted at the Beijing UN World Conference on Women in 1995, the Sri Lankan State appears to have taken little responsibility for narrowing the gender gap in political representation. Savitri Goonesekere explains...
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Women’s Participation at the Grassroots Level
By Daisy Perry Drawing on the idea that the personal is political and challenging the notion that political empowerment can be measured solely with a seat in a legislature, this article focuses on the forms in which women who are not...
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Performance-based Budget
As the annual process for compiling the next Budget gets underway, Cabinet this week approved a fresh Cabinet paper from Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera to establish a performance-based Budget for 2019. Many hope this will be an effective step to...
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Simplifying exporter registration process is critical for export success: Study
July 10, 2018 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s current exporter registration process is unnecessarily lengthy, inefficient and unduly burdensome especially for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), a recent study has found. According to the main findings of a study conducted by...
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Think tank urges govt. simplify export registration process
ECONOMYNEXT: Sri Lanka’s government has been urged to simplify the process for registering exporters to make it more effective, as the present system is seen as too cumbersome and time-consuming and open to abuse. Although the current registration process was...
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ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka’s government has been urged to simplify the process for registering exporters to make it more effective, as the present system is seen as too cumbersome and time-consuming, and open to abuse. Although the current registration process...
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How China Got Sri Lanka to Cough Up a Port
A cargo ship navigating one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes, near Hambantota, Sri Lanka, in May.CreditAdam Dean for The New York Times HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka — Every time Sri Lanka’s president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, turned to his Chinese allies for...
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