Sri Lanka: An agenda for change
By Ram Manikkalingam The social and political uprising is currently stuck. President Gotabaya’s appointment of Ranil Wickremasinghe as Prime Minister (PM) has enabled the President to continue to stay in office, while shifting responsibility and pressure onto the new PM. Meanwhile, the economic crisis is intensifying, as Sri Lanka has run out of money to [...]
Marking official languages week amidst the economic crisis
By Malraji Wanniarachchi In May 2019, the Sri Lankan Government at the time declared July 1 as Official Languages Day, and the week from July 1-5 as Official Languages Week of Sri Lanka. In the subsequent years, the Official Languages Week was commemorated around the island with a variety of uniquely themed events and activities [...]
Don’t send mothers of the very young abroad: Paediatricians
The Sri Lanka College of Paediatricians issued the following statement on the Cabinet proposal to allow mothers with children two years and older to seek foreign employment. It is with the greatest concern and dismay that the members of the Council and the Child Protection Committee of the Sri Lanka College of Paediatricians received the [...]
Catholics v. the Constitution
Ian Buruma, Exclusively for the Sunday Times in Sri Lanka According to a Pew Research Centre survey in March of this year, 61% of Americans believe that abortion should be legal in most cases. Even so, the US Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion established in its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. No [...]