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Colombo, Gender, Healthcare, Human Rights, Politics and Governance

Bodily Harm: Abortion and the Rights of Women in Sri Lanka

The title of this article is taken from a collection of short stories by Margaret Atwood who has attained celebrity cult status recently due to her dystopic novel The Handmaid’s Tale, which…

Lilanka Botejue and Devika Brendon Lilanka Botejue and Devika Brendon on 06/29/202206/29/2022
Colombo, Gender, Healthcare, Politics and Governance

Extracting Labor, Constructing Power: The Right to Abortion

resurj Sri Lanka enshrines a right to universal healthcare but critically neglects women in this universal promise. Acknowledging that abortion is politicized through its economic and colonial history is crucial for recognizing…

Shenali Pilapitiya Shenali Pilapitiya on 10/31/202010/31/2020
Gender, Healthcare, Human Rights

Abortion – Where is Sri Lanka On The Spectrum?

“If you are not in favour of legal abortion, then you are in favour of illegal abortion” Prof. Arulkumaran On October 28, 2012, Savita Halappanavar, a young Indian dentist, died in Ireland…

Saira Meyler Saira Meyler on 09/02/201809/04/2018
Gender, Healthcare, Human Rights, Issues

Abortion: A Reply

In an article a few weeks ago, I argued that an embryo is a person with dignity and rights, and that this must change how we see both abortion pregnancy. There were…

Sanjayan Rajasingham Sanjayan Rajasingham on 10/07/2017
Advocacy, Gender, Human Rights, Issues, Politics and Governance

Let Women Decide: Some Feminist Perspectives on the ‘Abortion Debate’

At this moment in Sri Lanka, ‘the abortion debate’ has sprung up once again; with the cabinet purportedly attempting to pass a bill which would legalize abortions for women under two circumstances[1]…

Subha Wijesiriwardena Subha Wijesiriwardena on 10/01/201710/07/2017
Colombo, Gender, Healthcare, Human Rights, Politics and Governance

A womb of one’s own: Life, abortion and motherhood in Sri Lanka

Photograph: Paul Mezzer/FRF/Getty via The Irish Times From well-intentioned comments about our weight and skin colour, to the insidious experience of being followed as we walk on the street, women are wearily…

Meghal Perera Meghal Perera on 09/23/201710/01/2017
Gender, Human Rights, Issues

Abortion, Women and Personhood

The government’s plans to liberalise Sri Lanka’s abortion laws has polarised public opinion. Abortion is either supported as a natural extension of a woman’s autonomy and right to choose, or is opposed…

Sanjayan Rajasingham Sanjayan Rajasingham on 09/20/201710/01/2017
Gender, Healthcare, Human Rights, Issues, Religion and faith

The Abortion Debate: The Absence of Questions

The government of Sri Lanka recently announced plans to widen the scope of the law on abortion.  This initiative was subsequently put on hold because of strong opposition from religious leaders and…

Sanjit Dias Sanjit Dias on 09/13/201710/01/2017
Advocacy, Colombo, Gender, Healthcare, Human Rights, Religion and faith

The Abortion Debate: Mismatched and Misplaced?

Image courtesy Asia Society I once came into contact with a woman on account of a professional relationship we had. We had met to discuss her prolonged absence from work. With a…

Dinesha Samararatne Dinesha Samararatne on 09/13/201710/01/2017
Colombo, Gender, Identity, Poetry

The Sri Lankan Kella

  I am the woman of my country The product of ‘culture’, of history of a nation The result of procreation The manufactured playground of patriarchy The battlefield of nationalism I am…

Lilanka Botejue Lilanka Botejue on 03/08/202303/08/2023
Colombo, Gender, Healthcare, Human Rights, Politics and Governance

Finding the Crime in Reproductive Choice

International Women’s Month was heralded by the familiar sound of male decision making in Sri Lanka’s parliament. The agenda for International Women’s Day was the legalization of abortion in the instance of…

Shenali Pilapitiya Shenali Pilapitiya on 03/24/202203/24/2022
Colombo, Gender, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Post-War

Facing the Ongoing Trauma of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence

Almost every conflict  around the world from Bosnia to Syria, Myanmar, Ethiopia and Sri Lanka, involves Conflict-Related Sexual Violence (CRSV). It refers to rape, sexual slavery, forced prostitution, forced pregnancy, forced abortion,…

Groundviews Groundviews on 06/19/2021
Colombo, Gender, Human Rights, justice, Politics and Governance

Reforms Needed to Combat Sexual and Gender Based Violence

In his presidential election manifesto, Gotabaya Rajapaksa noted that “Sexual and Gender Based violence has increased in our country”. However, during his first year in office, little has been done to introduce…

Khyati Wikramanayake Khyati Wikramanayake on 01/23/202101/23/2021
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Politics and Governance

Abolition Is Not A Whimsical Dream: Envisioning a Life Beyond the Carceral State

Abolition is not a delusional cry for social chaos. It goes beyond the momentary, deconstructive approach of eliminating the police. Abolition calls for the active reimagining and recreation of a society in…

Shenali Pilapitiya Shenali Pilapitiya on 01/18/202101/18/2021
Gender, Human Rights, Issues, Long Reads, The Constitutional Coup

The Violence in Sri Lankan Parliament: A Mirror Image of Our Culture of Violence

“” George Orwell “.” Alexander Solzhenitsyn There is no gainsaying in condemning the current parliamentary violence. Nevertheless, our reactions to such violence—surprise and shock—imply that we think such abhorrent uncivilised behavior is…

Jude Fernando Jude Fernando on 11/26/2018

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