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Human Rights, Issues, Media and Communications, Photos, Post-War

#justaphotolka : Highlighting and Pushing Back Against Ongoing Surveillance in Vavuniya

Featured image courtesy NewsFirst On November 24, two youth were questioned in Vavuniya around posts they had made on Facebook. One of the photos was of the Divisional Secretariat of Vavuniya North,…

Groundviews Groundviews on 12/14/201712/14/2017
Development, Environment, Issues

The Human-Elephant Conflict: Moving Towards Solutions

Featured image courtesy Anton Croos Recently the famous tusker, “Dala Puttuwa” of Galgamuwa was killed by poachers, renewing the public discussion around the ongoing human -elephant conflict in Sri Lanka. Investigators found…

Kalana Krishantha Kalana Krishantha on 12/11/201712/11/2017
Human Rights, Issues, Photos, Post-War, Transitional Justice

In Their Absence: Families of the Disappeared Share Treasured Keepsakes

Featured image courtesy Selvaraja Rajasegar The following is the translation of a story by Selvaraja Rajasegar, editor of Maatram (click here and here to view the series in Tamil). As of today,…

Selvaraja Rajasegar Selvaraja Rajasegar on 12/10/201712/10/2017
Corruption, Issues, Politics and Governance

The Crackdown on Corruption

Featured image courtesy president.gov.lk On November 8 President Maithripala Sirisena called the irregularities around the Central Bank bond issue a “maha vinashaya” (a huge destruction) and said that those behind it must accept…

Groundviews Groundviews on 12/09/201712/09/2017
Colombo, Development, Economy, Identity, Peace and Conflict, Political philosophy, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Poverty

Vijay Nagaraj: Contributions to public discourse in many guises

Vijay Nagaraj, who passed away in a tragic car accident in August, was someone I interacted with for around six years. We didn’t meet regularly, yet when we did, we carried on…

Sanjana Hattotuwa Sanjana Hattotuwa on 12/08/201712/08/2017
Human Rights, Issues, Media and Communications, Science and Technology

Blocked: RTI requests reveal process behind blocking of websites in Sri Lanka

Featured image courtesy Sri Lanka Brief On November 8, 2017 news began to spread that website Lankaenews had been blocked across all Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Sri Lanka. The website itself…

Raisa Wickrematunge Raisa Wickrematunge on 12/08/201712/08/2017
Constitutional Reform, Issues

Sri Lanka Should Tackle Sexuality, Gender Identity Bias

Featured image courtesy the Scribe Project In November 2015, I sat in a small circle of plastic chairs outside a rustic hotel in Sri Lanka’s coastal town of Ambalangoda. Against a backdrop…

Neela Ghoshal Neela Ghoshal on 12/05/2017
Colombo, Media and Communications, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

Soundbites and sound bytes: Future of digital conversations in Sri Lanka

Even before the end of the war in 2009, but certainly after it, conversations on society, politics, culture, religion and other vital matters are moving online to digital spaces, or are increasingly…

Groundviews Groundviews on 12/04/201712/08/2017
Human Rights, International, Issues

Demand for justice for murdered blogger continues

Featured image courtesy The Wired/Charlie Surbey The start of August saw silent vigils in Male – the capital of the Maldives – to mark the 100th day since the death of liberal…

Isuri Kavirathana Isuri Kavirathana on 12/04/201712/08/2017
Colombo, Development, Politics and Governance

Colombo: The making of a world class city

‘Colombo – the making of a world class city’, a photography exhibition that interrogates and critiques post-war city making in Colombo opens this weekend at the Global Voices Summit 2017 at Trace…

Groundviews Groundviews on 12/01/2017
Arts and Theatre, Colombo

Floating Space Theatre Co. presents ‘rite | now’ at Global Voices Summit

How much do we remember of the time before the internet? How much of ourselves will we leave behind because of the internet, and how much of this do we imagine we…

Groundviews Groundviews on 12/01/2017
Constitutional Reform, International, Issues

Getting over the authoritarian past – an experience of the Catalan Referendum

Featured image courtesy the author – A slogan written by ‘night commandos’, “Referendum is democracy. Vote 1st October” Background of the Catalan Referendum On 28th June 2010, the Supreme Court of Spain…

Garam Kwon Garam Kwon on 12/01/201712/01/2017
Development, Human Rights, Issues, Politics and Governance

“Human rights” for a divided society

Featured image courtesy Adithya Ailes/InterPress News To understand the process of indirect colonisation of the non-white countries in Asia and Africa is to work through the splitting of society in two. When…

Sajeeva Samaranayake Sajeeva Samaranayake on 12/01/201712/01/2017
Constitutional Reform, Issues, Religion and faith

Waiting for the Muslim Man to “Soften Up”

Featured image provided by author, of her maternal grandfather and relatives The Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act (MMDA) is in need of amendment and has been under the scrutiny of a most…

Ameena Hussein Ameena Hussein on 11/27/2017
Issues, Media and Communications, Science and Technology

Sri Lanka’s Digital Future to Take Centre Stage At Global Voices Summit

Featured image courtesy Amila Tennakoon/Global Voices The international citizen media network, Global Voices, will be holding their biennial Summit in Colombo, Sri Lanka on December 2-3, 2017. The event will take place…

Groundviews Groundviews on 11/27/201711/30/2017

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