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Colombo, Human Rights, International, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Burning Worlds, Reigning on Ashes

An American president becomes embroiled in a sex scandal. To divert public attention, his advisors recruit a Hollywood producer to invent a war against Albania. That was the plot of the US…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 06/22/2025
Colombo, International, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Iran Gives Israel a Taste of its Own Medicine

The long awaited aerial military showdown between Iran and Israel has begun in earnest. As Chris Hedges noted in his column in of June 16, while US Secretary of State Marco Rubio…

Dr Ameer Ali Dr Ameer Ali on 06/20/2025
Colombo, Human Rights, International, justice, Peace and Conflict, War Crimes

The Madleen: An Act of Resistance Against Israel’s Genocide

“I’m sorry I’m not around with you these days, my love. But Daddy is trying to bring food to children just as beautiful as you – children who are being starved by…

Serena and Satya Burgess Serena and Satya Burgess on 06/17/2025
Colombo, Human Rights, International, justice, Politics and Governance

Sri Lanka, the West and Arabs on Palestine

When the entire Global North led by a sociopath US president whose cognitive capacity is under media scrutiny, has thrown its unreserved support behind Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s IDF to cleanse…

Dr Ameer Ali Dr Ameer Ali on 05/09/2025
Arts and Theatre, Colombo, Human Rights, International, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Witnessing Two Genocides Happening Now

As part of the Kolamba Kamatha Festival, Stages Theatre Group presented , two powerful plays of remembering, witnessing and refusing to look away. In , playwright Ruwanthi De Chickera distills the complexity…

Mia Abeyawardene Mia Abeyawardene on 04/01/202504/03/2025
Colombo, Human Rights, International, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Sri Lanka’s Response to the UK Sanctions

Last year, I studied in some depth perceptions of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD) and the National People’s Power (NPP) after the consequential presidential election and again after the even more significant…

Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa on 03/27/2025
Colombo, Human Rights, International, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, War Crimes

Sanctions: A Step in the Right Direction to Combat Impunity

The UK government has announced sanctions on three top former war time military commanders and a former LTTE commander accused of serious human rights violations and abuses such as extra judicial killings,…

Groundviews Groundviews on 03/26/202503/26/2025
Colombo, Human Rights, International, Politics and Governance, Reconciliation, Transitional Justice

Long Way to Go on Rights for All

In an oral update session on progress in Reconciliation and Accountability in Sri Lanka Maarit Kohonen Sheriff, Director of the Global Operations Division in the Office of the UN High Commissioner for…

Savitri Hensman Savitri Hensman on 03/10/202503/10/2025
Human Rights, International, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Arab Counter Plan for Gaza: An Exercise in Futility

Gaza, a thriving cosmopolitan trading town along Via Maris trade route between Egypt and Turkey until 1948, became the Gaza Strip since then and remained the largest refugee camp for two million…

Dr Ameer Ali Dr Ameer Ali on 02/25/202502/25/2025
Human Rights, International, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

President Donald Trump’s Gaza Riviera: Madness or Calculated Ploy?

To Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his circle of Zionists, not to mention the Christian evangelists in the US, US President Donald Trump’s announcement to acquire the Gaza Strip – a…

Dr Ameer Ali Dr Ameer Ali on 02/13/2025
International, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

President Donald Trump, Oil and Palestine

The second term of President Donald Trump, a convicted felon and a man of contradictions with fascist traits, is proving to be a bonanza to American billionaires and corporate moguls and disaster…

Dr Ameer Ali Dr Ameer Ali on 02/05/2025
Colombo, Development, Diplomacy, Economy, International, International Relations, Politics and Governance

On the US Foreign Assistance Pause

US President Donald Trump has ordered a 90 day pause on all foreign assistance and aid programmes, with a few exceptions. The pause is supposedly for the US government to take an…

Uditha Devapriya Uditha Devapriya on 02/01/2025
Colombo, Human Rights, IDPs and Refugees, International, justice, Politics and Governance

Vulnerable Visitors: The Test of a Nation’s Conscience

The recent arrival of a boat full of Rohingyas in the country raises some associated questions. What is the responsibility of the government towards such vulnerable visitors and what was the fate…

Bishop Duleep de Chickera Bishop Duleep de Chickera on 01/29/2025
Colombo, Culture, Gender, Human Rights, International, justice, Politics and Governance

Chasing the Elusive Rainbow

news click What does a second Donald Trump presidency really mean, especially for women and minority rights not only in the US but also globally? (Un)fortunately, we have a considerable number of…

Rosanna Flamer-Caldera Rosanna Flamer-Caldera on 01/28/202501/28/2025
International, Poetry, Politics and Governance

Outside the Oval Office

  I make poems constantly about oddities and offenses in American political practice, how one president sent bombs, jets, and drones for use by a rogue state and its murderous army,  …

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 01/22/2025

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