Photo courtesy of The Toronto Star For forty years, human rights activists have demanded repeal of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) of 1979, which…
Photo courtesy of The World Bank The impact of the economic crisis on the working class poor of Colombo over the past year cannot be overstated. Many…
Photo courtesy of Amnesty International A cascade of reports from human rights organisations including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have drawn attention to rise…
Photo courtesy of NPR The proposed Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA), as many legal experts have already argued, can be more dangerous than the draconian Prevention of…
Photo courtesy of Xinhua Today is World Health Day This year World Health Day focuses on the theme of “Health for All” – a theme…
Photo courtesy of News 1st The crisis facing Sri Lankan society today is the result of contradictions arising from two processes in the specific Sri Lankan…
Photo courtesy of The Guardian The recent war was officially over by the time I came to Sri Lanka a few years ago but it…
Photo courtesy of Deccan Herald The Anti-Terrorism Bill gazetted by the government in March highlights a critical issue: the interconnectedness of oppressive laws. As the…
Photo courtesy of CNBC How to select keys for the door when you know the gatekeeper all too well, when chance and destiny carry…
Photo courtesy of India Today Child sexual abuse and exploitation have been ongoing issues in Sri Lanka for many years and the numbers continue to…
Photo courtesy of FT Sri Lanka awaited the IMF bailout package to find some breathing space so that it can provide basic needs of energy,…
Photo courtesy of Adaderana As of now, Ranil Wickremesinghe has three points in his favour. First, there is the IMF deal, which his government is…
Photo courtesy of Amnesty International The ruthless repression of dissent, the growing crisis of refugees, an unchecked climate crisis and double standards of the West…
Photo courtesy of Atalayar On March 17, the government published its proposed 97 page Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA). The ATA is the latest attempt by governments…
Photo courtesy of AFP In Sri Lanka, for decades, the state has been abusing power and violating the rights of its citizens with impunity, often…
Photo courtesy of Deccan Herald “Homo Sapiens is prone to orgies of stupidity, brutality, and destruction.” Martin Wolf (The crisis of democratic capitalism) So back…
Photo courtesy of La Prensa Latina “Sir Humphrey Appleby: There is no reason to change a system that has worked so well in the past! Jim Hacker:…
Photo courtesy of WSWS Between 1965 and 2019 Sri Lanka has signed 16 agreements with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), out of which seven were…
“Ten years later, I still get called a ‘kotiya’,” T. Rameshkumar, 43, victim of a false charge under the Prevention of Terrorism Act. One morning…
Photo courtesy of WNPS Today is International Day of Forests “According to Global Forest Watch, in 2021 Sri Lanka lost 13.3kha of natural forest. The…
Daniel Alphonsus Photo courtesy of Human Rights Watch Countries never learn from others’ mistakes, they only learn from their own. Sri Lanka is an exception:…
Photo courtesy of Kisho Kumar For over a decade, social activist, photographer and researcher Kisho Kumar has been working to uplift and assist the forgotten plantation…
Photo courtesy of Kumanan In a landmark case last month, the Vavuniya High Court ordered the army to produce three LTTE members who had surrendered…
Photo courtesy of Nikkei Asia China has backed Sri Lanka’s debt plan. To be more specific, as Bloomberg reported, it has “given assurances that it…
Photo courtesy of Educaloi Today is International Women’s Day For her documentary film Teardrop On Fire, Jessica Palden interviewed many people who have directly experienced…
Image courtesy AlJazeera The petition from 182 economists and development experts calling for the cancellation of Sri Lanka’s sovereign debt has provoked rather interesting discussions…
Photograph Courtesy Parliment.lk Despite the unprecedented socio-economic and political setbacks Sri Lanka is currently facing, the Government is making preparations to celebrate the country’s 75th…
Photo courtesy of WNPS Last year, Covid dominated all conversations and contributed to the further exacerbation of a multitude of existing man-made environmental and conservation…
Photo courtesy of Foreign Policy This article explains a framework for analysing Sri Lankan state formation and understanding the current challenges that the country is…
Photo courtesy of Counterpoint We cared for Indira Gandhi. She understood Lankan Tamil plight and the need for redress, return of lands, control over…