Economic benefits for all

All human endeavours are in some way connected with a broad perspective of human rights. For instance what appears to be a purely economic-development oriented project will improve the people's quality of life, their access to goods and services and will lead to a broadening of their choices and opportunities. Ultimately, this leads to the fuller realization of their human rights.

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Meditation on patriotism and internationalism

The Morning Inspection - Malinda

Jayantha Dhanapala, speaking at the launch of the first volume of Judge C G Weeramantry’s biography, Towards one world, describe this exceptional human being as a patriot and an internationalist. Some would say that the two are incompatible, that a patriot (a term associated with nation) cannot be an internationalist and that an internationalist, by definition, cannot be a patriot.

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World Human Rights Day:

Enabling ‘right to access for all’

Indispensable need for Sri Lanka:

A formidable and sustainable national economy is an imperative national goal. Its achieving requires an accelerated plan of action to empower people. Three prerequisites here are: Optimising human potential through productive integration into society of everyone, minimising unwanted dependency and establishing a society that values difference and respects the equality of all human beings.

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