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[…] The post Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Mourning Mala: Remembering Malathi De Alwis (Category: Breaking News)
Photo courtesy of Twitter Malathi de Alwis, friend, mentor, teacher, feminist, anthropologist, birder, foodie and the most amazing cook, passed away on January 21. As we mourn this utterly devastating, untimely loss...
- A Tribute to Malathi de Alwis and Her Work (Category: Breaking News)
- A Tribute to Malathi de Alwis and Her Work (Category: Breaking News)
- A Tribute to Malathi de Alwis and Her Work (Category: Breaking News)
- Our Malathi (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Mourning Mala: Remembering Malathi De Alwis (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Is Ranjan Ramanayake Disqualified? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Scandalizing The Court: A Non-Existing Offence (Category: Breaking News)
- Four Years Prison Term For Contempt Of Court Violates The International Covenant On Civil And Po... (Category: Breaking News)
- Four Years Prison Term For Contempt Of Court Violates The International Covenant On Civil And Po... (Category: Breaking News)
- Four Years Prison Term For Contempt Of Court Violates The International Covenant On Civil And Po... (Category: Breaking News)
The UN should not be taking the side of the bullies, nor should they be adding to the confusion and speculation by failing to renew Lee’s accreditation. As for the UNCA; their role is to stand up for its members, not to expel them and we can see no justification for the continuation of this ...
- Lanka’s pressure, Mathew thrown out of UNCA (Category: Breaking News)
- As Sri Lanka Minister Blocks 300 UN Staff, UN Nambiar Assured by Kohona (Category: Breaking News)
- As Sri Lanka Burns Him in Effigy, UN Ban Has No Comment, Pillay Says Speak to Gov't (Category: Breaking News)
- UNCA Suspends Lee (Category: Breaking News)
“If we can’t think for ourselves, if we are unwilling to question authority, then we’re just putty in the hands of those in power”. – Carl Sagan (The Demon-Haunted World) By Tisaranee Gunasekara Gen. Fonseka was freed not because President Rajapaksa experienced a sudden democratic-epiphany or embraced the ‘quality of mercy’. The politico-electorally disabling nature ...
- Fonseka 'ready to talk' with UN panel (Category: Breaking News)
- In consolidating power, President Rajapaksa risks squandering one of his country's greatest adva... (Category: Breaking News)
- 'Declare' Fonseka president - petition (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka threatens to execute General Sarath Fonseka (Category: Breaking News)
The government continued to arbitrarily detain, torture or ill-treat people and subject people to enforced disappearance. It failed to address most instances of impunity for violations of human rights and humanitarian law. The government rejected repeated allegations of war crimes committed by both sides of the conflict that ended in 2009, prompting Amnesty International to ...
- UN Studying LLRC Report (Category: Breaking News)
- Investigate visiting Sri Lankan President - U.S. Urged by Amnesty Int'l (Category: Breaking News)
- Amnesty demands Sri Lanka war crimes probe (Category: Breaking News)
- The Need to Address Persistent Impunity for Violations and Abuses of International Human Rights ... (Category: Breaking News)
By Tisaranee Gunasekara “Kill them out of the way… And let me hear their everlasting grunts and whines no more!” Shelley (Œdipus Tyrannus or Swellfoot the Tyrant) Abductions in the South continue unabated, even as the Resolution on Sri Lanka awaits a vote in Geneva. Can there be a more damning measure of Rajapaksa-addiction to ...
- Crime And Punishment, In Rajapaksa Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Criminal Governance (Category: Breaking News)
- SLMC to decide on support to govt. re NE merger (Category: Breaking News)
- Drug addicts rob wealthy homes in Mt. Lavinia (Category: Breaking News)
“…countries that won a war but ‘lost the peace’: gratuitously wasting the opportunities afforded them by their victory” Tony Judt (Reappraisals) By Tisaranee Gunasekara Creating incredible illusions to conceal insupportable realities is the Rajapaksa way. In this dystopian world, zero equals 8,000+; when prices go up, inflation comes down and people just love political deprivation ...
