Workshop on Duty Bearers’ Responsibility to Ensure a Right Based Public Service
State is the primary duty bearers to respect, protect and fulfill rights of the people. There
are several governmental mechanisms to ensure the peoples’ rights and needs. The
HRCSL receives number of complaints against the public services every year. These
complaints especially relate to inaction by the officers of the public service. Therefore
based on this analysis one day awareness programme was developed for government
officers titled “how to ensure a rights based public service”. The first programme was
held on 13.10.2014 at the Auditorium of the Puttalam District Secretariat. There were 60
Tamil medium government officers who participated the programme.
The other programme was conducted on 13.12.2014 at the same venue. More than 60
Sinhala medium government officers participated on this day.
Human Rights Training Programme for Journalists
Identifying the importance of giving trainings to journalists a special manual was
developed by the Human Rights Commission targeting journalists. Two days human
rights training programme for journalists was organized in Matara from 07th – 08th
November 2014 at the Gaga Addara Hotel, Matara. Forty five (45) journalists from
different part of Matara District Participated.
Human Rights Training Programme for Youth
In the global world youth is actively engaged in political, economic and social process.
They are the future leaders of the country.
The HRCSL developed a special training programme for youth and the first programme
was held on 13, 14 and 15 November 2014 at the Auditorium of The Department of
Forest at Nuwara Eliya with the participation of more than 150 Sinhala and Tamil
speaking youth.
The Commission developed a special Human Rights Module for Youth which it includes:
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