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Year: 2021

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Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Memorialisation, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Reconciliation, Transitional Justice

Desmond Tutu – An Inspiration and Challenge for Sri Lanka

Desmond Tutu was a black, South African, Christian male but in a world where colour, caste, class, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, sexuality and gender matter, he transcended all of that to be a…

Ruki Fernando Ruki Fernando on 12/31/202112/31/2021
Human Rights, Human Security, Media and Communications, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Reconciliation

2021: The Year in Review

2020 flowed into 2021 with a continued air of uncertainty due to the unrelenting spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The third wave saw cases and deaths rise exponentially, taking the country’s healthcare…

Groundviews Groundviews on 12/30/202112/30/2021
Colombo, Economy, Environment, Farming & Agriculture, Politics and Governance

Making Cash from Trash

The organic fertilizer ship from China was one of the hotly debated topics in Sri Lanka. The quality of the fertilizer shipment, which resulted heated exchanges between the stakeholders, almost sparked a…

Prof. Hiroshan Hettiarachchi Prof. Hiroshan Hettiarachchi on 12/30/202103/22/2022
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Reconciliation, Transitional Justice

Desmond Tutu: The Man Who Revived the Moral Universe

Archbishop Desmond Tutu who passed away this week will be counted among the great human beings who contributed to the political transformation of his own country and a person who revolutionised the…

Basil Fernando Basil Fernando on 12/29/2021
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA)

An Unjust Justice System Needs to Be Changed

Two prisoners in Sri Lanka were recently released after being detained for many years, a harsh reminder of the ease with which people can be locked up on flimsy grounds. This has…

Savitri Hensman Savitri Hensman on 12/28/202112/28/2021
Colombo, Constitutional Reform, Politics and Governance

The Need for People’s Participation in Constitution Making

A fake constitution alters the rules of logic that are the basic foundations of a good constitution. The change of logic leads to irrationality. The spread of irrationality into public institutions creates…

Basil Fernando Basil Fernando on 12/26/202112/26/2021
Colombo, Politics and Governance

Weaponising Buddhism: Will the Third Wave Be the Last?

Independent Sri Lanka experienced three waves of weaponsation of Buddhism. The first was when S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike embraced the Buddhist Commission Report. D.S. Senanayake had refused, on Constitutional grounds, a request by the…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 12/19/202112/19/2021
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Politics and Governance

Families of Prisoners are Human Beings

In December 2008, Human Rights Office Kandy (HROK) had started to present human rights awards during the celebration of International Human Rights Day. I was among those who received an award and…

Ruki Fernando Ruki Fernando on 12/19/202112/19/2021
Colombo, Development, Education

A Migrant’s View

I was born in 1990, a time when Sri Lanka was still going through its 30-year civil war which ultimately ended in 2009. I lived in greater Colombo, and I went to…

Gayara De Silva Gayara De Silva on 12/18/202112/19/2021
Colombo, Economy, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

The 2022 Budget As I See It

The second budget of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s government was presented on November 12 by his younger brother Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa. Cheer leaders and image builders claim the budget is extra ordinarily…

Chandrasena Maliyadde Chandrasena Maliyadde on 12/17/202112/17/2021
Colombo, Economy, Human Rights, Kilinochchi, Politics and Governance, Poverty

The Plight of Up Country Tamils in the North

Ever since they were brought to Sri Lanka from South India by the British colonists to work on the coffee, tea and rubber plantations Malayaha Tamils, more commonly known as Hill Country Tamils, Up…

Selvaraja Rajasegar Selvaraja Rajasegar on 12/15/202112/15/2021
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Politics and Governance

Downgrading Human Rights Commission No Remedy for Victims

The recommendation to downgrade Sri Lanka’s Human Rights Commission (HRC) from Grade A to Grade B by the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights,…

Basil Fernando Basil Fernando on 12/14/2021
Peace and Conflict

Historic Court Win for LGBTIQ Community

Thanks to archaic, Victorian-era laws that are still present in Sri Lanka, the country’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, and Queer/Questioning (LGBTIQ) community has been marginalised and discriminated against for over a…

EQUAL GROUND, Sri Lanka EQUAL GROUND, Sri Lanka on 12/13/202112/13/2021
Colombo, Economy, Farming & Agriculture, Politics and Governance

Farmers Bear the Deadly Cost of Going Instantly Organic

The biggest gamble of a lifetime is being played out in the fields of Sri Lanka by over a million people today. Paddy sowing for the rain fed Maha season is almost…

A Subsistence Farmer A Subsistence Farmer on 12/13/202103/22/2022
Colombo, Gender, Human Rights, justice, Politics and Governance

Proving Minister Keheliya Rambukwella Wrong About LGBT+ Rights

The Court of Appeal on December 8, 2021 ordered issuance of notices in a writ application by which several activists sought an order against Sri Lanka Police to prevent discrimination and vilification…

Visakesa Chandrasekaram Visakesa Chandrasekaram on 12/11/2021

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