{"id":63567,"date":"2012-12-07T15:41:35","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T15:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=63567"},"modified":"2012-12-07T15:49:09","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T15:49:09","slug":"events-peoples-sovereignty-and-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/events-peoples-sovereignty-and-human-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Events: People&#8217;s Sovereignty And Human Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Platform for Freedom will be organizing a public seminar titled\u00a0<strong>&#8216;People&#8217;s Sovereignty and Human Rights&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong>to mark the 64th International Human Rights Day.<\/p>\n<p>The seminar will be held on\u00a0<strong>Monday 10th December 2012, 9.45 am to 12.15 pm at National Library Services Board Auditorium, Independence Square, Colombo 7<\/strong>. Human Rights Defenders and Civil Society Activists all over the country will be invited to attend this seminar.<\/p>\n<p>Platform for Freedom is pleased to invite you to participate in this seminar.<\/p>\n<p>Ranil Wickramasinghe; Leader of the Opposition, Dr. Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu; Executive Director; Centre for Policy Alternatives, Attorney K. W. Janaranjana; Editor in Chief of Ravaya newspaper and Attorney Sudarshana Gunawardana; Executive Director of Rights Now Collective for Democracy will deliver lectures in this seminar. \u00a0Dr.Nimalka Fernando will moderate this event.<\/p>\n<p>Please be kind enough to take your seats before 9.45 am as limited seats are available.<\/p>\n<p>Proposed agenda is as follows.<\/p>\n<p>9.45 &#8211; Welcome and Introduction to Seminar<\/p>\n<p>10.00- Speech by Mr. K. W. Janaranjana, Attorney-at-Law, Editor in Chief, Ravaya<\/p>\n<p>10.30- Speech by Dr. Paikiyasothy Saravanamuttu, Executive Director, Centre for Policy Alternative<\/p>\n<p>11.00- Speech by Mr. Sudarshana Gunawardana, Executive Director, Rights Now<\/p>\n<p>11.30- Speech by Hon. Ranil Wickramasinghe, Leader of the Opposition<\/p>\n<p>12.00- Vote of Thanks<\/p>\n<p>12.15- Conclusion of Seminar<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Sudarshana Gunawardana<\/p>\n<p>Co- Convener,<\/p>\n<p>Platform for Freedom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":63568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6738,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-events","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Events: People&#039;s Sovereignty And Human Rights - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/events-peoples-sovereignty-and-human-rights\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Events: People&#039;s Sovereignty And Human Rights - 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