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Overview of the Peace Process in Sri Lanka: 2002 – 2003

Overview of the Peace Process in Sri Lanka: 2002 – 2003, paper by Sanjana Hattotuwa, Research Associate, CPA, for conference on Strengthening Cooperation and Security in South Asia-Post 9/11 organised by Bangladesh Enterprise Institute (BEI), 1-3 July 2003, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Overview of the Peace Process in Sri Lanka: 2002 – 2003

The Right to Vote: Its Impact on Election Laws in Sri Lanka

The Right to Vote: Its Impact on Election Laws in Sri Lanka (Sundari de Alwis and Rohan Edrisinha) – Background Paper presented by Rohan Edrisinha at the Seminar The Right to Vote and the Law Relating to Election Petitions.The Right to Vote: Its Impact on Election Laws in Sri LankaThe Right to Vote: Its Impact […]

A commentary on the Discussion of the PA-UNP Consensus on the New Constitution for Sri Lanka

A commentary on the Discussion of the PA-UNP Consensus on the New Constitution for Sri Lanka held on 29th July and 5th August 2000 at the BMICH – By the Conflict & Peace Analysis Programme, Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) and a background paper titled “DEVOLUTION: From 13th Amendment to the New Constitution Bill – […]

A Model Freedom of Information Law and the Chapter on Sri Lanka

A Model Freedom of Information Law and the Chapter on Sri Lanka (from the publication 'Global Trends on the Right to Information: A Survey of South Asia') which were discussed, and the Recommendations passed at the International Conference on The Right to Information: Focus on South Asia held at Hotel Galadari Colombo, from 29th to […]

Human Rights Violations of Internally Displaced Persons and Government Policies classified by reference to the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement

A study of ‘Human Rights Violations of Internally Displaced Persons and Government Policies classified by reference to the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement’ prepared by the Legal Unit of CPA and presented at a Seminar on Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons – The Sri Lankan Challenge’ held at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute […]

Paper on the President’s power to dissolve Parliament

Paper by Asanga Welikala, Research Associate (Legal and Constitutional Unit) on the President's power to dissolve Parliament.

Draft Freedom of Information Bill

Draft Freedom of Information Bill prepared in association with the Free Media Movement (FMM) and the Editor's Guild of Sri Lanka (EGSL) for consideration by the government.Draft Freedom of Information Bill