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Right to Information

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Colombo, Human Rights, Media and Communications, Politics and Governance, Right to Information

Data Protection Bill Allows for Violation of Civil Rights

With the misuse of laws, such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which are aimed at protecting the rights of citizens but are actually used to stifle them,…

Tharindu Jayawardhana Tharindu Jayawardhana on 03/09/202203/31/2022
Colombo, Media and Communications, Politics and Governance, Right to Information

Criminalising Disinformation: Neither the Time nor the Place

A public conversation on criminalising disinformation has re-emerged in Sri Lanka. The government recently announced that it was considering new proposals for a law to curb false and misleading statements. This conversation…

Gehan Gunatilleke Gehan Gunatilleke on 05/26/2021
Colombo, Politics and Governance, Right to Information

Right To Information Act at the Grassroots – Small Steps but Big Impact

That Right to Information (RTI) is a tool for increasing transparency, accountability and better governance practices is widely accepted. But what does research and data say in that regard? During a research…

Ashwini Natesan Ashwini Natesan on 05/24/202105/24/2021
Gampaha, Human Rights, Media and Communications, Moneragala, Politics and Governance, Right to Information, Trincomalee, Writers Under Siege

October – A Bleak Month for Freedom of Expression

Today is the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists October was a bleak month for freedom of expression with four cases of assault against five provincial journalists. All five…

Ruki Fernando Ruki Fernando on 11/02/202011/02/2020
Colombo, Constitutional Reform, Elections, Parliamentary Elections 2020, Politics and Governance, Right to Information

The Last Days of the Nineteenth Amendment?

These could be the last days of the Nineteenth Amendment. If not of its entirety, at least of a part of it, even a substantial part of it. The message that the…

Dr. Kalana Senaratne Dr. Kalana Senaratne on 07/30/2020
Media and Communications, Right to Information

Challenging a Culture of Secrecy

While the Sri Lankan State maintains a culture of secrecy cemented through legislation like the Official Secrets Act, the Right to Information Act, operationalised in early 2017, is now used by citizens,…

Groundviews Groundviews on 03/22/2019
Gender, Right to Information, Right to Information

Systemic Violence: Mapping Police Statistics On Sexual Abuse

In 2016, mapped incidents of street harassment for International Women’s Day. None of these incidents had been reported to the police. Those who contributed their stories to the map recounted experiences that remained…

Raisa Wickrematunge Raisa Wickrematunge on 03/08/201907/28/2020
Politics and Governance, Right to Information

The Language Barrier

Sitting on Editor Selvaraja Rajasegar’s desk is a thick envelope containing details of elephant deaths on the railway track. The information took him over a month to receive, because he made the…

Groundviews Groundviews on 02/27/2019
Development, Disaster Management, Issues, Right to Information, Right to Information

Managing Chaos: Why Sri Lanka Needs To Think Long Term For Disaster Response

In 2017, filed a series of RTI requests to ascertain more about Sri Lanka’s early warning system. (Click here and here to see the original RTI requests filed with the Metereological Department and…

Raisa Wickrematunge Raisa Wickrematunge on 12/21/201807/28/2020
Human Rights, Issues, Media and Communications, Politics and Governance, Right to Information, Right to Information

RTI Reveals Lanka E News Blocked On Order from President’s Office

In December 2017, received a list of 13 websites that had been blocked from 2015 onwards by the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC), via a Right to Information request. The documentation uncovered the…

Raisa Wickrematunge Raisa Wickrematunge on 04/11/201807/28/2020
Human Rights, Issues, Media and Communications, Right to Information, Science and Technology

Blocked: RTI requests reveal process behind blocking of websites in Sri Lanka

On November 8, 2017 news began to spread that website Lankaenews had been blocked across all Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Sri Lanka. The website itself has continually been mired in controversy…

Raisa Wickrematunge Raisa Wickrematunge on 12/08/201708/01/2020
Disaster Management, Issues, Right to Information

A Tale of Incompetence – RTI Reveals CMC Inaction Leading Up To Meethotamulla Tragedy

On April 14, 2017 the garbage dump in Meethotamulla collapsed, killing 32 people. These deaths could have been avoided. That they could not, points to a systematic failure of the State to…

Raisa Wickrematunge Raisa Wickrematunge on 06/20/201708/01/2020

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