Condolences ,,, Today Mr Sharafat Ali is no more with us .Rest in peace .. We miss our 3 beloved senior Labourer Rights Activists.. Sharafat Ali, Shaikh Majeed & B. M Kutty Biyyathil Mohyuddin ,, . گروپ فوٹو میں شامل ۔۔۔ شرافت علی صاحب ، بھی آج ہم میں نہ رہے،۔، ایک ہفتہ قبل جناب مجید شیخ اور تقریباً 3 سال قبل ۔۔۔ جناب بی ایم کٹی صاحب کی وفات ہوئی ۔۔۔ اللہ تعالیٰ تمام مرحومین کو جنت الفردوس عطا فرمائے ۔۔۔۔۔۔آمین ۔۔۔۔
A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: The Contempt of Court Law and Practice In Sri Lanka Violates the International Law and Sri Lankan Constitution Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) , a Regional Human Rights Organization, having seriouslyobserved and studied the manner in which the Contempt of Court law and the way it is practiceLin Sri Lanka, wish to express its deep concern over the violations of International law and the Sri Lankan Constitution itself, by depriving protection of law to the persons accused of this offence.…
Workers Party City committee organized a public rally in front of WASA in Dhaka and submitted a memorandum to the WASA MD for immodesty stop increase WASA water price.
Civil Society Statement on Proposed Amendments to the Prevention of Terrorism Act On 27 January 2022 the government of Sri Lanka gazetted the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) (Amendment) Bill. We the undersigned express our deep disappointment that the proposed amendments do not address any of the shortcomings in the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) that enable grave human rights violations. We highlight that the PTA has been historically used against the Tamils, later Muslims after the Easter Sunday attacks and now dissenters as well. We restate our call for…
Political conditions and national ethnic issues in Sri Lanka today. Participants : Sinhala-Tamil-Muslim-Malayaha, political-social-education activists. Date: 18-02-2022 Time: 7:00 PM Sri Lanka
The weekend of the annual (online) Montreal Marxist Winter School is approaching fast! We’ve got an incredible lineup this year. Only 5 days to go, register now! Join hundreds of socialists for the largest Marxist event in Quebec and Canada. (As it is online this year, anyone from anywhere in the world is welcome to join us!) With no end in sight for the pandemic, the growth of right-wing populism, and no leadership from the left and the unions, there has never been a better time to organize and fight…
Originally From: https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/02/07/sri-lanka-grave-abuses-under-discredited-law (Brussels) – The Sri Lankan government is using the discredited Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) to commit prolonged arbitrary detention and torture, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The European Union, other trading partners, and donors, should press for time-bound action to repeal the abusive law and reject the government’s proposed amendments, which would not end widespread abuses. The 59-page report, “In a Legal Black Hole’: Sri Lanka’s Failure to Reform the Prevention of Terrorism Act,” documents the Gotabaya Rajapaksa administration’s misuse of the PTA against the minority…
An Article by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: What Is The Greater Wrong – Contempt Of Court Or Illegal Detention? By Basil Fernando In two occasions, the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) held in two separate cases decided by the Sri Lankan Supreme Court related to contempt of court that the punishment imposed by the Court amounted to disproportionate punishment and that such punishment amounted to illegal detention. The UNHRC held that on both occasions that the petitioners right to be free from illegal detention guaranteed under…