People of the northern province are not interested in federalism, says Chairman, Constitutional Reforms Committee, Lal Wijenayake.

Addressing the media yesterday at Visumpaya’ Wijenayake said according to a study his outfit had conducted, it was only the northern politicians …

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by Hamid Dabashi

Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

Who elected Tony Blair as the prime minister of the United Kingdom for more than a decade (1997-2007)? Did Iraqis vote …

Natasha Gooneratne,

External Affairs Minister, Mangala Samaraweera in ‘media hug’ with Nisha Biswal (US Asst Sec-of-State) and Tom Malinowski (Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labour)

The paper argues that strong US intervention in Sri Lanka …

The Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government is now initiating Ram diplomacy in the land of Ravana, following the sanction of a multi-crore project promoting the mythological significance of Ramayana.

In a recent move to develop infrastructure at …

Exactly one month ago, i.e. on the 16th of June 2016, the High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein offering a global update at the 32nd session of the Human Rights Council made a dire observation.  He said …

By Malinda Seneviratne

Had he lived, this man would be approaching his fiftieth birthday.  Ordained at an early age, he took the name “Mahiyangane Dhammajothi Thero”.  He was not yet 21 when he survived a brutal terrorist attack.  He was …

BY N. S. VENKATARAMAN 

Presenting an oral update on Sri Lanka at the 32nd session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), nine months after a consensus resolution was adopted on reconciliation and accountability, the United Nations High Commissioner for …

by Shamindra Ferdinando

The National Joint Committee (NJC) yesterday alleged that the Missing Persons (OMP) Bill would prevent revealing the identities of those who had been categorised as missing but found alive, and investigating them. Therefore, a major amendment to …

The High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Al Hussein, has submitted his report to the UNHRC in Geneva on the 29th June 2016. Jehan Perera, in his article in The Island of 5th June , has endorsed the report fully …