The Registrar General’s Department says the Details of Marriage and Ethnic Group will no longer be required for the registration of a birth.Registrar General N. C. Vithanage speaking to News 1st said the requirements of such particulars will be removed from the Application Form for the registration of a birth in Sri Lanka.He said many children in the country face …
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Dr. A.M.A. Azeez Commemoration Meeting – 21st Jan 2020
The Dr. A.M.A. Azeez Commemoration Meeting and the Memorial Oration will be held on Tuesday 21st January 2020 at 4.30 p.m. at the Ghaffoor Hall, Zahira College, 406, Orabi Pasha Mawatha, Colombo 10.Dr. Farzana Haniffa, Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Colombo, will deliver the Oration on the subject of “Activism in Uncertain Times: Revisiting the ‘Good Minority’ Classification …
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The Dr. A.M.A. Azeez Commemoration Meeting and the Memorial Oration will be held on Tuesday 27th November 2018 at 4.30 p.m. at the Ghaffoor Hall, Zahira College, 406, Orabi Pasha Mawatha, Colombo 10.Desamanya M.D.D. Pieris, formerly of the Ceylon Civil Service and Secretary to the Prime Minister, will deliver the Oration on the subject of Sinhala Muslim Relations in Sri Lanka.The …
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Dzenana Brkic from Bosnia was born blind but that did not stop her from becoming an inspirational writer who encourages others to achieve their dreams. Dzenana Brkic (22) is a very brave young woman from a small town Busovaca (Bosnia and Herzegovina). She was born blind. Given the hard circumstances during the war in Bosnia (92-95), not much could be …
Read More »Reality and the U.S.-Made Famine in Yemen by Kathy Kelly
This week at the Voices for Creative Nonviolence office in Chicago, my colleague Sabia Rigby prepared a presentation for a local high school. She’ll team up with a young friend of ours, himself a refugee from Iraq, to talk about refugee crises driven by war. Sabia recently returned from Kabul where she helped document the young Afghan Peace Volunteers’ efforts …
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