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  Whither Sri Lanka’s Trade Union movement? | Editorial, Daily Mirror (Oct 26, 2020)

  26 October

  In October this year, the country’s total workforce, stood at approximately 8,971,000 persons. The minimum wage rate of workers has remained static - at Rs.10,000/- a month, through 2019 and 2020. The cost of living on the other hand has increased many times over.

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  India: Suspicious move to shift base year for calculating DA | Press release by AITUC - Oct 24, 2020

  24 October

  The Labour Bureau of the Ministry of Labour, GOI sent out emails announcing revision of base year for calculating CPI-IW (Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers) from 2001 to 2016, on October 22, 2020.

• Joint Letter to India’s Prime Minister Over Increasing Use of Sedition charges Against Journalists | International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the International Press Institute (IPI) - Oct 20, 2020

  23 October

  In a joint letter the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the International Press Institute (IPI), urged Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi “to take immediate steps to ensure that journalists can work without harassment and fear of reprisal..and to direct the state governments to drop all charges against journalists, including those under the draconian sedition laws, that have been imposed on them for their work”.

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  Dear Trolls, I Have an Interfaith Home And You Have No Say in It | Samina Dalwai

  19 October

• Sri Lanka: Survivor Narratives in National Restoration -The Case of Vanni | Vihanga Perera

  16 October

  The story is titled “Vanni: A Family’s Struggle through the Sri Lankan Conflict”, and is set between 2004 and 2009, from the Asian Tsunami to the war’s end when the state troops defeated the Liberation Tigers. Dix had been in Sri Lanka as an attaché of the United Nations before the UN was evacuated from Kilinochchi in 2008.

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