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By Suresh Perera
With travel restrictions in place to stem the alarming tide of the Covid-19 pandemic, health officials expressed optimism of pinning down the transmission of the deadly virus to a manageable level if the public adhered to stipulated preventive guidelines.
In the backdrop of overwhelmed medical facilities as positive case numbers continued to spike after the national New Year festivities, the government earlier imposed an inter-provincial travel ban before opting for a three-day country-wide prohibition on public movement. Only essential services have been allowed to operate.
The travel restrictions are expected to end at 4.00 am on Monday (17) after an overall evaluation of the situation, they said.
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COLOMBO (News1st): The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) has observed that children’s rights are violated under the current procedure to enrol students in schools.
In a letter to the education ministry, the HRCSL called on authorities to amend the regulations on enrolling students in schools.
The letter insisted that documents proving the occupancy of a home must be taken into account instead of house deeds when enrolling children.
It observed that the current system in which additional points are offered for producing a land deed certifying ownership violates constitutional rights.
The Human Rights Commission also called on the education ministry to abolish the system of enrolling students based on religion.
even if the adversary aims at us the stone in the catapult sling,
and aims the arrow at us, with his bow.
Even if we have to walk through fire, Languish without food, Be struck with disease,
We will follow the path of Ahimsa (non violence)”
Thaneer (Water) by Ahnaf Jazeem from the collection “Navarasam” (Nine Emotions) translated by Professor Sumathy Sivamohan and Dr. Mahendran Thiruvarangan
Ahnaf Jazeem is a 26-year-old Muslim poet from the remote village of Chilawathurai in the Mannar District. In another poem in the book “Navarasam” published in June 2017, Ahnaf had said that he will only celebrate Eid al-Fitr (the end of the Ramadan fast) when there is a new world free of war as Muslims all over the world are suffering due to the hate and fire spread by the black-clad Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). At this year’s Eid, Ahnaf has been suffering in prison for 363 days without charge, with no courts examining his detention, no meaningful access to lawyers