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The site uses a range of genres and media to highlight alternative perspectives on governance, human rights, the arts and literature, peace-building and other issues.

Between April and June 2025, the report identifies 66 TikTok profiles linked to Sri Lankan political entities that appea...
28/05/2026

Between April and June 2025, the report identifies 66 TikTok profiles linked to Sri Lankan political entities that appeared official but were not. Unlike parody or fan pages, these murky accounts carried no disclaimer. They used party logos, near-identical usernames and TikTok’s own editing tools, native fonts, background music and emojis to pass as the real thing. Some showed signs of coordination: multiple accounts with usernames following near-identical patterns, suggesting a single operator behind them.

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ILO conventions define forced labour as work “extracted under the menace of any penalty” where the worker “has not offer...
28/05/2026

ILO conventions define forced labour as work “extracted under the menace of any penalty” where the worker “has not offered himself voluntarily”. The ILO identifies specific indicators of forced labour, including abuse of vulnerability, intimidation and threats, physical and s*xual violence, debt bo***ge, restriction of movement, and abusive working and living conditions, all of which were documented in the experiences of Malaiyaha Tamil workers during the research.

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The ease with which an entire community’s grief can occupy the heart of London and still go unseen is perhaps the most h...
27/05/2026

The ease with which an entire community’s grief can occupy the heart of London and still go unseen is perhaps the most honest summary of what Mullivaikkal Remembrance Day is really about. The Tamil community does not gather here each May because it believes the world is listening. It gathers because it has learned, across 17 years and across the distances of exile, that the act of remembering is itself a form of resistance.

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26/05/2026

A humanitarian activist, medic, forensic psychologist, criminologist, and mental health practitioner, she is a 39-year-old mother of two who made headlines after participating in the international Global Sumud Flotilla mission to Gaza. She was detained by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in international waters and has since safely returned to Sri Lanka.

Sameera speaks about the many atrocities she and her fellow activists faced at the hands of Israeli authorities during her detention.

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Sri Lanka’s climate future cannot be understood separately from the historical labour systems that continue to shape vul...
26/05/2026

Sri Lanka’s climate future cannot be understood separately from the historical labour systems that continue to shape vulnerability today. Colonial economies organised land and labour around extraction. Many of the structures created during that period – dependency on climate-sensitive industries, concentrated labour communities, limited mobility and uneven protections – continue to influence how risk is distributed across society.

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The silence of the chief prelates is in a sense suitable, for what exists in Sri Lanka today is not quite the Sasana of ...
24/05/2026

The silence of the chief prelates is in a sense suitable, for what exists in Sri Lanka today is not quite the Sasana of the Buddha. It’s more the Sasana of monk Mahanama who, in total violation of the Buddha’s teaching, justified the killing of millions for the protection of Buddhism in his obviously apocryphal story about King Dutugemunu’s conscience. It is also the Sasana of King Kirti Sri Rajasinghe who, in total violation of the Buddha’s teaching, introduced caste into monkhood. Will it also become the Sasana of Pallegama Hemaratana where clerical s*x is permitted, including non-consensual and child s*x?

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The reason for the rise of new anti-semitism should be looked at within the context of a growing far right political mov...
22/05/2026

The reason for the rise of new anti-semitism should be looked at within the context of a growing far right political movement throughout Global North. One of the key elements of the campaign agenda of this politics is its anti-immigration policy and particularly against the immigration of Muslims and spread of Islam.

Thus, there is growing Islamophobia in the Western world and it is to exploit this phobia by linking anti-Zionists and pro-Palestine protesters with Muslims and Islam that new anti-semitic campaigners are trying to win the sympathy of Western masses towards Israel’s genocide in Gaza and Dahiya in south Lebanon.

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Successive governments have repeatedly promised reconciliation, equality, constitutional reform and meaningful power sha...
21/05/2026

Successive governments have repeatedly promised reconciliation, equality, constitutional reform and meaningful power sharing. Yet many Tamils continue to believe that genuine implementation has remained limited. Even today meaningful devolution remains incomplete, constitutional reform remains unresolved, militarisation concerns continue in parts of the North and East and trust between communities remains fragile.

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Picture credits: Noopura Liyanage

Despite the inescapable religious branding we receive at birth without our consent, our feelings, thoughts and actions a...
20/05/2026

Despite the inescapable religious branding we receive at birth without our consent, our feelings, thoughts and actions are largely shaped by the complex network of social forces and circumstances we are situated in life from time to time. As a rule, we are spurred by ambitions, profits, competition, wealth, glamour and social climbing more than we are by those religious do’s and don’ts we repeat mechanically.

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Jeyaraj leaves behind an irreplaceable archive. He also leaves behind, for those of us who came after him, an example. I...
20/05/2026

Jeyaraj leaves behind an irreplaceable archive. He also leaves behind, for those of us who came after him, an example. It is possible to love one’s community and still tell the truth about it. Moral courage is not a betrayal of solidarity but its highest expression. The label of traitor, so freely applied to those who insist on honesty, says everything about those who apply it and nothing about those to whom it is applied.

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