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| UN chief dismayed by Saudi beheading of Sri Lanka maid |
| 2013-01-13 |
Reuters/Reuters - Demonstrators hold up an image of Rizana Nafeek as they shout slogans during a protest against her execution, in Colombo January 11, 2013. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed dismay on Friday at the execution of a Sri Lankan housemaid in Saudi Arabia over the death of an infant in her care.
Rizana Nafeek was beheaded in the town of Dawadmy, near the capital Riyadh, on Wednesday morning after being sentenced to death in 2007. She was accused
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| PSUNU to other unions: Don’t hold patients to ransom |
| 2013-01-13 |
Some trade unions were holding patients to ransom to win their demands but their efforts would be in vain, Public Service United Nurses Union(PSUNU), President Ven. Murutettuwe Ananda thera warned yesterday.
The launching of strikes should be the last resort to win the demands of trade unions. The present government was ready to listen to the trade unions. Likewise the Minister and the Director of Health Services were willing to discuss job-related problems of the unions, he said.
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| Knowledge, key to mitigating child abuse - Minister |
| 2013-01-13 |
Child abuse can be mitigated and lessened by strengthening and enhancing the existing knowledge, skills and capacity of child protection and social protection actors, Child Development and Women's Affairs Minister Tissa Karaliyadda said.
The Minister was addressing a capacity building training project for the child and social protection actors in the North and East in the government sector. This curriculum, skills and capacity development project will be carried out by the Sri Lanka Foundation and Child Devel
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| Rizana Nafeek: Sorrowful Story of The Maid From Moothoor |
| 2013-01-13 |
When news of the loss of a loved one is heard ,it is the practice of many Muslims to console each other by repeating part of a verse from the Holy Quran “Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un” meaning “Surely we belong to God and to Him shall we return”. The phrase is commonly translated as “Verily we belong to God, and to God we return.”
Abu Musa Abd –Allah ibn Qays al-Ashari better known as Abu Musa al-Ashari , a companion of Prophet Muhammad and a prominent persona
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| LLRC & the Lessons on Devolution: Sri Lanka’s LLRC Revisited |
| 2013-01-12 |
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Learning lessons is a humbling experience. It takes place with the admission that one has made mistakes. Having made them, one feels the adverse consequences; having felt them, one realizes the importance of learning from those mistakes, learning not to repeat them, learning the required lessons. In the realm of politics, then, this process, this matter of learning lessons, is an extremely humbling and bold exercise.
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| CID reveals more about O/L Science paper leak |
| 2013-01-12 |
The CID informed the Kaduwela magistrate’s court yesterday that they suspect more than 2,000 copies of the scanned science question paper of the G.C.E (O/L) examination had been distributed among tuition going students of Colombo, Gampaha and surrounding areas.
The CID also told court that they were in the process of obtaining statements f rom several students.
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| JHU asks Govt. to stop sending women to Saudi |
| 2013-01-12 |
Following the beheading of Sri Lankan housemaid Rizana Nafeek in Saudi Arabia, the Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) yesterday called on the government to reconsider its policy of sending women to Saudi Arabia for employment.
JHU Leader, Ven. Omalpe Sobitha thera, in a press release, said that the government should consider sending only trained male employers abroad from Sri Lanka and that too after considering the age of the individual. The thera also suggested that the government bans sending Sri Lankan employers to c
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| Pillay condemns Rizana’s execution |
| 2013-01-12 |
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay today condemned the execution of Sri Lankan housemaid Rizana Nafeek in Saudi Arabia.
Rizana Nafeek, who arrived in Saudi Arabia from Sri Lanka to work as a housemaid in 2005, was charged with the murder of her employers’ baby a week after her arrival.
Despite a birth certificate that allegedly showed she was a minor at the time of the baby’s death and repeated expressions of concern from the international community, she w
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| Immediately prevent military teachers. |
| 2013-01-12 |
Teachers Federation writes to Governor
Sri Lanka Teachers Federation had forwarded a letter urging Northern Province Governor and Northern Province education ministry Secretary and Sri Lanka teacher’s federation to immediately halt military to teach education in schools.
Federation General Secretary Joseph Stanlin said, such activities of military should be impeded and this acts are strongly condemned by his association.
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| Mervyn issued notice from SLFP |
| 2013-01-12 |
The SLFP last evening has asked minister Mervyn Silva to tender his resignation, temporarily as organizer for Kelaniya.
The SLFP has decided to remove Mr. Mervyn silva for activities as Organiser for Kelaniya, until the investigations in to the assassination of PS member Mr. Hasitha Madawela have been completed, according to a Snr SLFP’er.
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