By Saurav Jung Thapa.
Efforts to decriminalize consensual same-sex sexual activity in Sri Lanka, an island state off the southern coast of India, appear to...
Recent decision of the government not to proceed with legal reform that decriminalizes homosexuality as both disappointing and a setback to a culture of...
Image: Is Sirisena a lair?
Health Minister Dr Rajitha Senaratne, apparently contradicting what President Maithripala Sirisena said on Wednesday that he threw away a cabinet paper aimed at...
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Gay rights is in the news again, what with the Cabinet notoriously rejecting a move to decriminalise homosexuality in the country. Social networking...
The Asgiriya Chapter highlighted that groups with diverse gender identities and sexual orientations such as the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and...
( The vote; image by rappler.com)
The U.N. Human Rights Council adopted a resolution against anti-LGBT violence and discrimination at just concluded its 32 session...
US ambassador says move by Organization of Islamic Cooperation represents an ‘epidemic and severely damages the credibility of the UN’
Samantha Power, the US ambassador...
The Daily Mirror interviewed well-renowned Sri Lankan Canadian writer Shyam Selvadurai regarding this concern. He was the first Sri Lankan writer to address issues...
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The European Union (EU) Delegation issues the following press release in agreement with the EU Heads of Mission, Ambassadors of Norway and...
Equal Ground is Sri Lanka's organization seeking human and politial rights for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Questioning community. The organization has...
The far-right Sinhala group, Sinhale, has threatened to attack Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) activists organising a pride event in Colombo next month.
Threatening...
In an unprecedented turn of events, Sri Lankan Police have launched a crackdown on suspected lesbians across the country says Asian Mirror.
According to the...
Though new government offers some hope, say LGBT activists
By Kaitlin Bardswich .
Rosanna Flamer-Caldera, executive director of Equal Ground in Sri Lanka, says the LGBT-rights...
The Human Rights Council resolution is a significant moment for global LGBTI movements, and for people around the world who have worked tirelessly for...
76 countries criminalize homosexuality-
Progress at UN incremental-
Activists should focus on violence aspect-
Mounting research exposes harsh realities-
(IRIN) - In recent years, the world has seen...
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: The issue of enforced disappearances has never been properly investigated in Sri Lanka.
President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa is to appoint a new Commission of Inquiry...