{"id":140279,"date":"2015-03-01T16:34:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T11:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=140279"},"modified":"2015-03-12T02:00:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T20:30:57","slug":"new-report-reveals-tourism-development-in-sl-has-resulted-in-human-rights-abuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/new-report-reveals-tourism-development-in-sl-has-resulted-in-human-rights-abuses\/","title":{"rendered":"New Report Reveals Tourism Development In SL Has Resulted In Human Rights Abuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two human rights organisations,\u00a0the Society for Threatened Peoples and Sri Lanka Campaign,\u00a0have called upon the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) to ensure that the prevalent tourism strategy changes as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=tourism&amp;x=7&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">tourism<\/span><\/a> development programs followed during the past few years have resulted in gross human rights abuses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Sri-Lanka-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-140280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Sri-Lanka-.jpg\" alt=\"Sri Lanka\" width=\"309\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Sri-Lanka-.jpg 309w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Sri-Lanka--214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px\" \/><\/a>Switzerland based, the Society for Threatened Peoples has compiled <a href=\"http:\/\/assets.gfbv.ch\/downloads\/pdf_e_langversion.pdf\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">a report<\/span><\/a> based on a study they conducted titled \u2018Dark Clouds over the sunshine paradise \u2013 tourism and human rights in Sri Lanka\u2019 that reveals that systematic human rights abuses have occurred in the country due to tourism development and particularly due to the military involvement in tourism development.<\/p>\n<p>The report notes that human rights abuses have occurred due to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Access for fishermen to the sea, being blocked<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Land+grab&amp;x=8&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Land grabbing<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Local population being insufficiently informed about planned tourism projects<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The report states that through their study it was found that over 1200 families were affected in the newly development tourist regions including Kuchchaveli, Passikudah and kalpitiya, due to these issues and notes that, \u2018While GoSL spreads the image of a country that has returned to normality, the reality appears much more disturbing. . .\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The study had also found that the military increasingly focusing its budget on tours with the Army, Navy and Air Force operating hotels and increasingly offering tourism activities is problematic as it deprives local population of a valuable income sources and also raises major concerns regarding transparency.<\/p>\n<p>The STP has demanded the following from the tourist agencies to better exercise their due diligence concerning human rights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To refrain from offering hotels built on grabbed land that restrict access for fisherman to the sea that discriminates women, minorities and those that forbid or restrict unionization of employees.<\/li>\n<li>Refrain from offering hotels that are managed by the military or offer activities provided by the military as long as it cannot be prov en that it wasn&#8217;t based on illegal land grabbing or other human rights abuse<\/li>\n<li>Regularly monitor and ensure the exercise of due diligence concerning human rights throughout the entire value added chain including hotels and other tourist activities and ensure no human rights are violation<\/li>\n<li>Introduce a grievance mechanism for affected populations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":140280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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