{"id":44416,"date":"2018-01-15T13:37:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T08:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=44416"},"modified":"2018-01-15T13:37:21","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T08:37:21","slug":"sri-lanka-president-rejects-move-to-allow-women-to-buy-alcohol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=44416","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka President rejects move to allow women to buy alcohol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>COLOMBO Jan 15 (TNS):<\/strong> A move to grant women in Sri Lanka the same rights as men to buy alcohol legally has been overruled by President Maithripala Sirisena.<\/p>\n<p>He told a rally he had ordered the government to withdraw the reform, which would also have allowed women to work in bars without a permit.<\/p>\n<p>He said he had only found out about the move from the newspapers.<\/p>\n<p>The government announced on Wednesday it was amending a 1955 law, agreeing that it discriminated against women.<\/p>\n<p>Critics have accused the president of not taking gender equality seriously.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO Jan 15 (TNS): A move to grant women in Sri Lanka the same rights as men to buy alcohol legally has been overruled by President Maithripala Sirisena. He told a rally he had ordered the government to withdraw the reform, which would also have allowed women to work in bars without a permit. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[509,19],"tags":[779,932,2189,2188],"class_list":["post-44416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombo","category-world","tag-colombo","tag-international","tag-maithripala-sirisena","tag-sri-lanka-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44418,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44416\/revisions\/44418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}