- Pro-Tiger elements in the Tamil diaspora are helping Rajapaksas stay in power (Category: Breaking News)
- The Darusman (UN) Report was inevitable due to colossal failure by the Rajapaksas (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajapaksas using Sinhala spremacism to win Southern consent for anti-democratic constitutional r... (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajapaksa treatment of Fonseka is like Prabhakaran tratment of Mahathaya (Category: Breaking News)
Gandhi dressed to be accepted by the poorest person in India, advocating the use of homespun cloth (khadi). He and his followers adopted the practice of weaving their own cloth. President of the United States Barack Obama in an address to a Joint Session of the Parliament of India said that:”I am mindful that I ...
- NGOs Call on U.S. to Establish International Accountability Mechanism on Sri Lanka at UN Human R... (Category: Breaking News)
- Children of the 1977 Free Market Economy and their world without vision (Category: Breaking News)
- US Judge dismisses case against Rajapakse but warns no way a reflection on the merits (Category: Breaking News)
- US grants immunity to President Rajapakse in War Crimes case (Category: Breaking News)
Further repression of media, civil society, minorities (New York) – The Sri Lankan government in the past year failed to advance justice and accountability for the victims of the country’s 26-year-long civil conflict, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2012. While Sri Lanka’s war-ravaged north and east became more open, the government deepened repression of basic f...
- Sri Lanka: No Progress on Justice – HRW report (Category: Breaking News)
- International Crisis Group statement on LLRC report (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka: No Progress on Justice (Category: Breaking News)
- Basic rights violated in Sri Lanka: Rights group (Category: Breaking News)
New York 23 January 2012:The Sri Lankan government in the past year failed to advance justice and accountability for the victims of the country’s 26-year-long civil conflict, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2012. While Sri Lanka’s war-ravaged north and east became more open, the government deepened repression of basic freedoms throughout ...
- Basic rights violated in Sri Lanka: Rights group (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka: No Progress on Justice, Human Rights Watch (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka: No Progress on Justice – HRW report (Category: Breaking News)
- Secretary-General Should Use Findings to Press for Justice - HRW (Category: Breaking News)
By Kusal Perera “Sometimes, all you have is nonsense to deal with and your anger, with which to do so”. - Anonymous “Happy New Year” said everyone to everyone else, after the year had faded off with bursting fire crackers last night. If all wishes made in good faith for a better New Year in ...
- Sri Lankan elections: A new dimension (Category: Business)
- Three parties de-registered (Category: Breaking News)
- Until The ‘South’ Learns What Democratic Rule Is… (Category: Breaking News)
- REGISTRATION OF THREE PARTIES SUSPENDED (Category: Breaking News)
By Imaad Majeed The government has taken extra measures to impose restrictions on the local media by blocking news websites alleged to have engaged in “character assassination” and “invasion of privacy”. Secretary for Ministry of Media and Information, W. B. Ganegala said, “the ministry will introduce a code of ethics and media guidelines.” Mudslinging and ...
- Court allows Media Ministry to continue news websites registration (Category: Business)
- Civil society outraged over moves to censor all websites carrying news on Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Supreme Court snubs FR petition on interference of access to websites (Category: Business)
- Media Ministry Monitoring More Websites (Category: Breaking News)
The Rajapaksa brothers, Basil and Gotabhaya, have both shown a keen sense of likened thinking with regard to the conduct of the war in Sri Lanka. In a leaked US embassy cable Basil Rajapaksa is quoted as having told members of the US Senate Foreign Relations that, ‘I’m not saying we’re clean; we could not ...
