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Training Programme on child rights for newly recruited school teachers
by the Kalmunai regional office on 27 January 2020.
Community mobile services
The Commission and the Regional Offices provided assistance to mobile
services organized by the Ministry of Justice and Law Reform for
marginalized groups in several parts of the country. As such, the HRCSL
Regional Office in Matara provided assistance to mobile services in Ratgama
and Bope. Due to the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic the Commission was
not in a position to conduct community mobile services under its own
auspices as in the previous years.
5.2. Sharing knowledge with other public
institutions/programmes
The Commission, through its Head Office and the Regional Offices, also
provides assistance by way of resources persons to programmes conducted
by other public institutions and actively contributed to discussions of
relevance to the Commission convened by other public institutions. During
2020, the head office and regional offices of the HRCSL conducted lectures
and participated in discussions on topics of interest such as:
a) A lecture on minority rights as part of periodic workshops organized
by the Directorate of Humanitarian Law and Human Rights of the Sri
Lanka Army.
b) The discussion on constitutional reforms organized by the
Department of Law, University of Peradeniya on 29 September 2020.
c) An awareness session on fundamental rights, child rights, and the
role of the HRCSL for the students of the College of Technology,
Badulla on 28 February 2020.
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