Hemantha Withanage Executive Director, Centre for Environmental Justice Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksha issued a gazette No. 2222/13 – MONDAY, APRIL 05, 2021 banning oil palm cultivation in Sri Lanka. The...
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The National Symposium on Human-Elephant Conflict on “Human-Elephant Conflict in Sri Lanka: Lessons Learnt during 2000 – 2020”
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Elevated Highway from New Kelani Bridge to Rajagiriya with a Link to Baseline Road
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his publication provides basics legal provisions for protecting your environmental rights. It covers the environmental laws and the law related to fundemental rights and fighting against nuisance. Writer: Ravindranath...
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Ongoing and most recent court cases of CEJ
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Protect Residual Forests or Declare Grassland as Forests
Hemantha Withanage,Executive Director, Centre for Environmental Justice Today,(26 june, 2020) CEJ sent a letter of demand to the Secretary of the Ministry of Environment demanding him to protect the 5/2001 circular...
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CEJ wins -Wilpattu judgment issued
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Ruwanpura Expressway Project- EIA comments
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Uma Oya case – SC FR 273/15
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Meethotamulla Garbage Case(SC FR 152/2017)
This case was filed on 31st May 2017 in the Supreme Court against the violation of fundamental rights by the unnecessary garbage dumping management of the government in Sri Lanka. Petitioners have complained to the...
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