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Water, air, land, are the basic natural resources for life. The earth is our mother. Oceans, forests, rivers, wetlands, arid zones even deserts are the habitats for living things. Humans, as well as all other living things have a right to nature and its resources. We all have equal environmental rights.
The Natural environment is at risk today. Good environmental governance is far behind our expectations. We believe that environmental protection should be done at all levels. While government has a major role to play, every citizen has a responsibility to care for the environment in which we live.
Centre for Environmental Justice is a new initiative to protect the environment, to ensure equal environmental rights for all people and to promote ecological sustainability by supporting environmentally sound community activities.
Our Dream is to see a world that does not fight over nature and its resources; to see environmental peace within and across borders and to see and live in environmentally responsible communities.
We hope to see a world which shares the remaining natural resources and respects the environmental rights of all. Our task is to protect and conserve these natural resources; to preserve the ancient wisdom that enabled us to live in harmony with nature; to fight for better environmental governance for a sustainable future and for a better world which has environmental justice and equity. |
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Ravindranath Dabare- Chairperson |
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Hemantha Withanage - Director |
Ravindranath Dabare is the Chairperson of the of |
Hemantha Withanage is the founder and the Executive Director |
the Centre for Environmental Justice.He is an old Anandian and a Mechanical Engineer. Later he became an attorney-at-Law. He is also a lecturer in Law. Mr Dabare is also a Presenter of the Sri Lanka Rupawahini Corporation. He also served as a Advisory Board Member to the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation. Formerly he served as the Community Legal Officer of the Ministry of Justice and Legal Officer of the Legal Aid Commission. He was the Former Senior Legal Officer of the Environmental Foundation Ltd. He serves as the Legal Officer for the Old Anandian Media Circle. During his service at the EFL he filed several law suits including the case for the Protection of Muthurajawela santuary, the case against Oxime Carbamate containers and the case against the degazetting of Karagan Lewaya Santuary. |
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of Centre for Environmental Justice.He also the Convenor of Sri Lankan Working Group on Trade and IFIs. Hemantha served as the Environmental Officer, Senior Environmental Scientist and the Executive Director positions at the Environmental Foundation Ltd., since 1990. He was an active member of the following International Committees and Networks during past years; Elected International Convener of the NGO Forum on Asian Development Bank 2002 and 2003(term ended on July 2004), Executive Committee member of the FOEI (Friends of the Earth International) 2002-2004, Steering Committee Member of Oilwatch, Coordinator of the FOEI (Friends Of the Earth International) Working Group on Water, Coordinator of the FOEI ADB Task Group. He is a member of the ELAW (Environmental Law Alliance- Worldwide) since 1991. |
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Kamini Meedeniya Vitarana- Director |
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Suranjan Kodithuwakku - Director |
Kamini is a prominent environmental activist in the country. |
Suranjan is the Convenor of Green Movement of Sri Lanka which |
She has more than 25 years experience in the environmental field. She was the President of “Ruk Rakaganno” (Tree Society) for number of years. She was the Chairperson of the Environmental council of the Sri Lanka Association of Advancement of Science (SLAAS) for 1987-1989 period. She is an environmental scientist and she holds a degree on Zoology and M Phil on Microbiology. Kamini is the first Senior Environmental Scientist of the Environmental Foundation in 1989. She has been actively engage in the various committees on environment. She is a member of the Women and Environment and has participated in a number of national and international environmental events. She has authored a number of environmental articles and publications. Kamini is a leading environmental advocate in the Country. |
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is a network of over sixty environmental groups. He is a leading environmental activist in the Country. He has over 15 years experience in the environment filed. He has authored a number of environmental articles. He was a coordinator of several national and regional environmental networks such as ANAC and SUNPEC. |
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Chandana S. Jayakody- Director |
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Dilena Pathragoda - Director |
Chandana is a computer technologist. He has a vision to |
Dilena is a Management graduate and a Diploma holder in Human rights. |
promote environmental information sharing through IT. He is a founding member of the organization. He conducts research on the electronic waste and possible solutions. |
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He has knowledge on environmental mediation, collaborative management of natural resources. He was working at EFL as the Assistant coordinator of the Environmental Mediation Centre and Coordinator of the Environmentally Sustainable Industrial Development Project until 2003. He also has knowledge on monitoring the implementation of IFI projects and policies. |
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Dr. E.A.S. Edirisinghe |
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Dr. Edirisighe was awarded her M.B.B.S. from University of Colombo, and subsequently awarded post graduate Diploma in Child Health by Post Graduate Institute of Medicine. She conducts number of researches on Health and environmental related issues. |
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Mission |
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Protecting the equal environmental rights of the people & environment and
Promotes ecological sustainability by supporting ecologically sound
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Environmental Justice for all |
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Sharpen the public debate on environmental good governance, 
