Civil unrest and role of migrant workers

Although Article 27 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties of 1969 requires States not to invoke provisions of their internal laws as justification for failure to comply with the provisions of a treaty, States are free to choose the means of implementation they see fit according to their traditions and political organization ,

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The Morning Inspection

First love is also the last, what do you say Hiran?

Yesterday my friend Hiran Kulatilake sent me a short note. He wanted me to write about ‘first love’, about the pivithuru palamu pema or the pure first love and comment on the bihisuni bindunu pema the tragedy of a love that’s over.

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Glaucoma ‘Silent blinding disease’

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Raising awareness on the disease is very important as Glaucoma is the second most common cause of blindness worldwide. It is estimated that 4.5 million people globally are blind due to this disease and that this number will rise to 11.2 million by 2020 with the increasing number of elderly people in the world by that year.

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