The Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI) and the Pathfinder Foundation jointly hosted a webinar on Right to Information (RTI) titled “Right to Information: Gains of the Present and Priorities for the Future: to coincide with the World Press Freedom Day, emphasizing the importance of access to information as a public good. The eminent panel of […]
The Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI) marks the World Press Freedom Day on 3rd May 2021 in concurrence with UNESCO’s commemoration of 30 years of the Windhoek Declaration under the theme “Information as a Public Good”. The completion of 30 years of the landmark Windhoek Declaration for the development of free independent and pluralistic press
The Sri Lanka Press Insitute organized a residential workshop for journalists of print and electronic media on 17th and 18th December at The Villas Wadduwa, Wadduwa. The workshop was on Reparations where SLPI in partnership with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Sri Lanka spread awareness of the Office for Reparations Act, No.34 of 2018. Resource persons
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Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI) has partnered with the Colombo Hilton to launch a PRESS CLUB. An agreement was signed last week between the Chairman of the SLPI Mr. Kumar Nadesan and the General Manager Hilton Colombo & Area General Manager Hilton Sri Lanka, Mr. Manesh Fernando. Colombo Hilton will be the host-hotel for the
The Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI) this week forwarded to the Minister of Justice, Hon. Ali Sabry MP, PC a set of proposals by The Editors Guild of Sri Lanka (TEGOSL) setting out the rationale for the codification and enactment of a Contempt of Court Act in Sri Lanka in line with many other countries. In
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இலங்கையின் நீதிமன்ற அவமதிப்புச் சட்டத்தை, ஏனைய நாடுகளில் உள்ளதைப் போன்று ஒழுங்குபடுத்தி நடைமுறைப்படுத்த வேண்டியதற்கான அடிப்படைக் காரணங்கள் தொடர்பில் இலங்கை பத்திரிகை ஆசிரியர்கள் சங்கத்தின் முன்மொழிவுகள் அடங்கிய தொகுப்பொன்றை இவ்வாரம் பாராளுமன்ற உறுப்பினரும், ஜனாதிபதி சட்டத்தரணியுமான கௌரவ நீதியமைச்சர் அலி சப்ரி அவர்களுக்கு இலங்கை பத்திரிகை ஸ்தாபனம் அனுப்பி வைத்துள்ளது. நீதி அமைச்சருக்கு அனுப்பி வைக்கப்பட்டுள்ள இக் கடிதத்தில், நீண்ட காலமாக உணரப்படும் நீதிமன்ற அவமதிப்பு தொடர்பான சட்டங்களை ஒழுங்குபடுத்துவதற்கான அவசியத்தை இலங்கை பத்திரிகை ஸ்தாபனம் சுட்டிக்காட்டிக்காட்டியுள்ளது.
වෙනත් බොහෝ රටවල පවතින ආකාරයෙන් ශ්රී ලංකාවේ අධිකරණයට අපහාස කිරීම පිළිබද නීතිය කුමක්දැයි නිසි ලෙස අර්ථ නිරූපනය කළ නීතියක් නොමැති බැවින් අධිකරණයට අපහාස කිරීම පිළිබද නීතිය පැහැදිලිව සදහන් කළ පනතක් සම්පාදනය කර බලාත්මක කිරීම සඳහා වන යෝජනාවලියක් අධිකරණ අමාත්ය, ජනාධිපති නීතීඥ අලි සබ්රි මහතා වෙත ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමට ශ්රී ලංකා කර්තෘ සංසදය සමඟ එක්ව ශ්රී ලංකා
A delegation from constituent partners and affiliates of the Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI) met the Minister of Mass Media Keheliya Rambukwella this week to request him to consult stakeholders when drafting media law reforms as had been proposed by the Minister recently. The Minister agreed to do so in the New Year. The delegation
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The Sri Lanka Press Institute in association with UNESCO, New Delhi organized an online discussion on “Women in the Media and Safety” on 18th of November 2020. This discussion was conducted via zoom technology and started at 10 am and ended at 12.30 pm. The discussion was held in Sinhala and was attended by Editors,
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The Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI) held its 17th Annual General Meeting on the 21st of October 2020 virtually using the Zoom web-conference platform, attended by representatives of its constituent partners – the Newspaper Society of Sri Lanka, The Editors’ Guild of Sri Lanka, the Free Media Movement, the Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association and
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