ECONOMYNEXT – A decision by Sri Lanka’s Cabinet of Ministers to reimpose a ban on women buying liquor is unconstitutional, Verité Research, a private sector think-tank, said. Women are entitled to purchase liquor under Sri Lankan law as at 10...

Verité Research says the Cabinet decision to withdraw Excise Notification No. 02/2018 is unconstitutional. The notification removes the ban on the sale of liquor to women within the premises of a tavern. This legal insight explains why the Cabinet decision...

Verite`, a prominent research body, yesterday said that the Cabinet decision to re-impose a 60 year old ban on selling alcohol on women was unconstitutional. Issuing a statement, Verite` said, the decision was an infringement on Fundamental Rights ensured by...

A group of female rights activists cum veteran professionals on Wednesday petitioned Sri Lanka's Supreme Court challenging a controversial Government decision to revoke an order to allow women to be employed in places of the production and sale of alcohol....

Artiste Samanalee Fonseka and ten other women yesterday filed a Fundamental Rights (FR) petition in the Supreme Court against the government’s decision to withdraw the gazette issued to lift the ban prohibiting women to purchase liquor or to work in...

“The Cabinet Decision to ban women from purchasing liquor is unconstitutional,” says Colombo-based interdisciplinary think-tank Verité Research. We publish below the note issued by Verité Research in full: Women are permitted to purchase liquor: On 10 January 2018, the Minister of...

Petitioners of a case filed in Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court on Wednesday challenging a decision to revoke an order to allow women to be employed in places of the production and sale of alcohol, were scrambling together on Thursday to...

වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුව බලයට පත් වී තෙවසරක් ගතව තිබේ. යහපාලනයක් ඇති කරන බවට ප්‍රතිඥා දෙමින් බලයට පත් වූ වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුවේ මැතිවරණ ව්‍යාපාරය තුළ විධායක ජනාධිපති ක්‍රමය අහෝසි කිරීම සහ පසුගිය රාජපක්ෂ පාලන සමයේ සිදු වූ බව කියන දූෂණ සහ අක්‍රමිකතා සඳහා...