07/09/2010
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BBC Sinhala
Sri Lanka’s former President, Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumarathunga, has denied accusations that she influenced the European Union to withdraw the special trade concessions to Sri Lanka.
07/07/2010
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Asia Times, Inter Press Service
COLOMBO - When garment factory workers outside Colombo once organized a noisy protest over a bonus issue, police threatened to file charges - of hostage-taking - against them. The Sri Lankan authorities zeroed in on this because the workers' senior managers were inside the factory premises during the protest.
07/06/2010
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New York Times
MUMBAI — The European Union is suspending preferential treatment for Sri Lankan imports because it says the government has not committed to resolving human rights complaints.
07/05/2010
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Examiner.com
Sri Lanka has failed to implement UN human rights conventions and gets punished by the European Union from next month, the EU announced on Monday.
07/05/2010
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AFP
BRUSSELS — The European Union decided Monday to withdraw trade concessions in August granted to Sri Lanka after the government failed to make a written commitment to improve its human rights record.
06/24/2010
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Earth Times
Colombo – The Sri Lankan government Thursday declared thatit would refuse visas for UN panel members appointed to investigatealleged human rightsabuses during the civil war against Tamil rebels.
06/24/2010
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AFP
COLOMBO — Sri Lanka Thursday trashed "insulting" EU demands that it make a written undertaking to improve its human rights record in exchange for trade benefits.