21September2018
Featured Articles
Featured Articles
Report on male sexual violence in Sri Lanka records over 100 cases (VIDEO)
Tamil women representing tens of thousands who disappeared during Sri Lanka’s war and its aftermath have been stopped from entering Switzerland. The Swiss embassy in Colombo has refused visa....
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
Sri Lanka: Locals push back bid to erect Buddha statue in Tamil area
Tamil villagers and politicians succeeded in stopping a state assisted group led...
Media
Britain dodges questions on Sri Lanka's request to punish journalist (UPDATE)
British authorities are silent on a damning news report about a top-level meetin...
Human Rights
Court restricts media coverage of Sri Lanka's mass grave
Restrictions have been placed on media coverage of a mass grave believed to be t...
International Affairs
Indian activist released by court and arrested by police fears for life
A prominent anti-Hindutva activist who campaigns for corporate accountability ex...
Politics & Social Issues
'In this country, for everything, the penalty is death' - Bala Tampoe
Sri Lanka's firebrand trade unionist and renowned leftist Bala Tampoe, died on t...
Politics & Economy
Don't Rehabilitate Sri Lanka's Tarnished Military
The Hindu recently ran a curious interview with Mahesh Senanayake, Commander of ...
Human Rights
Can OMP deliver justice when Sri Lanka's President won't?
Confronted by vocal and combative family members of the disappeared – nearly all...
Poetry & Prose
Get customized to laugh
When there’s chance,
To the, extent possible,
We will laugh aloud.
Pressure that ar...
Press Releases
Sri Lanka: 'End brutal crackdown against students' - JDS
The Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka has called on the Sri Lankan authorit...
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