EUOPCAT Programme Sri Lanka National Network Media resource

EU-OPCAT Programme Sri Lanka National Network • Media resource center – Kandy • SETIK – Kandy • Right to Life – Katunayake • Families of the Disappeared • Gampaha Human Rights Citizens Committee • Rule of Law Center • Janasansadaya • Kamkaru Piyasa • Institute for HR • Samasewaya • Sinhala-Demala Gemi Kantha Sammelanaya • Galle Citizens Committee • Ratnapura Citizens Committee • Kurunegalle Citizens Committee 1

• Also: • Bikshu Forum; • Lawyers, Sharmaine, Janaka and Suresh; • Commissioner of Prisons (rtd. ), W. L. Weerasinghe; • Assistant Commissioner, Probation & Childcare, E. K. Ariyadasa; • U. A. L. C. Perera, Consultant JMO; 2

Political Mapping Workshop 25. 02. 2008 3

Political Mapping Workshop 25. 02. 2008 4

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Participants --32 campaign activists 8

Identified main stakeholders as • • • Department of Prisons under Central Government Prison Welfare Societies under Prisons Prisoners, detainees and their family members Ex prisoners and detainees Probation and Childcare under Provincial Government Social Services Department under Provincial Government Ministry of Justice under Central Government Social Service Ministry under Provincial Government Members of Parliament Cabinet Ministers 9

• Members and ministers of the Provincial Government • Civil society and general public • Professionals e. g. lawyers, doctors, JMOs, • Media Recognized 3 sectors • Those pro-OPCAT • Those against • Those neutral 10

Work towards • Further strengthening those who are pro • Work towards winning over or neutralizing those against • To work towards winning over those who are neutral 11

• SMJR, • View exchange meetings, • Seminars with all stakeholders (Initially to take stakeholders separately ) • Publications • Campaigns • Lobbying • Survey on detention centers 12