Photo courtesy of Twitter Malathi de Alwis, friend, mentor, teacher, feminist, anthropologist, birder, foodie and the most amazing cook, passed away on January 21. As…
Photo courtesy of Independent Diplomat The Sri Lankan government is likely to face an uncomfortable time at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) session…
Photo courtesy of This Week in Worcester In his presidential election manifesto, Gotabaya Rajapaksa noted that “Sexual and Gender Based violence has increased in our…
Photo courtesy of InfoLanka Kanagasabai Thevathasan is a 64-year-old prisoner I met while I was at the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka. Twelve years…
Photo courtesy of Ada Derana For nine months Muslims in Sri Lanka have been begging the government to allow them to bury relatives who have…
Photo courtesy of Indian Express “If only they would respect Tamils as humans.” An alleged former combatant who was “rehabilitated”. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam…
Photo courtesy of Twitter We will not forget Mullivaikkal, the shot, the strafed, the scissored, and the cluster-bombed. We will not forget holes in…
Photo courtesy of Asia News Twelve years ago today The Sunday Leader Editor, Lasantha Wickrematunge, was brutally murdered in broad daylight within a high security…
Photo courtesy of Newsfirst This submission is made on the assumption that the attempt to make a new constitution is an act done in good…
Photo courtesy of Newsfirst Sri Lanka hit the lowest point in their COVID-19 response when a 20-day-old Muslim infant was cremated on December 9, 2020 against the…
Photo courtesy of Daily Sabah As he watched his son’s body being placed in the crematorium, Mohammed Fahim stood outside the cemetery, weeping. “How could…
Photo courtesy of Dawn Words can, and often do, harm others. A society is usually justified in restricting speech that causes harm. The nature and…
On February 26, the Sri Lankan government withdrew from the United Nations Human Rights Council Resolution 30/1, which Sri Lanka endorsed in 2015. The resolution commits Sri…
Photo courtesy of WSWS Eleven prisoners were killed and more than 100 injured in unrest at the Mahara prison that started on November 29. The…
Photo courtesy of Times of India This year’s Human Rights Day theme is “Recover Better – Stand up for Human Rights”. The theme directly addresses…
Photo courtesy of Sri Lanka Guardian The tragic final months of Sri Lanka’s civil war in 2009 have received renewed attention lately, with a mention…
Photo courtesy of Head Topics Inadequate access to menstrual hygiene tools and education, or otherwise known as period poverty, is not a phenomenon that only…
Photo courtesy of The Hindu The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka conducted the first national study on the treatment and conditions of prisoners from…
Photo courtesy of New York Post “Where is my son, where is my brother?” was the constant refrain of about 50 people gathered outside 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 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 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 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 Associated Press Just before the Presidential election of November 16, 2019, the UK’s Guardian newspaper began its editorial on Sri Lanka with…
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…