Two separate groups are protesting the orders of the Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), made public on April 1 this year, that action be taken against anyone who points out minor shortcomings, failures, criticises, scolds or chastise government...
Streamlining the issuance of curfew permits, a communique from the Inspector General of Police states that staff of forty three government and semi-government departments and private institutions will be allowed travel for work purposes during curfew hours, by showing...
Amongst a series of suggestions submitted to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB), led by former Opposition Leader, Sajith Premadasa is a recommendation that individual rooms be provided to those being quarantined instead of housing them in...
Short - Term
Continued enforcement of social distancing, including the lockdown of hotspots, to ensure that the number of infections does not exceed the capacity of the health system.
Delivery of essential food and pharmaceuticals, with a special focus...
COVID-19 has claimed its first fatality in Sri Lanka.
A press release from the Director General of Information, Nalaka Kaluwewa, states that the victim, a 60 year old male from Maravila had succumbed to the virus a few hours ago.
The...
Protect daily wage earners, people displaced by conflict, health workers and prisoners
As cases of COVID-19 escalate in South Asia, one of the world’s poorest and most populous regions, Amnesty International calls on the authorities there to put human...
A countrywide curfew was imposed, on 20 March, as a desperate measure to contain the spread of the Covid -19 virus within the country. This stringent action was taken in the wake of the declaration of a special holiday...
The government is working out a plan to deliver food stuff and other essential items to your door! At least, that will be the case for those living in the Colombo, Gampaha and Kalutara Districts, as they have been...
Mainstream newspapers will not be published on Saturday (21), Sunday (22) and Monday (23) in view of the countrywide curfew. The main publishing houses have taken this decision owing to a breakdown in the distribution network. They will resume...
The general election, which was to be held on 25 April, 2020, but postponed indefinitely by the Election Commission (EC) on account of the fast spreading COVID-19 and its impact on the electoral process, is likely to be held...
The Centre for Environmental & Nature Studies(CENS), has, in a letter to Health Minister Pavitra Wanniarachchi offered several of their facilities for use as quarantine centres during the COVID-19 crisis.
The letter further states that the environmental centres as well...
A group of concerned academics, professional and citizens is calling upon the government, the Vice Chancellors and Deans to take the strongest possible action against the continuing violence that takes place in universities.
In an open letter dated March 15,...
