It is a fool’s errand to make-believe that the UN Human Rights Council Resolution titled, “Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka”, and adopted last week would help promoting human rights in the country.

Among many national priorities discussed today, subject of Higher Education and Universities is prominent. Irregularities in university intake; lack of facilities, IT skills, English language proficiency and leadership; inadequacy in relevance, quali

Agriculture-based elephant deterrents are both humane and profitable

At the recently concluded 46th session of the Human Rights Council session on Promoting Reconciliation, Accountability and Human Rights in Sri Lanka....

World Water Day is annually celebrated on March 22 every year since its official declaration by United Nations in 1992.

After living in the UK for nine years where I studied engineering, I returned to Sri Lanka and began working as a manager.....

Water is freely available and we gladly give a glass of fresh water to anyone who asks for it. History has taught us that what is freely given is often not fully appreciated.

Easter is identified as the Christian festival par excellence. It celebrates the unique event of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, who is the core and crux of the Christian Religion and Faith.

Water Supply Minister Vasudeva Nanayakkara, a senior left-wing politician serving in the present government,

The Governments of Sri Lanka have in the past taken decisions which have affected the minority communities. One such decision was the ‘Sinhala Only Act’....

“Britain will not be able to have its own way in the UNHRC (United Nations Human Rights Council) as there are other influential countries such as Russia....

The resolution on Sri Lanka passed at the 46th regular session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Tuesday was different......

Sri Lanka is slowly moving into an uncertain future. The reason for this would be that the lawmakers of this country are adamant at promoting their personal views ahead of reality. The present environmental issues that have cropped up underscore that

The adoption of the resolution L.1/Rev.1 by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Tuesday has paved the way for enhanced UN monitoring on Sri Lanka. The UNHRC has adopted resolutions critical of Sri Lanka since 2012, but the latest one

Since the invention of the Small Pox vaccine by Dr. Edward Jenner in 1796, vaccines have saved millions of lives that would have otherwise perished because of infections.

‘The proposal to ban face coverings such as the burqa and niqab, worn by Muslim woman is for national security purposes and not because of any resistance towards Islam religion”

The Daily Mirror in a front page news item today states that according to UN sources, the resolution on Sri Lanka adopted by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Tuesday will take immediate effect with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human

The vote on the resolution against Sri Lanka was adopted on Tuesdays at the 46th Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. That slant was reflected in the vote as well. The resolution was passed 22-11 with 14 abstentions.

I showed this recent online advert to two colleagues. One had no clue about Sri Lanka and did not speak or read Sinhala.

Since the Covid-19 hit our country in March last year, our countrymen and women, irrespective of race, religion, ethnicity, poor or rich have seen our life situation drop.

A day prior to the final match of the Road Safety World Series T20 tournament was played at Raipur in India on Sunday, 14 people were killed and 47 injured in a major road accident at Passara on Monaragala-Badulla main road. The trage

As Sri Lanka is heading towards a showdown in the UN Human Rights Council, which will vote on an adverse resolution on Sri Lanka today, leaders in Colombo are scrambling to avoid a near-certain defeat. On Sunday, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa called

With political interests clouding rights issues, the UNHRC’s record is a mix of the good and the bad

One is reminded of ‘Archie’s Comedy Hour’ and its timeless animated song, “Sugar, Sugar-Honey, Honey…” shown on CBS-TV five decades ago and the famous fables of “Andare”, the celebrated court jester and our childhood hero. In the

Moves to sign free trade deal

On October 26, 1966, the UN proclaimed March 21 as the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination....

Like a great sporting event that comes every other year, Geneva is the venue and the time for Sri Lanka’s post-conflict national sport: hopscotch.

The final report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) into the Easter Sunday attacks was handed over to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa by the Chairman of the Commission, Supreme Court Judge Janak de Silva at the Presidential Secretariat on

When my son was five years old, a fellow camper said to him that he “wasn’t any colour on the rainbow.” According to his little friend, this meant that he was an alien.