human rights

Sri Lanka’s Hill Country Tamils marginalized despite ending statelessness: report
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Taken from - economynext Sri Lanka’s ‘Hill Country Tamils’, who for generations produced its main agricultural export, Ceylon tea, remains marginalised despite gaining formal citizenship requring remedies, a new study said. ” . . . the mere granting of ‘formal...
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කුට්ඨනය: බරපතල ලෙස නොදකින බරපතල අපරාදයක්
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පළවූයේ - රැස සම්පාදනය -  නීතීඥ සුපුන් ජයවර්ධන පහත සිදුවීම් ගැන මොහොතක් සිතන්න. මෙම  සිදුවීම් ත්‍රිත්වය  සලකා බලන විට කුමාරන්, කමල් සහ ජමීලා විවිධ අපරාදවලට වෙන වෙනම  ගොදුරු වී ඇති බව පැහැදිලි ය. නමුත් ඔවුන් තිදෙනාම ගොදුරු වූ තවත් අපරාදයක්...
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Hindu group protests against Muslim teachers wearing abaya
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Protesters gathered outside the school to demand Muslim teachers stop wearing the abaya, a cloak worn by some women [Courtesy of M. I. M. Ifas] When a new staff member wore the robe to a school in Sri Lanka's northeast,...
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The case against anti-terrorism laws
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Jeyakumari Balendran, an activist campaigning for the whereabouts of missing persons in Sri Lanka, was detained by officers of the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) in March 2014. Photo: Vikalpa | Groundviews | Maatram | CPA / Flickr Nearly a decade after...
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