Hemantha Withanage, Executive Director of Centre for Environmental Justice (CEJ) - FoE Sri Lanka was part of a session panel titled Voices of the Victims at the UN Treaty on Transnational Corporations Session in Geneva, Switzerland. Hemantha highlighted 2 main cases...
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

International Day of the World’s Indigenous People
Today on International Day of the World’s Indigenous People, Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific (FoE APAC) groups from 13 countries are celebrating the stories of the indigenous communities. Globally, there are an estimated 370 million indigenous peoples, the majority...


