Photo Courtesy of Humanity & Inclusion To mark International Day for Persons with Disabilities, Groundviews interviewed Dharini de Mel, a friend and philanthropist for persons…
Photo courtesy of ConstitutionNet This proposal for a new Chapter on Fundamental Rights and Freedoms in a future constitution was prepared in response to the…
Photo courtesy of Twitter Today is World AIDS Day When Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was first discovered in the early 1980s, it was considered a…
Photo courtesy of The Statesman Maaveerar Naal, otherwise known as Heroes day, is celebrated on November 27 to remember those who lost their lives fighting…
Photo courtesy of MSF Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women A senior policeman’s daughter accidently drove into a car…
Photo courtesy of Daily Mirror On November 25, 1960 three sisters, Patria Mercedes Mirabal, María Argentina Minerva Mirabal and Antonia María Teresa Mirabal, were assassinated…
Photo courtesy of Daily Mirror The detection of a COVID-19 positive case from a garment manufacturing facility in Minuwangoda earlier last month sparked new fears…
Photo courtesy of Presidential Secretariat of Sri Lanka You take a step back as the ball bounces at breakneck speed and play defence. It is…
Photo courtesy of Verite Research Seven months have passed since the arrest and detention of human rights lawyer, Hejaaz Hizbullah. When he was taken into…
Photo Courtesy of Sri Lanka Army Many are familiar with drone technology as a highly advanced aerial technology. Drones have become increasingly useful for organizations…
Photo courtesy of Dinarzarde Raheem Circular MWFC/1/20201 issued on 4 November by the Ministry of Wildlife and Forest Conservation has caused widespread concern and consternation.…
Photo courtesy of Sri Lanka Foundation “Ever since we arrived on this planet as a species, we’ve cut them down, dug them up, burnt them…
Photo courtesy of Medium The heady days of victory and power are diminishing fast. Bankrupt for ideas and a plan for COVID-19 management, clinging to…
Photo courtesy of UNICEF World Children’s Day was first established in 1954 as Universal Children’s Day and is celebrated on November 20 each year to…
Photo Courtesy of Daily News With the enactment of the Twentieth Amendment, Sri Lanka embarks yet again down the fraught path of authoritarian presidentialism. Whether…
Photo courtesy of Varnam In our powerful yet fragile state, precarity defines our being. Precarious safety of dissenters and human rights defenders Precarious privacy invaded…
Photo courtesy of The News Minute It was 30 years ago that UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) came into force. Today…
Photo courtesy of Associated Press Just before the Presidential election of November 16, 2019, the UK’s Guardian newspaper began its editorial on Sri Lanka with…
Photo Courtesy of ABC News A deeply polarised nation, a capitalist theme park, an embedded infrastructure of racism and segregation, and one of the poorest…
Image Courtesy of The Week “Then take us for Gods, as is proper and fit…” Aristophanes (The Birds) A pandemic with no end in sight, an…
Photo courtesy of Live 24 The title for this article is taken from the motto above the doorway to the morgue. The Latin words translate…
Photo courtesy of Top News Philippines The question of the burial or cremation of COVID-19 victims took a bizarre turn to expose a government at…
Photo courtesy of Sri Lanka Guardian World Children’s Day falls on November 20. Sri Lanka commemorated Children’s Day on October 1 and September 2 marked…
Photo courtesy of NBC News The result of the US presidential election of 2020 has far reaching consequences not only for the United States but…
Photo courtesy of Rainforest Protectors Trust Environmentalists are up in arms once again as the government withdrew two circulars that protected 700,000 hectares of forests,…
Photo courtesy of Twitter In their recent parliamentary election, the people of New Zealand discarded the old white men who had been running the country…
Photo Courtesy of Twitter The democratic ideal sounds simple enough. All citizens have a say in their system of governance, typically through elected representatives. The…
Photo courtesy of ORF The primary objective of Secretary Pompeo’s visit to South and South East Asia (Sri Lanka, India, Maldives, Indonesia and Vietnam) was…
Photo courtesy of Business News Sri Lanka is presently in the midst of a surge in COVID-19 cases with a lockdown enforced in parts of…
Photo courtesy of Asia Times Over the course of October Sri Lanka welcomed two of the world’s prominent powers, China and the US, to the…