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Published in: Home: AnalysisSri Lanka: why the Philippines offers a warning for what might come nextCould the disgraced Rajapaksas return to power, like the Marcos family has in the Philippines?
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Published in: Home: FeatureSri Lanka’s protesters are demanding change. Here’s whySri Lanka’s president Gotabaya Rajapaksa has fled the country after weeks of protests. Now Sri Lankans want action – and fast
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Published in: Home: ExplainerTime is running out to save Sri Lanka from total economic collapseOnce hailed as South Asia’s ‘success story’, the island nation has faced months of escalating violent unrest
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Published in: Migrant FuturesSri Lanka’s returning migrants need more than plane tickets and quarantinesBringing migrants home during the pandemic is not only a health concern but a social and economic one as well.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Reimagining victory by winning the peaceIf we want to see societies win the peace we need a concept of victory that is about justice and reconciliation,...
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Published in: HomeThe Easter bombings in Sri Lanka – a reflection one year afterWhat we owe the victims of Easter 2019 is an end to elitist power politics and a governance that is rooted in the...
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Published in: Countering the Radical Right(C)overt Islamophobia: the aftermath of the Sri Lanka Easter attacksSri Lanka’s Muslim community is suffering from continuous Islamophobia on two fronts.
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Published in: ourEconomyMicrofinance has been a nightmare for the global south. Sri Lanka shows that there is an alternativeWomen’s groups and the co-operative movement are leading the way out of the debt trap.
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Published in: HomeThe democracy deficit in the UK and in Sri Lanka: a tale of two crisesAs a Sri Lankan citizen living in the UK, the author finds himself in the eye of the two political storms tearing...
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Published in: Home‘Handicapped sovereignty’: escalating costs of Sri Lanka’s post-war development visionAs capital elbows its way in and remakes the world according to its own designs, the need to democratise this polity...
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Published in: HomeSri Lanka local elections: the return of RajapaksaAfter his recent win, Mahinda Rajapaksa urged his voters not to attack the losing side, saying: “No matter what they...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?EU approval of Sri Lankan labour standards whitewashes abuseWorkers are not poor and disadvantaged because they have been left behind. They are poor because they are being robbed.
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Published in: 50.50After Everest: can mountaineering tackle gender myths in Sri Lanka?Mountaineering is an elite sport, but becoming the first Sri Lankan to summit Everest has given me a rare public...
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Published in: HomeBadly-timed, ill-conceived and fraudulent, yet Turkey’s opposition could be the one to gain from Erdoğan’s presidential referendumThe Turkish political system will have to reach a new level of democratic maturity, to challenge Erdoğan’s monopoly...
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Published in: 50.50Investigating Sri Lanka’s ‘nude’ cultureLearning from schoolgirls and boys about blackmail, ‘nudes’ and cyber exploitation in Sri Lanka.
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Published in: 50.50Singleness and the world of 'not belonging'The repertoires about single women are unequivocal: without a husband and children, single women signify ‘lack’ -...
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Published in: 50.50Teaching gender inequality in Sri LankaSri Lanka has been lauded for equal access to education for girls and boys, but textbooks and traditions continue to...
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Published in: 50.50The fraught road to justice: Sri Lankan victims of sexual violenceAs more women testify about their experience of sexual violence in Sri Lanka the path to redress does not become...
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Published in: 50.50Justice and accountability for war related sexual violence in Sri LankaAs the testimonies of survivors of sexual violence in Sri Lanka’s long war enter the public domain and the...
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Published in: 50.50Women beedi rollers and necrocapitalism in Sri LankaWomen in one village in the Jaffna district of northern Sri Lanka have been rolling beedi with their bare hands for...
