Implications for Office on Missing Persons from Presidential powers: Verite
Sri Lanka’s nineteenth amendment (19A) to the constitution which placed limitations on the powers of the President have implications on the operation of the Office on Missing Persons (OMP), a research report showed. Research conducted by the head of legal...
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Changes to Electronic Transactions Act Soon
Amendments to the Electronic Transactions Act of 2006 that are to be gazetted shortly will boost online as well as cross-border trade by providing greater clarity for e-commerce, according to Director and Legal Advisor at the Information and Communication Technology...
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Advancing access to information and open government in Sri Lanka
In February 2017, Sri Lanka’s Right to Information (RTI) Act entered into force. The inclusive process through which the Act was crafted represents an exemplar of law-making in Sri Lanka, while the law itself constitutes a leading example of access to information...
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What Mangala Said (And Didn’t Say) At The UNHRC
Last week, during the 34th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), and a full 17 months since Sri Lanka’s co-signing of Resolution 30/1, Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera delivered a speech at a high-level segment in Geneva. Kicking off on an...
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Remove Obstacles to agricultural exports
Excessive checks, delays and unwanted procedures serious drawback to export growth West Asia is a potentially large market for our agri-products, but Lanka losing competitiveness The sluggish export performance of recent years has been one of the main reasons for...
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Right to Information: Discourse and Compliance in Sri Lanka
Right to Information: Discourse and Compliance Verité Research, together with Democracy Reporting International (DRI) launched a paper titled ‘Right to Information: Discourse and Compliance’, on the 27th of February at the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute. The paper presented practical recommendations for...
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Call to change existing Sri Lanka laws to better apply RTI
Proactive disclosure is a key obligation of the Sri Lankan government under its new Right to Information (RTI) law and existing laws preventing publication of information from public authorities should be changed, a new study said. The study by the...
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