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Human Rights

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Colombo, Culture, Development, Economy, Human Rights, Politics and Governance

Women in the Estate Sector Face Many Layers of Discrimination

Maatram Women played a significant part in the growth and stability of the plantation economy throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Women were brought along with men by the British…

Diana Joseph Diana Joseph on 08/18/2022
Colombo, Economy, Human Rights, Peace and Conflict, Poetry, Politics and Governance

The Right Queue

  Poems are waiting in a queue. But that is alright. They are poems only, not people lining up for kerosene, or fish, or paper. or petrol. I write them in a…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 08/15/2022
Colombo, Human Rights, Peace and Conflict, Poetry, Politics and Governance

What’s Left

  We are tired, and we have cooking gas now, and fuel shipments have docked. So we will get back to the business   of living and not worry anymore about the…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 08/11/2022
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Politics and Governance

Free Joseph

Free Joseph Stalin. Let Father Jeewantha Peiris walk out of hiding in peace to attend to his parishioners.   Let Mahanama Thero stop on the side of the road to counsel passers…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 08/10/2022
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Legal System Damaged by Illegal Arrests and Detentions

Illegal arrests and illegal detentions do not only harm individuals – they also cause irreparable damage to the legal system as a whole. The recent wave of arrests of those who participated…

Basil Fernando Basil Fernando on 08/09/2022
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Poetry, Politics and Governance

To Survive, Even Thrive

  My country will survive corruption in parliament, arbitrary arrests ordered by the executive, bodies washing up at Galle Face, at the Beira Lake.   My country will survive farmers shooting elephants…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 08/08/2022
Colombo, Economy, Healthcare, Human Rights, Politics and Governance, Poverty

Economic Crisis Badly Impacting Most Vulnerable

Families in Sri Lanka are fast adopting negative coping strategies to deal with the economic crisis. A recently concluded Rapid Needs Assessment by Save the Children revealed that families are resorting to…

Save the Children Save the Children on 08/08/202208/10/2022
Colombo, Human Rights, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

D-Day for the Aragalaya

Mahatma Gandhi said that civil disobedience became a sacred duty when the state became lawless and corrupt. To the diehard protesters left at the diminished GotaGoGama, Gandhi’s words are at the heart…

Minoli de Soysa Minoli de Soysa on 08/05/202208/05/2022
Colombo, Human Rights, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Father Jeewantha Peiris: A Warrior for Truth and Justice

Rediff Ever since the aragalaya began in April this year, Father Jeewantha Peiris has been a familiar figure in the forefront of the protesters, easily identifiable by his flowing black hair and…

Minoli de Soysa Minoli de Soysa on 08/04/202208/04/2022
Colombo, Human Rights, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Aragalaya: For Everybody

  This is not only about sitting on the verandah with a scotch and a pig in a blanket. This is not only about picking up the beat and dancing   the…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 08/03/202208/03/2022
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Aragalaya: A State of Mind

Wijewardene   We are taught to be modest, circumspect, wrapped under covers, demurring, scuttling away like mice. We are educated to be peons, servile class members, ambitions tempered, molded to fit the…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 08/02/202208/02/2022
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Stabilising Sri Lanka, Learning from July 1983

Arrests, amidst a wider crackdown on protesters in Sri Lanka, threaten progress in tackling the economic crisis. Although a show of repressive force may be intended in part to promote stability, in…

Savitri Hensman Savitri Hensman on 08/02/202208/02/2022
Colombo, Human Rights, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Widespread Arrests Used to Intimidate the Population

From all parts of the country, there are reports of arrests of people who participated in the protests that erupted against the hardships caused by the economic meltdown. For months people made…

Basil Fernando Basil Fernando on 08/01/202208/01/2022
Colombo, Human Rights, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Government Harassment of Protesters and Journalists Intensifies

Despite widespread condemnation of the arrests, intimidation and harassment of peaceful protesters by the state, activists and journalists continued to be targeted for reprisals for their part in the aragalaya. The repressive…

Groundviews Groundviews on 07/29/202207/29/2022
Human Rights, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Remember the Riots, Transitional Justice

July 1983 Pogrom: the Black Week that Impacted Sri Lanka Forever

The political leadership of Sri Lanka has yet again demonstrated that even in the midst of the worst socio economic and political crisis the country has faced since independence, they do not…

Lionel Bopage Lionel Bopage on 07/24/202207/24/2022

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