By Senaka Weeraratna

http://www.vgweb.org/unethicalconversion/port_rep.htm

The Portuguese while pursuing a policy of destruction and plunder of Buddhist Temples held out various inducements for Buddhists to convert to Christianity. Conversion meant a sure means of exemption from taxes due to the …

(Courtesy of The Island)

By Neville Ladduwahetty

Sri Lanka is currently engaged in the process of replacing the existing executive presidential system with a Parliamentary system of government. The compulsion for the change is primarily because executive presidential systems are …

By Malinda Seneviratne –

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 …

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 …

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 …