20October2019
Featured Articles
Featured Articles
Award winning Sri Lankan playwright penalised under UN law
Police in Sri Lanka have used a UN backed law designed to protect fundamental rights including freedom of expression for legal action against an award winning playwright. Malaka Devapriya was interrog...
Interviews
Interviews
'Sri Lanka and Myanmar are ethnocratic states' - Dr Maung Zarni
'Enemy of the State' screamed the banner headline of a Burmese national newspaper in September, featuring full page photograph of Maung Zarni. More hatred follows, a week later. "These publications ar...
Politics & Current Affairs
Top military ranks to Sri Lanka ex commanders “illegal and undemocratic”
Questions have been raised as to the legality of SL President’s decision to awar...
Media
Pressure mounts on Sri Lanka to release writer jailed by misusing UN treaty law
International rights watchdogs have intensified their campaign urging authoritie...
Human Rights
Tamils protest arrest of doctor with “expertise to expose war crimes”
Tamils in northern Sri Lanka have been protesting the detention of a forensic ex...
International Affairs
Future Labour government to reexamine military assistance to Sri Lanka (VIDEO)
British military assistance to Sri Lanka will be reviewed under a future Labour ...
Politics & Economy
Resolving Sri Lanka’s political squabbles won’t end Sinhala Buddhist militancy
\There has been a rash of public commentary in recent days blaming the Easter Su...
Media & Culture
Fare thee well Jean, the snow white Rose from the hills!
We sit in your quiet hallway; introducing ourselves to the curious you. I look d...
Reflections
Seeing Each Other: Remembering Jean Arasanayagam (1931-2019)
How do I begin? Perhaps with a conversation between two poets, both women, both ...
Poetry & Prose
Press Releases
JDS condemns attacks on journalists following Sri Lanka Easter Massacre
Journaists for Democracy in Sri Lanka denounces the spiteful hate campaign direc...
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