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ජලය රඳනා සෑම ස්ථානයක්ම පිරිසුඳුව තබැ ගැනීමෙන් මෙම තත්න්වය වලක්වා ගත හැකි වේ.

Exhibition on environmental protection comes a year after Laudato si’ (Video)

Exhibition on environmental protection comes a year after Laudato si’ (Video) Melani Manel Perera Sri Lanka’s largest Catholic movement of renewal in the Holy Spirit organised the event. Thousands of kids visited the three-day exhibit. Copies of the encyclical in the local languages were handed out. Colombo (AsiaNews) – A year after the publication of Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato si’ on the care of creation, Sri Lankan Catholics have renewed their commitment to environmental protection. Thousands of young people took part in the activities organised by Kithu Dana Pubuduwa, Sri Lanka’s largest Catholic movement of renewal in the Holy Spirit, which organised an exhibition on the current challenges faced by the climate and the environment (see video). The event took place on 3-5 June in Sri Prasansaraamaya, Ragama, a suburb of Colombo. Delryn Wingaratne, member of the organising committee, told AsiaNews, "Our goal is to promote food that is free of toxins and a clean environment, as well as protect the land, water and food from chemical poisoning." According to Fr Daya Shelton Welikadaarachchi, "you have to start with the children. Children must be stimulated at school, in the family and in society. Parents must guide them and make them understand the importance of protecting the environment. Parents should tell them that the environment is a beautiful creation of God, that we must respect it and protect it for our children and future generations." Exhibit organisers set up various stands to show organic farming techniques, screened films, held short debates, and got people to sign a 14-point petition to be handed over to the government. The petition calls on the government to "protect our common home". At the same time, the group expects to see it become more involved with the international community. Ranjana Kaviratna, a member of Kithu Dana Pubuduwa’s organising committee, said she was happy that so many students came. "On the first day alone, about 2,000 kids saw the exhibit. The flow remained steadily high until the end. On Sunday, many students attending Sunday school came to deepen their knowledge of environmental issues. Either we protect our world, or we let it be destroyed." According to analysts, humans are the main factor in environmental degradation. In recent weeks, Sri Lanka saw the consequences of unfettered exploitation of the land, such as sand and rock mining as well as unregulated discharge of sewage. Sister Rose Jayasinghe, from the Convent of the Sacred Family in Boralessa, wants to "see respect for the environment taught in every school, from kindergarten to universities. What is needed is a real conversion, a new vision and a new spirituality in the field of ecology." Copies of the encyclical in local languages were handed out during the exhibit. On the last day, Fr Shelton gave a lecture on chapters 5 and 6 of Laudato si’ (on the ‘Lines of approach and action’ and ‘Ecological education and spirituality’), stressing that the world in which we live is God’s creation."
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පරිසරය සහ එහි වැදගත්කම විදහා දැක්වෙන ප‍්‍රදර්ශනය, ජූනි මස 03,04,05 යන දිනයන්හිදී, දියගල ප‍්‍රසංශාරාමයේදී පැවැත්විය. මුහුදු වෙරළ හා ධීවර පරිසරය දුෂණයෙන් සිදුවන විනාශය, හා සංරක්‍ෂණය කීරීමේ අවශ්‍යතාවය පිළිබඳ ප‍්‍රදර්ශන කුටිය, ජාතික ධීවර සහයෝගිතා ව්‍යාපාරයේ තරුණ අංශය මගින් ක‍්‍රියාත්මක කරණ ලදී.

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පුත්තලම මුන්දලමේ මoගලඑලිය, කට්ටකඩුව සoචාරක පක්ශීන්ගේ අභය භූමිය ඉහත අයුරින් වනසා ඈති අයුරු ඉහත දෑක්වේ.

 පුත්තලම මුන්දලමේ මoගලඑලිය, කට්ටකඩුව සoචාරක පක්ශීන්ගේ අභය භූමිය ඉහත අයුරින් වනසා ඈත. එසේ විනාශ කර තිබෙන්නේ ලුණු ලේවායක් ඉදිකිරීම සදහාය. මෙම ලේවාය ඉදිකරීම නීති විරෝදි වන අතර අඩුම තරමේ ඊ.අයි.ඒ වාර්තාවක්වත් නොමෑතිව ඉදිකර අති මෙම ලුණු ලේවාය හෙතුවෙන් අවට ගම්වාසීන්ගේ ජලයේ සහ හමන සුලගේ ලවණතවය ඉහල ගොස් අති බෑවින් නිවස දියවීමට පටන්ගේන ඈත හා ජලය පරිබෝජනයද අඩාල වී ඈත. මේ විනාශයට රටෙ නීතිය ක්‍රියාත්මක වන අයුරු  අපි බල සිටිමු.

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Stories of WhyHunger Ally the National Fisheries Solidarity Movement (NAFSO), and Fishing Communities in Sri Lanka.

This is the 1^st in a 3-part series of articles on NAFSO and the communities whose rights it defends.

