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Author: Hans Billimoria

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Colombo, Gender, Politics and Governance, Youth

Urgent Need for Comprehensive Age-Appropriate Relationship Education

On the 21st of January 2016 the published ‘Wariyapola Hit by HIV’ – a news report outlining that “The Kurunegala district has the second largest number of HIV infected cases among all…

Hans Billimoria Hans Billimoria on 01/27/201601/27/2016
Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Politics and Governance, Post-War, War Crimes

Revaluation of Values: Applying the Pullman Principle to Post-War Sri Lanka

Photo by LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI/AFP/Getty Images via Al Jazeera America This past couple of weeks I’ve been rereading Philip Pullman’s ‘His Dark Materials’ trilogy. I first picked up ‘Northern Lights’ (Book 1) in…

Hans Billimoria Hans Billimoria on 06/06/201406/03/2014
Arts and Theatre, Colombo, Gender, Human Security

Daddy: A Mad Incestuous Dance

Incest in this country has probably been always spoken about, albeit in hushed, almost reverent whispers. Curiosity has probably always led to incestuous acts among children, but then, is that something we…

Hans Billimoria Hans Billimoria on 07/21/2013
Colombo, Healthcare, Human Rights, Human Security, Identity

A man, a magistrate and 220 intimates: A reflection of the HIV response in Sri Lanka

2012: A man dies of AIDS in prison. A magistrate orders all 220 inmates that shared his ward to get tested. 2011: The National HIV/AIDS Policy was passed by parliament. Article 3.6…

Hans Billimoria Hans Billimoria on 06/15/201206/15/2012
Colombo, Gender, Identity, Peace and Conflict, Post-War

Buddha wept as we beat our women

54% of adolescent girls in Sri Lanka feel that a husband is justified in beating his wife. The UNICEF Global Report Card on Adolescents 2012 however is not available yet to try…

Hans Billimoria Hans Billimoria on 04/27/2012
Colombo, Education, Features, Healthcare, International

World AIDS Day is passed. Let’s begin forgetting again.

This was the first World AIDS Day I chose to ignore. The first World AIDS Day that I tried to boycott. Every year since I got into this business, December 1st has…

Hans Billimoria Hans Billimoria on 12/03/201112/06/2011
Colombo, Features, Gender, Human Security, Identity, Politics and Governance

Are there really gay Sri Lankans?

As I write this, friends and people I have worked with, are living in fear. In truth, since Saturday before last (10th September) when Rivira published their exposé on condoms and lubricating…

Hans Billimoria Hans Billimoria on 09/21/2011
Colombo, Identity, International, Youth

Living with HIV in Sri Lanka: Reflections from ICAAP10 in Busan, Korea

World AIDS Day, 2010, One Voice – SARYN We were in Busan, Korea last week, where S, a young man living with HIV, and I were presenting at the International Conference on AIDS…

Hans Billimoria Hans Billimoria on 09/07/2011
Colombo, Gender, Human Rights, Identity

These Sri Lankan whores! Serve them right!

Name and shame the whores that act in pornographic films online. Their seedy grainy stuck-between-teeth pictures plastered across newspapers will be the deterrent for other whores who have the same idea. Designate…

Hans Billimoria Hans Billimoria on 11/17/2010

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