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Colombo, Gender, Human Rights, Identity, justice, Politics and Governance

Working Towards Acceptance and Recognition for the LGBTIQ Community

In a historic landmark decision, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) found that Sri Lanka’s criminalizing of same-sex sexual relations under section 365A of the Penal Code…

Groundviews Groundviews on 03/31/202203/31/2022
Colombo, Culture, Development, Moving Images, Politics and Governance

Capturing the Disappearing Glory of Slave Island

As elegant old buildings and diverse neighbourhoods disappear before our eyes, sacrificed on the altar of development, a group of people came together in 2018 to initiate the We Are From Here…

Groundviews Groundviews on 03/04/202203/04/2022
Colombo, Economy, Human Rights, Pandemic, Politics and Governance

Does the Apparel Industry Supply Garments Without Guilt?

Sri Lanka’s apparel workers, mostly female, provide an important contribution to the country’s economy. In 2019, apparel exports amounted to $5.2 billion, almost 40% of all exports. The industry provides direct employment…

Groundviews Groundviews on 02/25/202203/03/2022
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Reconciliation, Transitional Justice

Twelve Cries From Home: Searing Accounts from Families of the Disappeared

“Sri Lanka has the world’s second-highest number of cases registered with the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances. Since the 1980s, an estimated 60,000 to 100,000 people from all…

Groundviews Groundviews on 02/01/202202/03/2022
Arts and Theatre, Colombo, Culture, Disabilities, Human Rights, IDPs and Refugees, Longing and Belonging, Peace and Conflict, Post-War, Reconciliation

Atrocities of the Civil War Through the Eyes of Artists

A common theme running through this year’s Colomboscope, entitled Language is Migrant, is the enduring consequences of Sri Lanka’s civil war as seen through the eyes of several young artists based in…

Groundviews Groundviews on 01/28/202201/28/2022
Colombo, Education, Pandemic, Politics and Governance, Youth

Tackling Access to Education During Covid-19

Sri Lanka can be justly proud of its educated population and high literacy rate due to decades of free education up to university level. Universal access to primary education has been achieved…

Groundviews Groundviews on 01/24/202201/24/2022
Colombo, Development, Economy, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Youth

To Flee or Not to Flee, That is the Question

Once known as being the best fed, most educated and healthiest people in South Asia, Sri Lankans are facing the bleak prospect of a full blown economic crisis that will dramatically push…

Groundviews Groundviews on 01/19/202201/21/2022
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Reconciliation, Transitional Justice

Taking the Military to Task with International Sanctions

While Sri Lanka grapples with an inevitable economic meltdown, the international community has not forgotten the country’s obligations to move towards a reconciled society through the process of transitional justice. One of…

Groundviews Groundviews on 01/17/2022
Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Stumbling from One Annus Horribilis to Another

The newspaper headlines say it all – gas shortages, no money to import medicine, there will be no bread soon, staple vegetables are unaffordable, power cuts are starting and there is only…

Groundviews Groundviews on 01/10/202201/10/2022
Batticaloa, Easter Sunday Terrorist Attacks, Human Rights, Peace and Conflict, Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA)

Batticaloa Bears Impact of Easter Sunday Attacks

Sri Lanka’s return to terror came on April 21, 2019 with the bombing of three hotels and three churches that killed 267 people and injured about 500. The trial of 25 men…

Groundviews Groundviews on 01/05/2022
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, Corruption, Development, Economy, justice, Politics and Governance

Combatting Corruption is Everybody’s Fight

The sad story of corruption in Sri Lanka stretches far back and, by all accounts, will be stretching far into the future as well. On the 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) compiled…

Groundviews Groundviews on 12/09/202112/09/2021
Colombo, Gender, Human Rights, Politics and Governance, Youth

Boys Cry Too

Boys are often under represented or even ignored in the fight against child sexual exploitation due to the stereotyping of gender traits with males being considered strong and invulnerable and less likely…

Groundviews Groundviews on 11/23/202111/24/2021
20th Amendment, Economy, Environment, Human Rights, International Relations, Pandemic, Parliamentary Elections 2020, Peace and Conflict, Presidential Election 2019

Gotabaya Rajapaksa: A Two Year Timeline

To coincide with the end of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s second year in office, the Centre for Policy Alternatives produced a video timeline detailing some of the defining moments of the President’s past…

Groundviews Groundviews on 11/22/202111/23/2021
Colombo, Politics and Governance, Youth

The Growing Dangers of Online Sexual Exploitation of Children

It was a horrifying and sickening case. A 15 year old child was groomed online and sexually abused by dozens of men including a local government politician, a Buddhist monk, a Navy…

Groundviews Groundviews on 11/20/202111/22/2021

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