Witness protection: The fulfilment of a long-felt need
Witness protection and the provision of enhanced
protection to victims of crime has been a long-felt need in Sri
Lanka. The idea of a law to address issues relating to victims of
crime and witness protection were first mooted back in 2000 by the
National Centre for Victims of Crime with an emphasis on promoting
victims’ rights.
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SAARC - Pointers for the way forward
The acronym NATO in our parlance today stands
for No Action Talk Only and this applies with more than a small
measure of justification to SAARC; for example ten years ago a Group
of Eminent Persons submitted a report to a SAARC summit proposing a
way ahead,
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The real UN
Detractors often call the United Nations a
“talking shop,” home to 192 nations and where, it’s memorably been
said, “no issue is too small to be debated endlessly.” But the real
UN, almost invisible to the general public, is an action-oriented
UN.
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