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Tax concessions for institutions providing health and education services to disabled children.
Need to align labor laws with global standards like ILO’s C190 and C180
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Higher Education Ministry to introduce new regulations and a hotline for tips against ragging in universities
Dissanayake's new govt has promised to address rights abuses, but has rejected UN resolution
Sri Lanka's successive governments have failed to cooperate with UNHRC probe on rights abuses
The move also comes ahead of September’s United Nations Human Right Council (UNHRC).
UN Human Right Council (UNHRC) session in September
"We do not endorse the view that homosexuality is due to a disease of the mind or body."
The video circulated online showed a counsellor openly making homophobic remarks at a police training in Kandy.
As recently as October 2020, the SJB leader called it an “urgent need” of the hour.
Amnesty International said Hizbullah was detained on "trumped-up charges" under the "draconian" PTA.
The report noted, among other issues, an alleged increase in surveillance and intimidation of civil society.
However, the family has yet to arrive at a final decision, she said.
"... not favors to friends or blatantly cynical measures to keep trade preferences," the HRW South Asia Director said.
“I won’t have to face punishment because I have not done any wrong.”
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Reports showed inmates at the Welikada prison protesting from the roof of a building at the prison premises.
"Another example of selective, arbitrary granting of pardons that weakens rule of law and undermines accountability"
"We regret the lack of progress on these issues, with a number of further concerning developments," the core group said.
"The Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) is revisiting provisions in the PTA as has already been communicated to the EU."
The party said the EU resolution is yet another foreign policy failure of the Sri Lanka government.
The EU expressed deep concern over Sri Lanka's "alarming path towards the recurrence of grave human rights violations"
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