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 …

(Courtesy of The Ceylon Today)

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair made an extraordinary confession after 12 years of refusing to apologize for his conduct which has now led to ‘hell’ in Iraq because of the decision made by him …

(Courtesy of The Daily Mirror)

By D.B.S.Jeyaraj

“All changed,changed utterly” – The memorable lines from Irish poet Yeats came true on the morning of July 2nd 2016 for Dr.Indrajit Coomaraswamy after he received a telephone call at 6. 30 am. …

By Gomin Dayasiri,

Former Governors of the Central Bank – Mahendran and Cabraal– must be found guilty or innocent after a fair trial –without leaving the issue in doubt for too long. Yet it has to be proved in court. …

(Courtesy of Ceylon Today)

By Nayantha Wijesundara
The oral update of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Prince Zeid, made on 28th June at the 32nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council carried no surprises for the reader …