Photo courtesy of Tharmapalan Tilaxan Today is World Wildlife Day “Ecocide is the destruction of the natural environment by deliberate or negligent human action.” Oxford Languages…
Last Sunday, February 28, during the holy mass our parish priest at St. Joseph’s Church, Ratmalana announced that all Catholics in Colombo Archdiocese are requested…
Photo courtesy of the world news platform On February 24, after the interactive dialogue on Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) when…
Three years ago, the villagers of Mullikulam in the Mannar district left behind their brick homes with water, toilets and beds to camp out in…
Photo courtesy of ABC News Sri Lanka, although facing challenges related to vaccination coordination, has started vaccinating the public. As misinformation can be a serious…
It is a small shed with cement brick walls and an asbestos roof facing a dusty street. Car horns blare and trucks rattle past. Outside…
The sentiments are unanimous. Under President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s presidency and government, Sri Lanka’s human rights defenders in the north are being threatened, harassed and intimidated…
Image courtesy Thuppahi’s Blog The Sri Lankan government’s Disarmament, Demobilisation, and Reintegration (DDR) program has invested in bridging former fighters’ transition from wartime to peacetime,…
Image courtesy of Films for Action “There will be no investigation in the country…because I will oppose it…. Whether it is United Nations or any…
Photo courtesy of Forbes The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) recent statement that they wish to form a BJP in Sri Lanka and Nepal has infuriated…
Photo courtesy of UNOPS Pressure on the government is growing in the run-up to a United Nations Human Rights Council session in February-March 2021. People…
Image Courtesy of News First Today, I am going to explain about the Commission on Political Victimisation established by President Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The Commission…
Image courtesy of United Nations Former UN officials and independent experts call on the international community to take immediate steps towards justice and accountability to…
Image courtesy of Daily News Remembering Richard De Zoysa (03/18/1958 – 02/18/1990) Animals continue to crack in Sri Lanka, Richard. Lions don’t exist in the…
Image courtesy of Amnesty International Amnesty International Press Release: The Sri Lankan Government has launched a renewed crackdown on dissent that is severely curtailing civil…
Image Courtesy of Sri Lanka Brief On 11 February 2010, Pattani Razeek, a former Grama Niladhari (Village Official), a former Managing Trustee of the Community…
Photo courtesy of PressboltNews The recent coup in Myanmar has created an interest in looking into the impact of military rule that began with the…
Photo courtesy of Mongabay Whenever President Gotabaya Rajapaksa embarks on a “discussion with the villagers” visit, Sri Lanka’s environmental defenders shudder in anticipation of yet…
Photo courtesy of Saskia Fernando Gallery Artist Gayan Prageeth is exhibiting his latest collection, Eyes Only, at the Saskia Fernando Gallery. His work reflects a…
Image Courtesy of AP News Why do Sri Lankan human rights advocates repeatedly place their trust in an imperfect and highly politicised inter-state human rights…
Photo courtesy of We Effect The transitional justice process in Sri Lanka has come to a grinding halt. Reconciliation between the majority and minority communities…
Photo courtesy of NNN Today is the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation In a tribal region of Afghanistan, a sad 10…
Image Courtesy of Pinterest A poem reflecting on the meaning of independence day. This country isn’t yours to offer, Upon the conditions set by you. You…
Photo courtesy of Newsin.Asia If colonization is the exercise of hegemony, administrative control and the fundamental subjugation of one group of peoples to another, then…
Photo courtesy of The Jakarta Post Sri Lanka continues to maintain its policy of mandatory cremations for those who have died due to COVID-19, deeply…
Photo courtesy of Social News XYZ “I was fascinated with the theme that we must make it happen together, which was perhaps said a countless…
Photo courtesy of Artmajeur Sri Lanka will celebrate its 73rd independence anniversary on February 4 but for many years now, the day has become one…
Photo Courtesy of BBC News Sri Lanka is led by a man who has, by his admission, two faces. In a more democratic avatar is…
Photo courtesy of Global Centre for Responsibility to Protect International and local human rights advocates urged the UN Human Rights Council’s Core Group for Sri Lanka…
Photo courtesy of Progressive Women’s Collective From Lithuania, Italy, Korea, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other many countries the plea is the same: bring us home.…