Fatima is a 17 year-old refugee child who has been living in Sri Lanka nearly 14 years. She and her family had arrived in Sri Lanka in 2012 and have been recognised as refugees by the UN High ...

The Meethotamulla garbage dump, which collapsed on April 14, 2017 killing 32 people, looks almost like a forest now. People in the area have even used the hill to build replicas of Mihinthale and ...

Efforts by several governments to amend labour laws in ways that primarily benefit employers have repeatedly been defeated due to strong opposition from trade unions. The current government has also ...

Words shape reality. In modern warfare, no phrase has done more to obscure atrocity than the two word construction: collateral damage. It is tidy. It is clinical. It is lethal to the truth. The term ...

Sri Lanka did not enter 2026 through celebration. It crossed the threshold quietly, carrying grief. The final days of 2025 did not offer closure but catastrophe. Cyclone Ditwah, the most devastating ...

The principal problem faced by people due to the economic crisis is of rising prices while incomes for many remain unchanged. As a result, the poverty rate has doubled from 2021 from 13% to 25%, ...

A social debate over the new education reforms is emerging amid rumors that history and aesthetics subjects have been removed from the curriculum. Not only have some teachers’ unions and political ...

“If a monk, after taking on a monk’s training and way of life, without first renouncing the training and revealing his weakness, has sexual intercourse, even with a female animal, he is expelled and ...

On 20 December 2009, we mark the 15th death anniversary of Professor Cyril Ponnamperuma, one of the best known scientists produced by Sri Lanka during the Twentieth Century. He was both an ...

What are the constitutional and legal implications of the proposed Colombo Port City Economic Commission? I take the view that in terms of design and effect, this proposed Bill seeks to carve out the ...

It has been 36 years since the murder of Richard de Zoysa, an internationally known journalist, artist, political and cultural critic and human rights activist. In the early hours of February 18, 1990 ...

Over the past two years, Sri Lanka’s legislative landscape has become a testing ground for the future of free expression. Freedom of expression has always been a fragile promise in Sri Lanka’s ...