This Island Nation blessed with an abundance of coastal stretches has attracted many investors, both local and foreign eyeing to extract.....

With increasing reports of grievous incidents of child abuse, the need for an unyielding regulatory body for the protection of children in Sri Lanka is apparent.

This article is based on “Law is Light” -- a series of trilingual legal discussions to educate the general public with Attorneys-at-law of Sri Lanka.

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) which comprises 57 member states raised the issue of Sri Lanka’s COVID-19 cremations at the 46th United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva on February 23. Speaking at the sixth meetin

Last week, the government rejected the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet’s written report on Sri Lanka to the 46th session of the UN Human Rights Council, which is currently in progress. Dinesh Gunawardene, the f

Concerns are raised whether pressure was exerted on Investigation Officers of the Ministry of Education Western Province who were in the process of preparing a report regarding the questionable activities of a principal of a school in Western Provinc

Former Prime Minister and United National Party Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe said the probe on the Easter Sunday attacks has many unanswered questions and this needs to be investigated soon to avoid any similar occurrences in

PCoI report have failed to identify a ‘mastermind’ that destroyed 268 lives and wounded more than 600, but have recommended punitive action....

The anti-Covid-19 vaccines now being rolled out across the globe represent a medical triumph and should reduce the pandemic to a level.....

On Friday February 26, the government finally lifted the ban on burial of patients who die of the coronavirus. It gave no reason for the sudden turnaround.

Sri Lanka is again being raised at the UN Human Rights Council. The moves at the UNHRC are as much the play of geopolitical interests....

In an interview with Daily mirror, a well-known economist, banker, and former State Minister of Finance, Eran Wickramaratne, a National List Parliamentarian....

Torture and murder at police stations are nothing new in Sri Lankan history. Though many international human rights organizations......

Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) Member of Parliament and National Union of Workers Leader Palani Digambaram......

American native Chief Seattle, in a famous speech in 1854 to an audience including the first Governor of Washington Territory.....

It will be near impossible without some ideology to navigate society in its socio-cultural, economic and political directions as it meanders historically....

When the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) was appointed in 2010 by President Mahinda Rajapaksa, the New York based Human Rights....

As a democracy built on British parliamentary model, it is nothing new that Sri Lanka emulates legislative work of the House of Commons....

Sri Lanka is a preferred destination for foreign tourists because of the greeneries and the lushes environment visible in most locations.

The United Nations Human Rights Council is in session and Sri Lanka is among the countries that have come before its scanner.

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) recent statement that they wish to form a BJP in Sri Lanka and Nepal has infuriated many politicians and political commentators of the country.

Vice Chairman of the Ceylon Workers’ Congress (CWC) Senthil Thondaman in an interview with Daily Mirror shared his thoughts on the plight of estate workers and the leadership vacuum created by the demise of ArumugamThondaman.

In 1996 Sri Lanka won the Cricket World Cup. The internet was in its infancy at the time. ‘Social media’ wasn’t a household term. There was no Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and such. There was www.cricinfo.com and, just as now, there was comment

Our main focus today is not on the three islands off the Northern coast leased out to a Chinese company to set up a power project. The company has hit out against any ‘outrageous interference by any third party sans legal and factual basis’ neith

For many right thinking people the upcoming United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) sessions in Geneva offer hopes. These hopes are to have a government that’s responsible and accountable.

With Prime Minister Imran Khan’s scheduled visit to Colombo, Sri Lanka on February 23, the Pakistani Prime Minister....

Pakistan is an Islamic nation, where there is no Buddhist population. Buddhism was discouraged and Buddhists forcibly converted to Islam and....

The much awaited vaccination drive for Sri Lankan healthcare staff began on January 29. The National Advisory Committee on Communicable Diseases....

The Facebook ban on news in Australia on its platform was not totally unexpected. The social media giant has been threatening to do just that for some time.

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), investigating alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka under the US-sponsored Resolution on human....