.: Port City: for What? Whose Benefit?

A dialogue among people, civil society and schollers were conducted on 27th January at Kardinal Coorey Center-Negombo. The program was organized by the movement against the port city.
Most viewed Port city project as a disaster to the not only to the environment but to the social correlations, health, fisheries hence food security and also geologically.

The project has broken the constitution itself such as a right to do a fair and legal occupation and right to free movement by preventing people to enter into the project area or surrounding sea said a prominent lawyer who is engaged in legal action against the project.

Around 250 Community members from Negombo, Puthlam, Kaluthara, Colombo and several other districts participated in the program and 10 experts in different fields were presented their speeches with some of the visual presentations.

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NAFSO (National Fisheries Solidarity Movement), organizes fishermen to lobby the government to defend their rights and to bring about good environmental practice in coastal areas. ...NAFSO has helped a fishing community to take legal action against a proposal to build a five-star hotel on a mangrove where fish spawn."We are not against hotels, because they bring tourism and income. But 3,000 families and 15,000 fishermen use this lagoon and all of them could be affected by the developments. Only 200 would be employed by the hotel. The lagoon is our mother, and we must protect her." Jude Preman Fernando, local fisherman. At the present situation we are continuing our campaign with small scale fishermen to urge the government to take legal action against Destructive Fishing Practices around the coastal areas of Sri Lanka. View my complete profile

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Port City: for What? Whose Benefit?