otion Array Within months of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake lifting the import ban on private vehicles, Colombo’s streets ...

Photo courtesy of Atlantic Council When US President Donald Trump arrogantly suggested that the neighbouring Arab States ...

Photo courtesy of Al Jazeera Sri Lankans have been jolted this month by the prolonged and agonising death of Bhathiya, an ...

Photo courtesy of New York Daily News The anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian sentiments in Sri Lanka have found a new outlet and refuge in the newly discovered word - antisemitism. This article ...

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… ...

About ten years ago, I was staying with a university friend and her family. During my stay, I noticed the way my friend’s husband spoke to her: it was often belittling and demeaning and seemed to be ...

Prosterman in 1976 estimated that some 68 million people have perished from all forms of deliberate human violence from 1820 to 1970. Zimmerman in 2013 found that if the victims of state violence ...

Photo courtesy National Fisheries Solidarity Movement In 2011, a young Advanced Level student from Mullikulam in the district of Mannar, living as an Internally Displaced Person (IDP) in a camp in ...

Some truths are not uncovered by force. They rise slowly, persistently, from the ground because the dead cannot remain forgotten forever. In the quiet village of Chemmani, nestled within the war ...

In the aftermath of the defeat of the LTTE in Sri Lanka, many expected the government to put forward the promised political solution to the problems of the Tamils which led to the war. Those who ...

Photo courtesy of The National A historic and far reaching ruling was delivered by the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka on July 23. The court ruled that emergency regulations imposed by then Acting ...

In the South Asian region, Sri Lanka is a success story when it comes to tackling child labour. The widely prevalent forms of child labour in the 1990s and before, such as children in domestic ...