Global Education and Training Centre - Sri Lanka

Wishing you a Merry Christmas that is full of love, joy, and happiness and blessings. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas in advance!

ඔබ සැමට සුබ අලුත් අවුරුද්දක් වේවා!
இனிய தமிழ், சிங்கள புத்தாண்டு வாழ்த்துகள்!
Wish You a Happy Sinhala & Tamil New Year!

The Global Education and Training Centre (GETC) recently celebrated another milestone with its 19th Year Successful Anniversary on Saturday the 30th of January 2021 at our new and larger premises located at No. 43A-1/1 Haig Road,Colombo-04. The GETC was the brainchild of Dr. Romesh Jayasinghe and was founded and launched on the 30th of January 2002 in Colombo-03.

Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December — the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The UDHR is a milestone document that proclaims the inalienable rights which everyone is entitled to as a human being - regardless of race, colour, religion, s*x, language, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Available in more than 500 languages, it is the most translated document in the world.

2020 Theme: Recover Better - Stand Up for Human Rights
This year’s Human Rights Day theme relates to the COVID-19 pandemic and focuses on the need to build back better by ensuring Human Rights are central to recovery efforts. We will reach our common global goals only if we are able to create equal opportunities for all, address the failures exposed and exploited by COVID-19, and apply human rights standards to tackle entrenched, systematic, and intergenerational inequalities, exclusion and discrimination.

10 December is an opportunity to reaffirm the importance of human rights in re-building the world we want, the need for global solidarity as well as our interconnectedness and shared humanity.

Under UN Human Rights’ generic call to action “Stand Up for Human rights”, we aim to engage the general public, our partners and the UN family to bolster transformative action and showcase practical and inspirational examples that can contribute to recovering better and fostering more resilient and just societies.