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Centre for Environmental Justice

The Centre for Environmental Justice is a social service environmental organisation based in Sri Lanka. Its mission is to protect the equal environmental rights of the people and environment, and to promote ecological sustainability by supporting ecologically sound community activities. Our vision is”Environmental Justice for all”.

CEJ’s Goals and Objectives

  • To sharpen public debate on environmental good governance.
  • Promote ecologically sustainable development and environmentally responsible neighborhoods,
  • Safeguard nature and people from environmentally and socially irresponsible activities and human rights violations,
  • Promote community participation in decision making in natural resources and,
  • Promote environmental justice and equity through legal and other means.

Friends of the Earth Sri Lanka / Center for Environmental Justice
Address: 20A Kuruppu Road
08 Colombo, Sri Lanka
Phone: +94 11 268 3282
Web: www.ejustice.lk
Facebook: www.facebook.com/CEJSriLanka
Contact: Friends of the Earth Sri Lanka / Center for Environmental Justice

Latest Updates from Centre for Environmental Justice
The Law of Land Grabs and Forestry Governance in Sri Lanka

The Law of Land Grabs and Forestry Governance in Sri Lanka

Dec 19, 2019

The British colonisation of Sri Lanka, which ended in 1948, aggressively sought to develop a plantation based economy by legalising the land grabs of the largely rural peasantry. This colonial plantation legacy is inextricably linked to the landlessness currently...

Defending Territories, Defending Our Lives

Defending Territories, Defending Our Lives

Dec 9, 2019

Today, on International Human Rights Day, Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific (FoE Asia Pacific) launches its latest publication, Defending Territories, Defending Our Lives - a grim reminder that everyday, somewhere on this planet, environmental human rights defenders...