Caroon by Avantha Artigala.
Militarisation of civilian space began during the first Rajapaksa regime. Yet, it didn’t cause public concern, except amongst certain civil society...
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) yesterday informed Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court that it had obtained a detention order from the Defence Ministry to interrogate...
Image: MSP Monica Lennon (second left) with campaigners against period poverty outside Scotland's Parliament in February.
By Rob Picheta and Ivana Kottasová, CNN.
London (CNN). Scotland has become...
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This infographic highlights progress and remaining challenges for women in a range of areas, from politics, to literacy, to wages and...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair
BY PATRICK COCKBURN.
President Trump may be losing the election, but he is not the aberration in the history of America...
(Dubai: Image courtesy of KARIM SAHIB / AFP / Getty Images)
By ISABEL DEBRE.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates announced on...
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SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chileans poured into the country’s main squares on Sunday night after voters gave a ringing endorsement to a plan...
Image: Pham Doan Trang, a Vietnamese dissident, was arrested on charges of making and disseminating propaganda against the Vietnamese state.(Credit-Thinh Nguyen)
By Richard C. Paddock.
BANGKOK...
Image: South Korean Trade Minister Yoo Myung-hee and Nigeria's former foreign and finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala are the finalists to lead the WTO.
The World...
(HRW) A cross-regional group of 39 United Nations member countries issued a stinging public rebuke today of the Chinese government’s widespread human rights violations...
The undersigned civil society organisations congratulate and welcome Irene Khan to her new role as Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the...
GENEVA (26 June 2020) – UN independent experts have repeatedly communicated with the Government of the People’s Republic of China their alarm regarding the...
Image: In March 2017 Ai Weiwei launched a massive sculpture featuring 70 metre long boat with 258 refugees (www.creativeboom.com)
An overview of the definition of refugee...
Image: A group of Muslim women from Hambantota: "We have lived here for generations".
The much anticipated, debated, and controversial presidential election is now just...
Image: Sudanese celebrate after officials said the military had forced longtime autocratic President Omar al-Bashir to step down after 30 years in power in...
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REMARKS BY THE SECRETARY-GENERAL ON THE OCCASION OF THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GENEVA ASSOCIATION OF UNITED NATIONS CORRESPONDENTS.
(25 February 2019/...
(The Independent) Teenager Greta Thunberg’s grassroots environmentalist activism is sweeping across the world, igniting a movement led by young people urging their governments to combat...
13 Nov 2018/ BY INDEX ON CENSORSHIP
Dear Mark Zuckerberg:
What do the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a Danish member of parliament, and a news anchor from the Philippines have...
Recently concluded 39th session of the UNHRC adopted the resolution A_HRC_39_L.22 on Myanmar which calls decides to prepare files in order to facilitate and expedite fair...
Since 2012, several landmark resolutions have been approved by various UN bodies on the issue of the safety of journalists. IFEX's 5-minute guide explains...
Image: Navy base, Trincomalee.
The progress of ongoing criminal investigations into the grisly killing of several Tamil youths following a racket of abduction for ransom,...
Cartoon by @awanthaartigala.
(24 June 2018 The Island)
It is the time for withdrawals in Trump’s America. It is the time of recusals in Sri Lanka. It...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is filling government with ex-top brass in the name of 'professionalizing' island-nation's politics.
by Salman Rafi Sheikh
Even at the height of the Sri...
Caroon by Avantha Artigala.
Militarisation of civilian space began during the first Rajapaksa regime. Yet, it didn’t cause public concern, except amongst certain civil society...
