{"id":122052,"date":"2022-01-11T17:21:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T00:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=122052"},"modified":"2022-01-11T17:21:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T00:21:17","slug":"animal-welfare-bill-granted-cabinet-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/01\/11\/animal-welfare-bill-granted-cabinet-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Welfare Bill granted Cabinet Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Senaka Weeraratna<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Justice for Animals and\nNature welcomes the grant of Cabinet Approval for the long-awaited Animal\nWelfare Bill initially drafted by the Law Commission of Sri Lanka and handed\nover to the then President Mahinda Rajapakse for enactment in May 2006. It has taken\nmore than 15 years for the Govt. to<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>reach the stage of giving\nCabinet approval for this Bill that will enhance the protection given to\nAnimals at a level comparable with modern standards of care. Its enactment will\nraise the moral stature of Sri Lanka in the civilized world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/149040167376864\/posts\/239561814991365\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/149040167376864\/posts\/239561814991365\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senaka Weeraratna Justice for Animals and Nature welcomes the grant of Cabinet Approval for the long-awaited Animal Welfare Bill initially drafted by the Law Commission of Sri Lanka and handed over to the then President Mahinda Rajapakse for enactment in May 2006. It has taken more than 15 years for the Govt. to reach the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-senaka-weeraratna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}