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The SCOPP was created with the following goals: to help implement government decisions, monitor the ceasefire agreement between the government and the LTTE, provide research and logical support to the government during political negotiations and to the National Advisory Council on Peace and Reconciliation, coordinate with local and international organizations on matters pertaining to the peace ...
International Association of Youth and Students for Peace, Inc. 2023 InterPride [62] 2023 Human Rights Protection Group & MFP Federation [63] 2023 God's Arm Global Foundation [62] 2023 The VII Foundation: 2023 WOMENVAI - the International NGO of Women and Men Engineers and Scientists in Environment and ICTs/Artificial Intelligence: 2024 AWAQ ONGD.
A non-governmental organization (NGO) is an independent, typically nonprofit organization that operates outside government control. NGOs often focus on humanitarian or social issues but can also include clubs and associations offering services to members. Some NGOs, like the World Economic Forum, may also act as lobby groups for corporations.
After Selvarasa Pathmanathan alias KP was captured by Sri Lankan military intelligence operatives in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia in August 2009, he was brought into Sri Lanka. Since then, as a result of confidence and understanding shared between Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and KP, he began to collaborate with Sri Lankan Government. [ 2 ]
Sri Lanka has a number of think tanks that are in the form of governmental, non-governmental and corporate organizations. The Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute of International Relations and Strategic Studies is a policy-studies institute that is often referred to as a think tank.
Foreign funding of NGOs, including newspapers, also occurs in Nigeria. [10] Nigeria adopted a law restricting foreign funding in 2017, closely modeled on a similar law adopted by Sierra Leone in 2016. Freedom House stated that the law could lead to "improper state control of NGO programs, if not outright co-optation of NGOs". [9]
Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace and Justice is an international, non profit, human rights group founded in 2009 to seek justice for thousands of Tamils killed during the final stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War and promote lasting peace. [1] Charu Lata Hogg is the chair of the group and advisory council members include Lakhdar Brahimi. [2] [3] [4] [5]
Though the conflict was between the Tamil and Sinhalese people, India and Sri Lanka signed the peace accord instead of India influencing both parties to sign a peace accord among themselves. The peace accord assigned a certain degree of regional autonomy in the Tamil areas, with Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF) controlling ...