Image: Muslim women in Sri Lanka; Credit: Abdul-Halik Azeez.
The Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act (MMDA) which was enacted in 1951 has been perceived primarily as...
Image: Kohilawatte Mosque in Sedawatte after the attack.
Nishthat Idroos.
Another attack, another blatant act of vandalism on a place of worship. Such attacks getting pretty regular...
Rita Izsák-Ndiaye at the side event (c)s.deshapriya.
Ms. Rita Izsák-Ndiaye, the UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues speaking at a side event on 17th March...
Hilmi Ahamed.
President Maithripala Sirisena says that the Muslim IDPs have encroached and destroyed land belonging to the Wilpattu National Park (June 2015).
President Sirisena says...
(Image cortesy of IRIN/Amantha Perera)
By P K Balachandran.
COLOMBO: The Chief Minister of Sri Lanka’s Tamil-majority Northern Province, C.V.Wigneswaran, has refuted an allegation made by...
Issuing a statement as the Chairperson, Office for National Unity and Reconciliation, Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga says that The strictest action must be taken without...
Image: BBS General Secretary Galagoda aththe Gnansara at the Sugathadasa Stadium during a rally to welcome Myanmar's hardline 969 monk Ashin Wirathu.
Radical Buddhist monks...
Image: Group of Muslim female students visiting Galle Fort,July 2016(c)s.deshhapriya
Statement: Let’s come together to support our sisters who have raised their voice for women’s...
Image:Worshippers pray inside the Meera Mosque in Katankuddi, in front of the bullet-riddled wall dating back to an attack that killed over 100 people...
( CM Nazeer Ahamed; Ceylon News Image)
The letter sent by the Chief Minister of the Eastern Province to the president Sirisena and PM Wickremasinghe:
Sampur...
(Grenade attack on Jumma Mosque at Akkaraipattu On 18th November 2005 one of the issues investigated)
I. Introduction
There was an escalation in violence in...
“Dismissed with outright contempt”. This was the common response of Muslims all over to Sri Lanka Muslim Congress Chairman Basheer Segu Dawood’s demand for...
The participation of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, former President Chandrika Kumaratunga and visiting British Minister Hugo Swire at the Thai Pongal celebration in Jaffna...
Industry and Commerce Minister Rishad Bathiudeen lodged a complaint at Cinnamon Garden Police on Saturday against the National Sanga Council for making false accusations...
Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) General Secretary Ven. Galagodaaththe Gnanasara Thera is trying to whip up anti-Muslim sentiments in the country, predicting that Sri Lanka...
Muslims will be an integral part of the truth, justice, reparations and non-recurrence process and Muslims’ grievances and concerns will be a part of...
25 years since the eviction of 75,000 Muslims by the Tamil Tigers from Sri Lanka’s North, the livelihood concerns of this marginalised section remain...
All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama (ACJU) together with other Muslim organisations yesterday strongly condemned those backing the ISIS or any other extremist organisation.
"We do not...
ECONOMYNEXT - Former president Mahinda Rajapaksa who is opposition United People's Freedom Alliance in Kurunegala has dropped minority Tamils and Muslims from his list...
(Rauf Hakeem announcing the decision)
The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) has decided to contest on the UNP ticket at the upcoming general election, SLMC...
(Leaders and representatives of at least 18 minor political parties meeting at the SLMC Head Quarters “Darussalam” on Sunday night. )
Fear minorities will be...
Sri Lanka is once again talking of electoral reform. After experimenting with two types of electoral systems – first-past-the-post (FPP) and proportional representation (PR),...
Public Statement on the Government management of the COVID-19 response
The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis, that is still evolving. Despite early efforts that...
Calling of the President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka to condemn the police action in the strongest possible terms, the attorney representing...
Member of Parliament, TNA MP M. Sumanthran has presented a Private Member's Bill for the enactment of the "Public Health Emergency Act".
One week earlier...
Police, Judicial Officers Should End Arbitrary Arrests, Torture of LGBT People
(Colombo / October 20, 2020) – Sri Lankan authorities have subjected at least seven people...
