In a sharp turn towards authoritarianism and archaic religiosity, Indonesia's parliament is expected to pass, within a few days, a new Criminal Code that will extend the ambit of blasphemy, ban criticism of State Institutions and criminalize cohabitation and...
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, quotes the FAO/WFP Hunger Hotspots Report for October 2022 to January 2023, to say that Sri Lanka is listed as a “hotspot of high concern”.
The economic crisis is the “worst...
Given the Indian Central government’s objections to the release of six convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, the Supreme Court is reviewing its November 11 decision to release them.
Art 137 of the Indian Constitution allows such reviews.
Congress leader...
Colombo, November 18:
Despite enacting progressive national policies and becoming a signatory to numerous international conventions aimed at eliminating gender-based violence, recent reports and official statistics indicate a steady increase in violence against women in Sri Lanka, says Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits,...
: Sexual and gender-based violence in the domestic and social spheres is but a reflection of extremism in the public sphere, say Swarna Rajagopalan and Natasha Singh Raghuvanshi, in their paper on the subject in Extremism and Gender-based Violence...
Colombo, November 12: Successive Indian governments have been reluctant to extend reservation in jobs in government and seats in higher educational institutions for converts to Christianity and Islam, though they have extended the facility to converts to Buddhism and...
Migration from Sri Lanka has its agreeable and disagreeable sides. On the one hand, the workers’ remittances are a great help, but on the other, illegal migration shows the country in poor light and the flight of qualified personnel...
Historically a right-wing and White supremacist country, the United States made significant advances towards liberalism and accommodation in recent years, even electing Afro-American Barak Obama as President twice. But the emergence of Donald Trump as a political type, the...
The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, designated as COP27, will be held from November 6 to 18 at Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt. Ahead of that, the noted British general medical journal Lancet has issued a document stating...
India-China relations, never really happy, are at a new low now. There were signs of a rapprochement in the first six years of Modi’s Premiership, but the situation deteriorated sharply after the deadly clashes on the border in 2020....
Women leaders from four provinces in Sri Lanka have urged local government authorities to strengthen efforts to protect women, who have been affected by the country’s economic, political and COVID-19 crises this year.
From March to September, UN Women hosted...
High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka, Gopal Baglay paid a visit to Batticaloa and Trincomalee on October 1 and 2, 2022. In these two days, the High Commissioner had multiple engagements which underscore the multidimensional nature of the...
