2025 - Groundviews
6 days ago · In mid-November last year the National People’s Power (NPP) centre left coalition won a landslide victory in Sri Lanka’s parliamentary election after its leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake was voted president in September.…
The JVP and Ethnic Relations: Walking a Tightrope to 2024 (Part 3)
Sep 18, 2024 · Photo courtesy of JVP. As Sri Lanka approaches the 2024 presidential election, the NPP is positioning itself as a major contender. In the previous articles (part 1 and part 2), we explored the JVP’s historical trajectory and its evolving stance on ethnic relations.This third analysis looks at the NPP’s current manifesto, “A thriving nation, A beautiful life”.
SL Barometer Explores Reconciliation Trends and Challenges
Dec 11, 2024 · Photo courtesy of Kumanan The Sri Lanka Barometer (SLB) has published the results of a three year survey on reconciliation examining eight critical dimensions: accountable governance, addressing the past, identity and belonging, trust, justice for all, security and wellbeing, equality and opportunity and active citizenship. The survey provided a comprehensive look at the ongoing reconciliation
Rohingya Refugees in Sri Lanka Seek a Permanent Solution to …
Nov 20, 2024 · Photo courtesy of UNHCR. Hundreds of thousands of terrified Rohingya refugees flooded onto the beaches and paddy fields of southern Bangladesh in August 2017.When the refugees – almost 60 per cent of whom were children – poured across the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh, they related accounts of the unspeakable violence …
SL Faces International Pressure to Set its Human Rights Record …
Dec 10, 2024 · Photo courtesy of Kumanan Today is International Human Rights Day Sri Lanka is wrestling with deep-rooted human rights challenges despite pledges for reform. Accountability, civil liberties and governance issues remain stubbornly unresolved, casting a long shadow over the nation’s future. The ripple effects of the country’s 2022 economic meltdown, fuelled by governance failures and ...
NPP Government and Palestine Day - Groundviews
Nov 29, 2024 · Photo courtesy of HRW. Today is the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People “Global Palestine” has brought together once again numerous segments of humanity in different parts of the world to demonstrate their unflinching support for the people of Palestine whose only crime against “Global Israel” is their resolve to …
The Burden of Expectations - Groundviews
Dec 11, 2024 · Photo courtesy of France 24 Compared to the excesses of the good governance regime and the Gotabaya Rajapaksa raj that followed it, the omissions of this government seem trivial and innocent. The NPP is now two months in office and whether we like it or not, the excitement of those early days is fading away. One
Men Cry Too - Groundviews
Nov 27, 2024 · Photo courtesy of IPS What is patriarchy? According to Wikipedia “Patriarchy is a social system in which men typically hold authority and responsibility. In anthropology, it refers to a family or clan structure where the father or eldest male holds supremacy within the family, while in feminist theory, it encompasses a broader social structure where
11/25/2024 - Groundviews
Nov 25, 2024 · After Israel’s genocidal rampage in Gaza since October 7, 2023, which has killed nearly 44,000 “human animals” and “cockroaches” in the words of Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister Yoav Gallant…
12/13/2024 - Groundviews
Dec 13, 2024 · According to the Institute for Health Policy’s (IHP) SLOTS polling conducted in November, 25% of Sri Lankan adults believed the country was heading in the right direction while 16% expressed uncertainty about…