Part 1: Resilience, the Struggle for Human Rights, and a Decade of Hardship

There are hundreds of thousands of fishing families in Sri Lanka, and they rely on the fish they catch to feed their children and earn a livelihood. They fish from small boats, using nets they cast by hand. In some cases, fishermen cast their nets directly from the beach and work cooperatively to bring in the day’s catch. Women and widows earn a small living by drying and selling the fish that is caught by these small-scale fishermen. They live from the sea and want to be able to catch enough fish for their families and neighbors and earn a fair price at the market. They are connected to the sea and the many lagoons along Sri Lanka’s coast, and they want to take care of the ocean that provides their livelihood.

But Sri Lanka’s policies have made it and continue to make it impossible for fishers in Sri Lanka to survive and feed their families.

In 2004, thousands of fishing boats along the southern coast of Sri Lanka were destroyed in the tsunami, along with homes, nets, and the lives of too many fishermen. Communities in southern Sri Lanka are still rebuilding from the tsunami almost a decade later, but support from the government that was promised for new boats, new nets, and rebuilt homes was either too little or it never came. Widows with children were impacted worst of all, because they had little or no way to support their families once they lost their husbands.

When the 30-year civil war ended in 2009, fishing communities in the north had their lands taken by the military. They were forbidden from fishing, because the military said they were a security risk, and they watched as foreign fishing boats fished in their waters and tourist hotels sprouted on their beaches while their families went hungry.

Then, in 2012, the government raised the price of fuel by 30%, a sudden price hike that fishermen all over the country could simply not afford. There was no way for them to fish when their fuel costs were that high, meaning that they had no way to feed their families or earn a living.

Communities Taking Action

So in June, women in fishing communities led a four day hunger strike continuing to protest the rise of the price of fuel . And in October, fishermen in the north of the country submitted to a petition to the government to stop Indian boats from fishing illegally in Sri Lankan waters and damaging the ocean floor with their “bottom-trawling” gear, while fishermen in the south of the country demonstrated in front of the Fisheries Ministry to protest Chinese trawlers that are also fishing illegally in Sri Lankan waters and destroying fishing grounds with their bottom trawling.

And on October 10^th, thousands of farming and fishing families launched a week-long,400-mile march and “Awareness Caravan” across the island nation of Sri Lanka, to protest the new “Seed Act.” The caravan culminated on October 16th, World Food Day, in a march of thousands of farmers and fishers carrying banners and signs and featuring an altar displaying traditional Sri Lankan seeds and food. This proposed seed law would privatize seeds and outlaw seed-saving. According to the fishing and farming families who rely on traditional seeds, the law would criminalize their livelihoods and pave the way for increased land-grabbing, pollution and poverty by industrial agribusiness.

Human Rights and Food Sovereignty

These actions and demonstrations were supported by the National Fisheries Solidarity Movement (NAFSO), a national network of fishers’ organizations in Sri Lanka that works for food sovereignty and the right to food and against the damaging policies of “development” that hurt small-scale food producers the most, including farmers and farmworkers.

NAFSO also provides direct support to communities, what they call “survival programs,” like small boats for fishermen and seeds and tools for families to start small, sustainable food gardens. NAFSO also provides widows with basic supports like chicken coops and baby chicks to provide healthy food to their kids and earn a living. NAFSO also provides support to community leaders in the fisher organizations. They provided training and support in organizing to the families of the town of Negombo to stop a government plan to build large seaplane dock, meant as a transportation hub for tourists, right in the middle of the lagoon the community relied on for fish. NAFSO helped them to organize support from religious leaders and local politicians, and with NAFSO’s support, the leaders from the community stopped the project and saved the fishery. WhyHunger is proud to support NAFSO and to be in solidarity with the social movements of fishers and farmers of Sri Lanka.

But direct support to communities and even protests and demonstrations against unjust and destructive policies and projects cannot solve the problems that food producers face in Sri Lanka. Fishing families face hunger and poverty because the model of “development” does not value small food producers. The real solution is creating and advancing a new paradigm of development, centered in the human rights of food producers living off the land and the sea.

Advancing this paradigm of food sovereignty is why NAFSO has spent over a decade working on a global policy for small-scale fisheries at the United Nations. Through theWorld Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP), NAFSO was able to pass the Guidelines on Small-Scale Fisheries (VGSSF), which gives new human rights protections to small fishing communities that have never existed: small-scale fisheries are recognized as being critical to ensuring food security and governments are recognized as having a responsibility to protect them.

NAFSO recently translated these Guidelines into Tamil and Sinhala (the two languages used in Sri Lanka) and traveled to different communities in Sri Lanka, training over 150 leaders in these new rights. Even though these Guidelines are “voluntary,” social movements like NAFSO are using them to push their governments toward food sovereignty. NAFSO’s work, and human rights instruments like these Guidelines, prioritize small-scale food production over profits, and the rights of the most vulnerable over the profits of the most powerful. Only transforming our priorities to recognize the rights of small-scale food producers, not charity or welfare, can end hunger and poverty.

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