.: The civil society Forum of Eastern province

The civil society Forum of Eastern province was held at Trincomalee on 13^th June 2019. People Alliance for Right to Land (PARL) was organized the meeting. Trincomalee District citizens voice members, HEO members from Akkarapaththu and DIFSO civil society leaders from Ampara District Participated the meeting. They discussed the current situation on their land struggles and also the challenges that they faced after 21of April attack. Finally, they developed six-month action plan and decided to meet next August.

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NAFSO (National Fisheries Solidarity Movement), organizes fishermen to lobby the government to defend their rights and to bring about good environmental practice in coastal areas. ...NAFSO has helped a fishing community to take legal action against a proposal to build a five-star hotel on a mangrove where fish spawn."We are not against hotels, because they bring tourism and income. But 3,000 families and 15,000 fishermen use this lagoon and all of them could be affected by the developments. Only 200 would be employed by the hotel. The lagoon is our mother, and we must protect her." Jude Preman Fernando, local fisherman. At the present situation we are continuing our campaign with small scale fishermen to urge the government to take legal action against Destructive Fishing Practices around the coastal areas of Sri Lanka. View my complete profile

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The civil society Forum of Eastern province