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Item Sri Lankan Women and Sexual Harassments at Workplaces: In Search of Law Reforms(19th Conference on Postgraduate Research, International Postgraduate Research Conference 2018, Faculty of Graduate Studies,University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Pathiraja, P.M.A.S.Greater participation of women in employment is a common practice in 21st century and it is important for their economic maintenance and sustainability. In the era of rights based approach, the right to work is an essential right of every person and it was noticed that the women are the most vulnerable group of victims under sexual harassment at workplaces. Sexual Harassment generally refers to any act (physical, verbal, gestural, visual, tacit or written) that inflicts physical, mental or other harm or annoyance based on another person’s gender and/or sexuality and it can be recognized as a violation of human rights and human dignity, which undermines the equal opportunities and treatment between men and women. In the domestic scenario, workplace sexual Harassment often goes unreported and women employees who experience the sexual harassment has failed to report the harassing behavior or to file a complaint because of the social or professional retaliation. According to the reported statistics, throughout the last two decades Sri Lanka has been experiencing high rate of increasing incidents regarding the sexual harassments towards the women at workplaces regardless of their social, economic or educational position. The problems at workplace, discourage women to continue working and it has become a significant threat to the working women in Sri Lanka. Accordingly, this paper aims to discuss the problem of protecting women from sexual harassments at workplaces by exploring the inadequacy of laws available in Sri Lanka in terms of both domestic and international obligations and set a policy framework for establishing a legal, institutional and social infrastructure by analyzing the effectiveness of existing laws and regulations. This research will mainly follow a qualitative research method based on a literature review and carried out by the reference of primary and secondary sources. Furthermore, the research was enhanced with the data collected through the interviews with State Department and relevant stakeholders in relation to protect women from sexual harassment at workplace. Amending the provisions of some existing legislations, making the employer vicariously liable for sexual harassment occur in workplaces, adopting relevant International Labour Organization (ILO) standards to domestic laws and public awareness are some recommendations on this matter. Moreover, this research examines successful lessons from India for the purpose of analysing the inadequacy of existing laws in Sri Lanka and offers suggestions to enhance prevailing legal framework to protect women from sexual harassments at workplaces in Sri LankaItem A Study of South Indian Influences on the Politics in Sri Lanka During the Post Conflict Period (2009-2015)(Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Priyadarshani, H.E.N.; Samarawickrama, R.While an important place belongs to the relationships of Indo-Lanka since the past, the tendency, which can be seen currently, is the interference of South India alias Tamilnadu to the Sri Lanka politics after the war. The activities of several political parties especially in Tamilnadu, have made an influence for this situation. According to that making influences by South India to the decision of the central government in the Human Right Session of the United Nations, poser of fishermen of Lanka, attacks to the Sri Lankan pilgrims in India are some of the incidents, which take prominent place and because of these situations, brain-teasers have risen in the Sri Lankan politics. Therefore, this research is worthy and timely important in subjective wise. This study aimed to answer why the south Indian factor affects strongly towards the politics in Sri Lanka during the post conflict Period. This study study the south Indian interference results towards the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka and study the Indo-Lanka relationship in association with the foreign policies. As the methodology of this survey, the secondary data were utilized and the limitations of the survey had to study since 2009 to 2014. Results and conclusions of this study, Indo-Lanka relationship takes a strong place and situated location of Sri Lanka in South Asia is also considered as a significant matter. Since the origin of the Tamils, who live in Sri Lanka occurred inside India, especially South India acts by introducing a part of the Tamil, who lives in North as a component of their own. And the politics in Tamilnadu stands as the representatives of the Sri Lankan Tamil based on the doubt of occurring unjust from the Sinhalese Nationals in Sri Lanka for the Tamils in the North and the incidents, which happened in the past. Under these circumstances, it can be indicated that Indian interference to the Sri Lankan politics is becoming strongly.Item Cyber-crime and Law (Special Reference to Sri Lanka and India)(Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Jayasekara, A.H.D.New media is a catch-all term for all forms of electronic communication that have appeared or will appear since the original mainly text-and-static picture forms of online communication. The Internet is based on single technical standards that allow global communication. With the emerging use of computer technology, computer-related crime and cyber-crime have become a significant global challenge. The computer is rapidly increasing society‘s dependence upon it, with the result that society becomes progressively more vulnerable to computer malfunction, whether accidental or deliberately induced, and to computer manipulation and white-collar law breaking. (Weeramantry,1998). Cyber-crime encompasses any criminal act dealing with computers and networks. Although businesses in developed countries are often most affected by the abuse of Internet services to facilitate cyber-crime, the topic is equally relevant for Asian countries. This research is qualitative research. In this research need to get a picture about cyber-crime in India and Sri Lanka. And need to study Internet related laws in selected country. In this research studied International laws about cyber space and cyber-crime and also study Sri Lankan laws and Sri Lankan cybercrime cases. And found out new suggestions to minimize cyber-crime in Sri Lanka.Item Competitive Emergence of China and India and Autonomous Existence of Sri Lanka(Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) de Silva, P.P.N.Paper will discuss the Competitive Emergence of China and India and Autonomous Existence of Sri Lanka. China and India are arising of politics, economics and military sections. It is influencing to autonomous of Sri Lanka who is small country in region of South Asia. All of these countries are in Asiatic state. While china and India most power full arising state in this region. Both countries of the world, which china and India have self-built economy and military power. From recent period, global economic capability is being transferred to Asia china and India. Also china and India have built military power to protect more than other countries all capability for their motherlands. There is challenge for Sri Lanka autonomous among such China became closer friend of Sri Lanka last ruling period. India was suffering from ideological conflict about that. The present government is improving aliment between India and Sri Lanka. China became a main development partner of Sri Lanka. It was a main reason to intolerance of India. This reason Sri Lanka had to give large number of profit margin to China. Actually speaking it is that one way pump system.in this context Indian ideology is main both power full countries. Factor to determine international affairs. If Sri Lanka deal with only China Sri Lanka able to isolate.in international society. In this context Sri Lanka implement non-alignment foreign policy will be able to conduct successful foreign affairs between India and china.