Turtles breathe new life
There are over 20 turtle conservation centres in
Sri Lanka at present. The majority of these “ex-situ” conservation
centres are along the coastal stretch of Kosgoda, Induruwa,
Seenigama and Habaraduwa on the Southern Coast.
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The Dhammapada, the beacon of light
The Dhammapada is a unique religious text which
sums up the essence of “Tripitaka” literally ‘Three Baskets'. It is
sacred to Buddhists as the Bhagavad Gita, Hindi song of the Lord,
forming part of the sixth book of the Hindu epic – the Mahabharata
to the Hindus the Holy Bible to Christians and the Quran to Muslims.
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Quality, not size matters
When it
comes to development, it is not the scale of economic growth but its
nature that is important.
The Philippines needs a post-2015 development
agenda that reclaims human rights as the normative framework,
especially ensuring the right to education, health and decent work,
and addressing the long-standing inequalities, concludes the report
2013 of Social Watch-Philippines.
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