Border and maritime security vulnerable
The Country Reports on Terrorism 2019 was released on 24 June 2020. The report covers developments in countries in which…
HRW calls for probe
The Sri Lankan authorities have ordered an investigation into a former commander of the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam…
We don’t know how one could fix a match
Former Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene has hit back at Mahindananda Aluthgamage, the ex-Sri Lanka Sports Minister, who served between…
Comprehensive security sector reform yet to take place?
A report submitted by the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Clément Nyaletsossi…
Every person is entitled to freedom of thought, conscience and religion
The US Department of State 2019, annual Report to Congress on International Religious Freedom – the International Religious Freedom Report…
Criticism on the rise?
Last week, the de facto leader of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), M.A. Sumanthiran, gave an interview to a Sinhala…
Sri Lanka among most vulnerable
The Economist Magazine has ranked Sri Lanka amongst its most vulnerable states that have been worst affected economically by the…
Achieving herd immunity
Christian Drosten, who directs the Institute of Virology at the Charité Hospital in Berlin, was one of those who identified…
Squeezed by foreign lenders
As Sri Lanka battles COVID-19 with its public health expertise and military might, it is gearing up for another imminent…
Laws contain references to vaguely defined offences
As Governments face the formidable challenge of protecting people from COVID-19, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has…