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Human Rights, justice, Politics and Governance, Presidential Election 2019, Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), Terrorism

Creating National (In)security: Prevention of Terrorism Act and the Death Penalty

Today is the World Day Against the Death Penalty  Today, when globally the call for the abolition of the death penalty is renewed and its inhumane and cruel nature is highlighted, we…

Ambika Satkunanathan Ambika Satkunanathan on 10/10/202110/10/2021
Advocacy, Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Who Wants the Death Penalty?

In 2018 the former President of Sri Lanka, influenced by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s ‘war on drugs’ policy, attempted to resume executions for people convicted of drug trafficking. The President’s move reignited…

Ambika Satkunanathan and Mai Sato Ambika Satkunanathan and Mai Sato on 09/08/202109/08/2021
Human Rights, Issues

Death Penalty: License for Judicial Killings

Last year, on October 2, Iran executed a 24-year-old woman, Zeinab Sekaanvand, who was a child at the time of her alleged offense. Under international law, she should have been excluded from…

Ruki Fernando Ruki Fernando on 06/28/201906/28/2019
Human Rights, International Relations, Issues, Religion and faith

Death penalty in Islam

Featured image courtesy TheDailyJournalist Many Muslims I have spoken to are opposed to the death sentence imposed on the unnamed Sri Lankan housemaid in Saudi Arabia. The death penalty, in my view,…

Reeza Hameed Reeza Hameed on 12/08/2015
Colombo, Human Rights, Politics and Governance

Re-Imposing the Death Penalty

Picture courtesy Vice News Violent crimes, rape and murder seem to be on the increase. Public outrage is understandable. But the demand – “Impose the death penalty with immediate effect” is equally outrageous. …

Leela Isaac Leela Isaac on 10/08/201510/08/2015
Issues, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Reconciliation, Religion and faith

A Pardon, and a Penalty: A Prelude to a Populist?

As we reflect on Sri Lanka’s 71st Independence Day, many things that have political currency come to mind. Free education and healthcare, a reduced cost of living, and anti-corruption are usually among…

Gehan Gunatilleke Gehan Gunatilleke on 02/04/201902/13/2019
Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

The end of one man and the legacy of another: We cannot glorify death

Yesterday we were given a body whose death left me strangely numb. While it was a man whose brutality I condemned, it was not a death that I could celebrate. It was…

Vasuki Nesiah Vasuki Nesiah on 05/20/2009
Advocacy, Human Rights, Human Security, Politics and Governance

Vienna Convention and Sri Lankan Child Worker on Death Row

Donna E. Chung, Ph.D. International Trade and Labour Compliance Advisor Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, P.A. Washington, D.C. 20 July 2007 On 15 July 2007, just one day before the deadline, a judicial…

Groundviews Groundviews on 07/21/2007
Economy, Human Rights, International Relations, Politics and Governance

Something Toxic this Way Comes

“Terror continuous dark terror against the fragile human land…” Zbigniew Herbert (To Marcus Aurelius) Had Sri Lanka a parliamentary system of governance, the Rajapaksas would have been out by now. Thanks to…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 03/20/202203/21/2022
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Politics and Governance

Commissions of Inquiry: Grave Threat to Democracy and Judicial Independence

Several initiatives have already been taken to implement the recommendations of the final report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into political victimization (the CoI) including the obtaining of Cabinet approval, the…

Charya Samarakoon and Kushmila Ranasinghe Charya Samarakoon and Kushmila Ranasinghe on 04/29/2021
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
Colombo, Human Rights, Politics and Governance

A Cruel and Inhumane Prison System Needs Urgent Reform

The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka conducted the first national study on the treatment and conditions of prisoners from February 2018 to January 2020. The findings of the report are very…

Groundviews Groundviews on 12/07/2020
Elections, Political philosophy, Politics and Governance

The US Presidential Election of November, 2020 | Part 2

The looming presidential election of the first week of November, 2020 draws some resemblances to that which confronted John F. Kennedy in the build up to the November 1960 presidential election. Although…

Devanesan Nesiah Devanesan Nesiah on 09/07/202009/09/2020
Colombo, Easter Sunday Terrorist Attacks, Gender, Identity, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Religion and faith

Easter Sunday Attacks: Phobias, Prejudices, and a Paradox

The Easter Sunday attacks were brutal and unprecedented. It surfaced communal prejudices and certain phobias that Sri Lankan society lives with. There is a paradoxical narrative that may help us understand some…

Deepanjalie Abeywardana Deepanjalie Abeywardana on 04/14/2020
Colombo, Human Rights, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Politics and Governance

Justice in the Time of a Pandemic

‘What physicians say about consumptive illness is applicable here: that at the beginning, such an illness is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as time passes, not having been recognised…

Ambika Satkunanathan Ambika Satkunanathan on 03/29/202003/29/2020

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