Photo courtesy of Monash University Sri Lanka’s Free Trade Zone (FTZ) workers are employed in global factories deeply embedded in global supply chains. Historically, they contribute significantly to Sri Lanka’s export income…
Photo courtesy of IPS Today is the World Day Against Child Labour In the South Asian region, Sri Lanka is a success story when it comes to tackling child labour. The widely…
Photo courtesy of Kumanan Kanapathippillai One of the issues that demonstrated the approach of the Sri Lankan authorities to the problem of enforced disappearances can be discovered in a study of the…
Photo courtesy of Sri Lanka – WordPress By Ermiza Tegal and Amra Ismail Does the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) keep us safe? How often is it misused? Does it cause unjust…
Breakfast for three, hundred and fifty rupees. A trail of tea travelling through cups of steel, One held over another. Trees burdened by what they’ve witnessed, Hunched over. A sly wink. A…
May 18, 2021 marks 12 years since the end of the war. It must be an occasion for us as Sri Lankans to assess progress we have made in addressing root causes…
Photo courtesy of Kumanan Kanapathippillai Over three decades of civil war has touched the lives of Sri Lankans of all ages, all races and all social classes. Fathers, sons, daughters and wives…
Photo courtesy of The Daily Star Last week brought the news of the deaths of two underworld figures – Melon Mabula alias Uru Jawa and Tharaka Perera Wijesekera, alias Kosgoda Tharaka. Both…
Photo courtesy of Think Global Health After much persuading from friends I finally went to get my Covid vaccine. The whole of last week I tried to book a time and place…
Photo courtesy of WSWS “We will grit our teeth and with submission to god, wait, even if the adversary aims at us the stone in the catapult sling, and aims the arrow…
Calling a civil conflict or a civil war, a war itself, is very misleading. Wars are fought with external enemies. However, civil conflict or a civil war is a fight that takes…
Image Courtesy of The Sunday Observer It is a curious thing to imagine the state of human rights around the world if national leaders were simply left to their own devices. Fortunately,…
Photo courtesy of The Telegraph The Sri Lankan Cabinet has agreed a ban on wearing burqas and other full face veils in public, which is almost certain to be approved by Parliament….
Photo courtesy of Sri Lanka Brief Today is World Press Freedom Day with the theme “Information as a Public Good” “Stifling the peaceful expression of legitimate dissent today can only result, inexorably, in…
Photo courtesy of Twitter Ramadan for many of us Muslims is a month of peace and spirituality, a month of tolerance, speaking good words, sharing good thoughts and connecting with God and…
