10 June 2013 PRESS RELEASEThe storms and the adverse weather condition on Saturday early morning, in the rough sea have destroyed more than 60 beloved fishermen's lives around the West, South/West and Southern coasts in Sri Lanka. Some of the media messages say there are 31 including 30 fisher people dead, 29 injured and 31 missing people, including 37 ...
Fishers, who went to the sea last Friday (7th of June) night have faced a horrific situation due to gale force wind and heavy rains. Failure of giving timely warning to the fishers in advance on adverse weather situation by the authorities was the main reason for the incident. so far bodies of 30 fishers found, 31 missing and 29 ...
There are about 1200 illegal constructions like Hotels, guest houses, parapet walls around the coastal belt in Sri Lanka says coastal conservation department. Further, Mr Anil Premarathne, Director of CCD has mentioned that government spends about 20 million per year to remove these constructions. (Lakbima - 2013.06.09)
By Nirmala KannangaraThe Supreme Court orderDirector General Mahaweli Authority is accused of ignoring a Supreme Court ruling to obtain 12,900 hectares of forestlands in the Padaviya Forest Reserve.With a letter (Ref LUP/ MPT/ 19) dated March 27, 2013 to Conservator General Forest, Director General, Mahaweli Authority has requested to release 12,900 hectares from the Padaviya Forest Reserve for a resettlement ...
By Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema and Raisa WickrematungeLand grabs have taken place in various places in the North leaving many homelessOpposition political parties and civilians in the Northern Province are looking at initiating legal action against the military’s acquisition of lands that were demarcated as a high security zone (HSZ) during the period of the war.TNA MP, M. A. Sumanthiran said ...
By Nirmala KannangaraThe Sri Lanka Navy and the Special Task Force (STF) are accused of grabbing 1,220 acres of forestlands in Shasthrawela, Ragamwela, Ulpassawela, Horowkanda and Ella in Panama chasing away the villagers whose forefathers too had been occupying these lands even during the Uva-Wellassa rebellionHowever though sanctions have been imposed by the Forest Department, Archaeological Department, Coast Conservation Department ...
The government has told the UN Human Rights Council that all 295,873 IDPs resulting from the end of the conflict in 2009 have been resettled.Speaking during the interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial killings and the Special Rapporteur on internally displaced persons, the Sri Lankan delegation said that as of March 2013, of the full caseload of IDPs ...
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has been told in a statement submitted by an NGO that no freedom of assembly in Sri Lanka.In a written statement submitted to the 23rd session of the UNHRC, the International Movement against all Forms of Discrimination and Racism (IMADR) notes several incidents reported in almost all parts of the country this year ...
High Tariff spurs growth in solar powerDramatic and Tough changes required at CEBBy A Special CorrespondentThe sky rocketing price of electricity has clearly caught the imagination of the public but it has also spurred large numbers to be interested in alternative sources of power like solar energy and the quest for energy-efficient appliances. In the midst of all this seeming ...
කල්පිටිය සහ අරුගම්බේ අතර සී ප්ලේන් ගුවන් සේවාවක් ආරම්භ කිරීම කෙරෙහි රජයේ අවධානය යොමුවී ඇති බව ආර්ථික සංවර්ධන නියෝජ්ය අමාත්ය එස්.එම්.චන්ද්රසේන මහතා පැවසීය. කල්පිටිය ප්රදේශයේ හෝටල් ඉදිකිරීමට යෝජිත දුපත් වල සිදු කරණ ලද සංචාරයකින් අනතුරුව පැවති මාධ්ය හමුවකදී නියෝජ්ය ඇමතිවරයා මේ බව පැවසීය. තවදුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වු නියෝජ්ය අමාත්ය එස්.එම්.චන්ද්රසේන මහතා මෙසේද පැවසීය.ඉදිරියේදී අප රටට වැඩිම විදේශ විනිමයක් අපේක්ෂා කරන්නේ සංචාරක ...
Source : Lakbima 2013. 05. 30During a district conference conducted on 29th of May a fisheries society known as Kilinjalmedu, in Tamilnadu has imposed a prohibition regulation for their members to enter and fish in Sri Lankan waters.Mr. Weeradasan, chairperson of the society further has mentioned, that the Karikaal and Nagei district fishers are the majority of the illegal ...
Sentiments of Fisher People form Un-ended Technical Consultation on International Guidelines for Small Scale Fishing Communities.Sentiments of Fisher People form Un-ended Technical Consultation on International Guidelines for Small Scale Fishing Communities.The first round of Technical Consultation on International Guidelines on Securing Sustainable Small Scale Fisheries (SSF Guidelines) was held at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the ...
- A CASE STORY OF AN EMERGING CITIZENSHIP BUILDINGFOR CLAIMING FISHERY RIGHTS AND SUSTENANCEThe StruggleSampathPushpakumara, Mutwal isle “We have been living in this isle for generations and we are not prepared to give up our rights even if we were given money in exchange of lands.”Asanka Cruz –Fisherman, Sinnamunnakkarei isle“We have been living in our lands for the last 70- ...
PRESS RELEASE KARACHI, May 24: The Jury appointed by Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER) to decide the nominations for first Didi Nirmala Deshpande South Asian Peace and Justice Award for 2013 announced on Friday to confer the award on Ms. Sunila Abeysekera, a leading women’s human rights defender in Sri Lanka and South Asia, and a major player ...
National Fisheries Solidarity involves in several ways of solving the issue of invading Indian trawlers and stops the destruction making by them in North Sea of Sri Lanka. Gather of data on regular basis is crucial to show and confirm how much damage caused to the resources by bottom trawlers. As second step of training given to fisher leaders from ...
Thousands of protesters walked in Colombo against increased electricity bill by the government few weeks ago. The protest was organized by joint opposition party together with workers union collaboration. Government has increased pressure on Pressurized people with high living cost by increasing electricity bill. Government is expecting to earn 214 billion LKR by increased electricity bill. Price per unit of ...
MEERA SRINIVASANLIFE IN TATTERS: Our brethren from Tamil Nadu are posing a serious threat to our livelihood, say these Sri Lankan fishermen, who are displaying their torn nets at Karainagar village in Jaffna. Photo: Meera SrinivasanTheir trawlers very close to our shore, say Sri Lankan fishermen“Tamil fishermen pose the biggest threat to our livelihood,” said M. Lingarajan, a Sri Lankan ...
A two day (8/9 of May) education program on international voluntary guidelines for securing sustainable small scale fisheries were conducted in National fisheries Solidarity training center.Draft guideline document which was developed through consultation of fisheries communities in 13 countries by civil organizations will take in to negotiation and then in approval in 2014 July. about 50 Fisheries leaders from 11 ...
A training workshop was conducted in National Fisheries Solidarity Movement to fisher leaders in Mannar, Jffna and Kilinochchi districts.two resource personals from CAFOD conducted the program and participant were trained to use SMS for information propagate it is expecting to distribute the information through SMS on issues arising daily from invasion of Indian fishers in SL waters and use this ...
NAFSO with fisheries community participated to united workers May Day parade and rally. The rally was held in peoples park, Gunasinghapura. Mass voiced against racism, against suppression, against violence on women and against capitalism in the 5km long walk. About thousand five hundred participants from several political parties of left, workers unions and people based organizations participated to the event. ...
