CSO Sustainability Index 2017 – Sri Lanka Country Report

    CSO Sustainability Index 2017 – Sri Lanka Country Report
    by |03 January 2019
    The Civil Society Organization Sustainability Index (CSOSI) assesses the sustainability of the CSO sector across several countries in different regions around the world. Since its inception in 1997, it has expanded from covering 18 countries in the Europe and Eurasia...
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    CSO Sustainability Index 2017 – Asia Report
    by |20 December 2018
    The Civil Society Organization Sustainability Index (CSOSI) assesses the sustainability of the CSO sector across several countries in different regions around the world. Since its inception in 1997, it has expanded from covering 18 countries in the Europe and Eurasia...
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    ‘If changes are made in Committee Stage in Parliament, there will be no room to legally challenge draconian sections of the new legislation’ – says Gehan Gunatilleke
    by |18 September 2018|Verité in the News
    Taken from Sunday Observer BY A STAFF REPORTER The Counter Terrorism Bill approved by cabinet last week is a major improvement on the existing Prevention of Terrorism Act, but the bill only has conditional cabinet approval and could be subject...
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    The Linguistics of Hate Speech in Social Media
    by |29 August 2018
    1915 featured the most widespread and destructive violence against Muslims in Sri Lanka to date. In this seminar, .....
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    Enforced disappearance in Sri Lanka: Past, present and future
    by |27 August 2018|Interviews & Articles
    Family members of the disappeared in a protest march - File picture Few countries in the world can rival Sri Lanka’s legacy on enforced disappearance. Simply defined, an ‘enforced disappearance’ takes place when an agent of the state takes a...
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    Hindu group protests against Muslim teachers wearing abaya
    by |25 July 2018|Verité in the News
    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
    by |25 July 2018|Interviews & Articles
    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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    Justice & Reconciliation
    by |30 May 2018
    Justice and Reconciliation are two key thematic areas explored by Verité’s legal research practice. Previous research includes an assessment of Sri Lanka’s justice system for children and the other existing justice systems and its institutions. Verité has also analysed the...
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    Extremism Gains Ground In Sri Lanka
    by |20 May 2018|Verité in the News
    The logjam is creating ground for extremist thinking on both sides of the ethnic divide  COLOMBO: Nine years after the war between the Sri Lankan armed forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) ended in May 2009, reconciliation...
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    Logjam in ethnic reconciliation spurs extremism in Sri Lanka
    by |20 May 2018|Verité in the News
    Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 20: Nine years after the war between the Sri Lankan armed forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) ended in May 2009, reconciliation between Sri Lanka’s majority Sinhalese and minority Tamils still appears to...
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