- US Raises Concerns About SL’s HR Record (Category: Breaking News)
- Do not put SL’s wellbeing in peril, Prof. Peiris asserts in Paris (Category: Business)
- SL not done enough says US (Category: Breaking News)
- Relevance of Non-alignment or ‘dynamic neutrality’ to SL’s foreign policy (Category: Breaking News)
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has written an open letter to President Mahinda Rajapaksa urging him to take whatever measures are necessary to protect Frederica Jansz, the editor of The Sunday Leader, and to ensure that those responsible for last week’s death threats against her are arrested. The threatening letter Jansz received on 27 October was ...
- Letter From Frederica To Editors Guild (Category: Breaking News)
- Honouring Rajapaksa: An Open Letter To The UN Resident Coordinator (Category: Breaking News)
- Honouring Rajapaksa: An Open Letter To The UN Resident Coordinator (Category: Breaking News)
- Honouring Rajapaksa: An Open Letter To The UN Resident Coordinator (Category: Breaking News)
Gives comprehensive address highlighting issues of developing countries Shoots down discriminatory practices by developed countries Outlines post-war development, reiterates stance against terrorism Backs Palestine, Cuba and Africa By Nisthar Cassim in New York In his much-anticipated address to the UN, President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday took a comprehensive local, regional and world view, with...
- CB releases full details on new laws to curb terrorism funding and money laundering (Category: Business)
- LTTE was engaged in the drug trade to finance itself – Kohona (Category: Business)
- Lankan envoy in US hosts National Press Club’s Intl. Correspondents (Category: Business)
The report of the UN Advisory Panel was finally released and the government moved into top gear to get the country behind the regime. The government informed the state media of a press conference on Thursday last week. The Ambassador for Russia in Sri Lanka was agreeable to grant an interview against the Ban panel ...
- US – India Alliance Puts Pressure On Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- The "Glass House gang of four" behind the Moon move to appoint A UN Panel on Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Mahinda’s Problems And Ranil’s Woes…. (Category: Breaking News)
- Mahinda Keeps Mum On General’s Sentence At Cabinet Meeting (Category: Breaking News)
by Prof Michael Roberts Many Sri Lankan fans expected the cricket team to win the World Cup and even stocked up with firecrackers to mark the celebratory moment. The disappointment has been commensurate with this high expectation. It has generated...
- Sri Lanka at World Cup bringing together two communities long divided along ethnic lines (Category: Breaking News)
- President Rajapaksa offers prayers at Tirumala (Category: Breaking News)
- Populist Politics and the Sooriyawewa & Premadasa Stadiums (Category: Breaking News)
- 'Government officials unable to recall President Rajapaksa advising the country's cricket team o... (Category: Breaking News)
The BBC Sinhala Service, in asking for comments on the 2010 US Report on Human Rights in Sri Lanka, gave me little notice, and suggested I could just glance through the synopsis with which the report began. As it happened, I was able to look through some of the rest, which was good, because I ...
- Make preparations count (Category: Business)
- Wanting in credibility (Category: Breaking News)
- Improprieties in the Sri Lanka section of US State Dept report (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt. readies for next UN session with national plan for human rights (Category: Business)
by Amarnath Amarasingam The recent revelation that members of the federal and provincial Conservative Party have been getting into bed with former members of the World Tamil Movement (WTM), banned as a terrorist organization in Canada since 2008, was not...
- Tigers not a factor any more says Canadian Tamil Activist (Category: Breaking News)
- Group of Canadian parliamentarians schedule to visit SriLanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Canadian PM under attack over candidates alleged Tamil Tiger links (Category: Breaking News)
- Mr Harper should be 'ashamed' of MV Sun Sea ad and Tamil refugees - Bob Rae (Category: Breaking News)
by Anthony Reinhart Tories trying to win support from South Asians in Ontario have opened the door to remnants of a Tamil Tiger front group the federal Conservatives themselves banned in 2008. The unlikely association, forged behind a curtain of...
