Sri Lanka: WHRDs threatened by the police with arrest to stop their peaceful protest
Event- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Initial Date
- Feb 27, 2020
- Event Description
Police have allegedly threatened peaceful protestors that they will be arrested unless they move into the designated agitation site. The protestors were mainly women who have taken microfinance loans and caught in a debt trap and human rights activists. Microfinance loans have pushed rural women into debt traps, with high interest rates charged. The protestors marched from Pettah railway station towards the Presidential Secretariat.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Other (e.g. undefined, organisation, community)
- Woman
- Violation
- Intimidation and Threats
- Rights Concerned
- Freedom of assembly
- Offline
- Right to Protest
- HRD
- Community-based HRD
- WHRD
- Perpetrator-State
- Police
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 6.8535692235126495
Longitude: 80.06034040219974
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 27 February 2020, an unidentified number of individuals were threatened by the police for staging a protest against microfinance loans leading women to debt trap in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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