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Rally for Unity: Standing up for an inclusive Sri Lanka
Groundviews strongly endorsed a rally held in Colombo on Sunday to reaffirm the fact that Sri Lanka is not only...
Continue reading »Archiving ‘Her Stories’: In conversation with Radhika Hettiarachchi
Her Stories, a unique archive of oral history, was conceived of and curated by Radhika Hettiarachchi. We begin by Radhika...
Continue reading »A Tolerant Sri Lanka: Report on online poll
The past few weeks have seen a rise in incidents and publicly expressed sentiments against the Muslim community by groups...
Continue reading »Police in Sri Lanka show their true saffron colours
Lest we forget, the Sri Lankan police, who act under the orders and protection of the Ministry of Defence, are...
Continue reading »Strengthening innovation in Sri Lanka: In conversation with Anushka Wijesinha
Anushka Wijesinha is a Research Economist at the Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka and is one of the...
Continue reading »A Tolerant Sri Lanka: How far will we go?
The past few weeks have seen a rise in incidents and publicly expressed sentiments against the Muslim community by groups...
Continue reading »Impeachment of Sri Lanka’s Chief Justice and its impact: Poll results
Photo courtesy Euronews From 6 – 21 March 2013, Groundviews ran an online poll to ascertain opinions on the lasting...
Continue reading »Helping the Police arrest brutish “monks” in Sri Lanka
Apparently the infamous Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) has condemned the attack on Fashion Bug warehouse a few days ago and...
Continue reading »#unlk: Archive and visualisation of tweets on Sri Lanka at HRC’s 22nd Session
The 22nd regular session of the Human Rights Council was held from 25 February to 22 March 2013 at the...
Continue reading »UN HRC 22nd Session | Resolution ‘Promoting reconciliation and accountability in Sri Lanka’
An archive of material around the Resolution titled ‘Promoting reconciliation and accountability in Sri Lanka’ passed at the UN Human...
Continue reading »Nepotism visualised: The Rajapaksa tentacles in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Campaign came out today with this extremely revealing and useful infographic about the Rajapaksa regime’s nepotism in Sri...
Continue reading »Appeal from the Tamil Civil Society to the International Community regarding the upcoming resolution in the UNHRC on Sri Lanka
This appeal, signed by civil society activists who live and work in the North and East of Sri Lanka, seeks...
Continue reading »‘Kerosene’ by Kannan Arunasalam wins international documentary award
Groundviews is extremely pleased to recognise that Kannan Arunasalam has won the 2013 South Asian International Documentary Festival’s Prism Short...
Continue reading »Impeachment of Sri Lanka’s Chief Justice and its impact: What do you think?
Photo courtesy Euronews Just a few weeks since the impeachment of Sri Lanka’s Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake, no one is...
Continue reading »Lies, Damn Lies and Mahinda Samarasinghe at the UN HRC
Image courtesy JDS Sri Lanka Campaign has just released a very good compilation of rebuttals to points made by Min...
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