{"id":7840,"date":"2019-12-27T17:03:27","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T17:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=7840"},"modified":"2019-12-27T17:03:27","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T17:03:27","slug":"uk-and-sri-lanka-discuss-human-rights-and-accountability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/uk-and-sri-lanka-discuss-human-rights-and-accountability\/","title":{"rendered":"UK and Sri Lanka discuss human rights and accountability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The United Kingdom and Sri Lanka have had talks related to human rights and accountability.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The discussion took place between Justice and Human Rights Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva and the British High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Sarah Hulton today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Justice Ministry said that the Minister had briefed the High Commissioner on efforts being taken by the new Government on prison reforms and legal reforms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The British High Commissioner had offered UK assistance to take forward prison reforms and legal reforms, the Justice Ministry said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Minister had told the British High Commissioner that the policy of the new Government is to ensure equal justice for all communities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He also said that the Government will serve all communities no matter who voted for them or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Kingdom and Sri Lanka have had talks related to human rights and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}