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GEWG Appeals to Political Parties to Nominate Women to Contest Local Council Elections

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CMEV together with the Gender and Election Working Group(GEWG) conducted a press conference on 09 January 2023 to request all political parties to ensure better representation and safer participation for women in Local Government Elections. D.M. Dissanayake, Chief of Operation, CMEV stated that Sri Lanka is still considered a country with a lower women’s representation …

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COVID-19 and Elections: ANFREL and Sri Lankan election organisations release a Code of Conduct for election observers

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ANFREL and six domestic election observation groups, including ANFREL members PAFFREL and CMEV, release today the “COVID-19 Code of Conduct for Election Observers” ahead of the 2020 Sri Lankan parliamentary elections. This document is a joint initiative from organizations both domestic and international intending to observe the parliamentary elections of Sri Lanka. The polls were …

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Disclosure of Campaign Costs of Candidates Contesting Presidential Election 2019

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A special unit established at CMEV to track election campaign cost of the presidential election 2019 launched its first interim report at HARTI Centre Colombo 07 today morning. This is the first time in election history to disclose election campaign costs and Dr. Psaravanamuttu, Co-convener of CMEV, Manjula Gajanayake of CMEV and Ransi Karunarathne , …

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Report of the Civil Society Committee to Review the Provincial Council Election System & the Provincial Council (Amendment) Election Act

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A Civil Society Committee was brought together by the Centre for Motioning Election Violence (CMEV) and the People’s Action for Free and Fair Elections (PAFFREL) to review the Provincial Council Election System and to make appropriate recommendations. The committee commenced reviewing the Provincial Council (Amendment) Election Act on the 1st of June 2018 and the released their report with recommendations within 2 months of …

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Press Conference – March 12 Movement

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The March 12 Movement convened a press conference to address numerous post-election issues yesterday in Colombo. The main objectives of the press conference were; To request the political parties to refrain from appointing any members with track records on corruption and other kinds of misconduct, regardless of them winning seats, in new councils as Chairman or …

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Press Conference – January 28th 2018

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CMEV conducted the first media conference for 2018, in line with the upcoming Local Authorities Elections. In this conference CMEV revealed their election observation mechanism as well as findings by CMEV during the pre-election campaign to date. The other main focus of the conference was a discussion on incidents of violence against women in elections …

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A discussion on the need to systematically observe and report the political activism of women during the period of elections

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Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV) in partnership with International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) organised a workshop on violence against women in elections (VAWIE) for election observer groups and women’s rights advocates on 27th of July at Global Towers Hotel, Colombo. This discussion which was held based on the common issues arising  in relation to VAWIE …

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Press conference to ensure that local government elections are conducted urgently

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The official term of most of the local government authorities have ended at this time. Thus, it is undoubtedly the need of the hour to ensure that local government elections are held without any further delay. However, no precise statement has so far been issued with regard to the time frame for holding elections. CMEV …

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Press Conference: Condemning the appointment of Anusha Palpita

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A joint media conference of main Election observation groups in Sri Lanka was held yesterday at CSR Maradana, to condemn the appointment of Anusha Palpita as the Additional Secretary of Ministry of Home Affairs.  As widely reported, Mr. Palpita is indicted before the High Court of Colombo in terms of offences against the Public Property act and the …

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Parliamentary General Election 2015: Media Communiqué 05

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Download as a PDF from here. ### 8th August 2015 Colombo, Sri Lanka 05th August, 2015 Assault by UPFA in Ratnapura Supporters of candidate Ms. Thalatha Athukorala of UNF were allegedly assaulted by supporters of the UPFA in Nivithigala. The incident occurred at around 11.30 P.M, at a brief meeting held with the participation of …

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Election day monitoring updates

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On 26 January, CMEV will disseminate monitoring reports via, Live hourly audio updates / podcasts in English, Sinhala and Tamil uploaded to http://drop.io/cmevelections These updates can be downloaded as MP3s for broadcast, listened to online, embedded on any website and social networking platform, emailed or easily linked to. Special incidents will also be covered in …

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Press conference on election monitoring of Presidential Election 2010

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The Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV) cordially invites you to attend a press conference on election related violence and pertinent issues related to the Presidential Election 2010. The press conference will be held on Monday 25th January 2010 at 10.30am in the Mahaweli Centre, 96, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 7. The first interim report …

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Presidential Election 2010: Media Communiqué No. 6

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CMEV has recorded a cumulative total of 316 Incidents of election related violence since the issue of the Gazette Notification on 23rd November 2009 announcing the Presidential Election.  Of these, 133 are classified as Major and 183 as Minor incidents. The highest number of Major incidents have been reported from the Hambantota(17) and Galle(11) Districts. …

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Video of press conference on Southern Provincial Council Election (Sinhala)

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Video of press conference held on 13 October 2009 on Southern Provincial Council Election. Sinhala version. The video covers the context within which the election was held, key characteristics of election violence in the run up to and on the day of the elections, and key concerns over the conduct of free and fair elections …

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Video of press conference on Southern Provincial Council Election (English)

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Video of press conference held on 13 October 2009 on Southern Provincial Council Election. English version. The video covers the context within which the election was held, key characteristics of election violence in the run up to and on the day of the elections, and key concerns over the conduct of free and fair elections …

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