Sri Lanka is facing a crucial presidential election on January 8. Dr Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu, the Executive Director of Centre for Policy Alternative (CPA), a...
Sri Lanka prepares for what could be the closest presidential contest in its history.
THE plan seemed such a simple one. Mahinda Rajapaksa called an...
by Dr Lionel Bopage,
President, Australian Advocacy for Good Governance in Sri Lanka.
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Palais des Nations, CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Dear...
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has given careful consideration to the positions and pronouncements of the two main candidates at the upcoming Presidential election...
Presidential Election 2015: Media Communique 8 /by Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV).
29th December, Attack on ‘Yowun Parapura’ street concert in Gokarella, Kurunegala District
CMEV...
Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma has reiterated that ''the people of Sri Lanka should be able to freely exercise their franchise, in an enabling environment marked...
29 December 2014 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has conveyed his “strong expectation” that the Government of Sri Lanka will ensure “the peaceful...
Sri Lanka’s major Tamil political party, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) is likely to support the common opposition candidate Maithripala Sirisena and its decision...
We being Australians of Sri Lankan origin,concerned about democracy, good governance and reconciliation in Sri Lanka, call upon all Sri Lankans to vote at...
Some young artistes were attacked by political goons while they were conducting a campaign in support of presidential candidate Maithripala Sirisena at Kumbukgate in...
by Jayadeva Uyangoda-
Less than two weeks more to the Presidential election, scheduled for January 08, 2015, the political temperature of the country is rising...
by Ahilan Kadirgamar-
Sri Lanka is facing a crucial election, possibly its most important since 1956 when the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) came to...
Siritunga Jayasuriya-
I returned from my Jaffna and Vanni campaign tour this morning and am obliged to convey the general sentiments of the Tamil people...
Presidential Election 2015: Media Communique 7/by Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV)
27th December, Public Property Misuse in Kantalai, Trincomalee District
CMEV was reported of an...
Human Rights Commission Of Sri Lanka Issued A Directive To All Public Officers Of Sri Lanka On The Presidential Election 2015.
December 26, 2014
A directive...
(Jaffna Tamils lined up for voting, Sep 2012;AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
Interview with Prof. Paul Newman-
Dr. Paul Newman is a Professor of Human Rights at the...
27 December, Colombo, Sri Lanka: Social Indicator, the survey research unit of the Centre for Policy Alternatives conducted an island wide pre election opinion...
Sri Lanka’s Colombo South Container Terminal (CSCT) has been completed by a Chinese contractor without following the quality standards of construction stipulated in the...
Open public defiance has beaten the ‘white van’ culture by Kishali Pinto Jayawardena -
Oscar Wilde’s bitingly satirical remark that ‘high hopes were once formed...
On the day governing party goons attacked a opposition group including former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga the police had instructed the Out Patient Department...
(Ex-LTTE members touring south] Image- MoD)
The occupying military of genocidal Sri Lanka has forced around 4,000 former members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil...
Around 8.30 PM today (25th) an armed gang has arrived at the Member of Parliament Mangala Samaraweera’s office in Hakmanaa, Matara district and destroyed...
An armed group has attacked a Common Candidate’s office in Eravur in the Battticaloa district.
Over twenty armed men arrived at the office at 12:30am...
Colombo Additional Magistrate Mrs. Rajindra Jayasuriya has reprimanded the youth who encouraged fellow citizens to honk vehicle horns in protest of stopping vehicles in...
Proponents of militarisation claim the Sri Lanka military is more efficient, competent & uses public resources more prudently than SL public service. Findings of...