- Conservative Party gets entangled in post May 2009 Tamil diaspora politics in Ontario (Category: Breaking News)
- Harper brushes off questions over Tamil candidate Paranchothy who praised terrorist group LTTE (Category: Breaking News)
- Lankan origin candidate claims he had no sympathy for terrorists (Category: Breaking News)
- Canada: More furore over personalised stamps bearing Tamil Tiger symbols (Category: Breaking News)
When voters went to the polls two years ago, Nikki Haley was a South Carolina state representative mostly known for backing Gov. Mark Sanford's vetoes and stepping on toes in a push to force lawmakers to record every one of their votes.Alvin Greene was toiling away in the Army, an anonymous grunt
- NSW fugitives held in South Australia (Category: South Australia)
- Young man drowns swimming at beach (Category: AU, New South Wales)
- How do you cycle to the South Pole? (Category: Technology)
- Northern-ish Lights (Category: Technology)
by Tisaranee Gunasekara Basil Rajapaksa is unabashed in claiming that in Sri Lanka an era of ‘ruler kings’ has begun. Western ideas of transparency, he claims, along with limits of presidential power and accountability, are not relevant to ‘Asian Culture’.”...
- Stop intimidating judiciary,end undermining democracy,hold elections (Category: Breaking News)
- Compliance with Rajapaksas is the only way to prosper in the Rajapaksa - Land (Category: Breaking News)
- DNA to inundate President with messages for SFs release (Category: Breaking News)
- A True Democratic Leadership (Category: Breaking News)
THAT the second testing of his urine sample might clear Manju Wanniarachchi of any wrongdoing and so restore his Commonwealth Games gold medal is pretty much a hope that rides on the wings of a prayer. The truth though is, hardly ever does the result of a second examination (for banned substance in the system ...
- Manju makes Dian’s dream come true (Category: Breaking News)
- Kicking A Fallen Boxer Is No Clean Up Job (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka wins historic Gold (Category: Breaking News)
- Delayed AGM Leaves New ABA With A Heavy Backlog (Category: Breaking News)
NOT that our little world of sport was at peace with itself last week and so free of issues that might warrant critical scrutiny. If there was such bliss for seven straight days, then, it must’ve been in some other land; over here (where, as the popular joke says, God deems it unnecessary to station ...
- The Ring Is A Women’s World (Category: Breaking News)
- Indo-Lanka Dual Next Week (Category: Breaking News)
- Anusha Hits Road To London (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan boxer Nilmini Jayasinghe targets 2012 Olympics (Category: Breaking News)
By Tisaranee Gunasekara “Today there was total confusion in Sri Rajapaksistan (formerly Sri Lanka) when thousands and thousands of people changed their name to “Rajapaksa” to get into Parliament or even get a job… Hospital authorities report that all new...
- Sri Lanka debates on constitutional reforms (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka parliament approves constitutional reforms with two-third majority (Category: Breaking News)
- UNP, JVP scared to face another Presidential Poll - CP Governor (Category: Breaking News)
- The 18th Amendment and the reawakening of President Rajapaksa (Category: Breaking News)
By Anushka Gunawardena President Mahinda Rajapaksa at a meeting with editors and publishers last Monday, September 7th at Temple Trees, produced a copy of an affidavit claiming to be from the Samurdhi officer where he had said he had willingly asked to be tied to a tree, based on Silva having threatened to do so if ...
- Mervyn testifies (Category: Breaking News)
- Silva’s Disciplinary Inquiry Continues (Category: Breaking News)
- Committee concludes probe on Mervin, final report next week (Category: Breaking News)
- Mervin not guilty, decides committee (Category: Breaking News)
By a special correspondent Exclusive to BBC Sinhala service The alert and watchful eyes of weary soldiers scanned every vehicle passing through the checkpoints. Broken, torn buildings tower over the tiny UNHCR tents on the gardens and court yards. Hanging...
- Tamil anxiety over Army camps changing demography in N-E (Category: Breaking News)
- U.K. Tamil Activist "Moved" by Sonia Gandhi's Gesture (Category: Breaking News)
- Police beefs up security (Category: Breaking News)
- Police beefs up security (Category: Breaking News)
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