Training for Trusteeship (September 23 - 29th, 2010)

Training for Trusteeship Workshops are organized annually by WICPER. The aim of these workshops is to train future leaders in the concept that they have duties and responsibilities toward their communities, to the environment and to future generations. The concept of trusteeship is emphasized to bring home to them the notion of responsible management of our inherited cultural resources and heritage for the benefit of current and future generations.

United Nations Association of Sri Lanka 63rd Annual Public Lecture

Judge Weeramantry was the guest speaker of the 63rd Annual Public Lecture by the United Nations Associations of Sri Lanka on his latest book Tread Lightly on the Earth: Religion, the Environment and the Human Future. This event was held in Colombo 3rd of May 2010 and hosted an audience of over 100 esteemed guests. Also the booklet “Why Nuclear Dangers Grow from Day to Day” by Judge Weeramantry was handed out in an attempt to create an awareness of the nuclear dangers that is prevalent and also in the wake of the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) will be held in May 2010 at UN Headquarters in New York.