Photo courtesy of ICRC Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict Almost every conflict around the world from Bosnia to Syria, Myanmar, Ethiopia and Sri Lanka,…
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…
Image Courtesy of Amalini de Sayrah The first five months of 2009 brought immense and unprecedented pain to the people of northern Sri Lanka, and to their many Tamil relatives outside the…
Photo courtesy of World of the Written Word Today is the International Day of Living Together in Peace According to Greek legend, Sisyphus has the wretched task of rolling a huge boulder…
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…
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…
The voices on the walkie-talkie sound alarming. The eyes of security officers in uniform search for unknown faces. They stand 500 meters away from the church and closely monitor the situation. Those…
When new faces are seen at the Zion evangelical church in Batticaloa, it is customary for the pastor to welcome them. As a healing church, it is open to non-Christians. Two years…
