-To prepared a database on civil organizations.
-To conduct workshops on Human Rights requested by Civil Society organizations.
-Promotion of Elders Rights.\
- Intervene to regulate and form Human Rights education comprehensively.
A request was made to the Commission to conduct continuous meetings with civil society
organizations. Also activities with civil organizations were carried out accordingly to the work
plan. In addition, the Commission decided to take into consideration a proposal submitted by
the Centre for Alternative Policy Studies to have a separate Chapter on the activities carried
out by the Commission relating to the protection, monitoring, promotion and the providing
advice on human rights, in the Annual Report of the Commission.
In the year 2013 meetings were also held jointly with civil organizations at provincial level.
Working in collaboration with the HELPAGE Organization on the protection of elder’s rights,
jointly working with the Sri Lanka Association for Advancement of Education (SLAAD) on
the matter of including human rights in the school curriculum, working in collaboration with
the American Solidarity Centre and the Law and Society Trust on the rights of migrant workers
and with the PAFEREL to assure voters rights are few examples for instances where the
Commission worked in cooperation with Civil Organizations.
4.2. Corporation with Government and Non Government Organizations
Director, Education and Special Programme has represented the Commission in extending
its cooperation to the Committee on the Review of Professional Ethics of the National
Institute for Mental Health. The Commission also took part in a workshop held by the
Committee jointly conducted with the Sri Lanka Medical Officer Associations. Policies,
professional ethics international guidelines, accidents and privileges, privacy and
confidentiality in human experiment were areas discussed during the workshop.
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