The government has indicated its intention to amend the retirement age of judges including judges of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal. This has been causing to a significant debate among ...

In June 2026, Keir Starmer announced that he would resign as UK prime minister, promising to “Do everything I can to ensure an orderly handover of power.” Less than two years earlier, he had led the ...

The NPP’s election manifesto, A Thriving Nation – A Beautiful Life, promised to launch a state-sponsored public awareness campaign on corruption, fraud and bribery with the aim of empowering citizens ...

The principal problem faced by people due to the economic crisis is of rising prices while incomes for many remain unchanged. As a result, the poverty rate has doubled from 2021 from 13% to 25%, ...

UN peacekeeping operations increasingly operate in complex and volatile environments where the use of force extends beyond traditional self-defence to encompass the protection of civilians. In such ...

It has been 36 years since the murder of Richard de Zoysa, an internationally known journalist, artist, political and cultural critic and human rights activist. In the early hours of February 18, 1990 ...

Photo credit Dinuka Liyanawatte / Reuters, from Time magazine. Keynote address delivered on 17th October 2011 at ‘Language and Social Cohesion: 9th International Language and Development Conference, ...

As a country seeking to address the legacy of its past war and armed conflicts, Sri Lanka must roll back the overbroad and dangerous laws that have been repeatedly abused to the detriment of its ...

Over the past two years, Sri Lanka’s legislative landscape has become a testing ground for the future of free expression. Freedom of expression has always been a fragile promise in Sri Lanka’s ...

The trial has begun in the case presently termed as the main case into the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks at a High Court Trial at Bar in Colombo. Several victims testified to the attack and about loss of ...

Groundviews was the first website in Sri Lanka to visualise key statements by a Presidential candidate in the public domain. We followed up with a visualisation of Sarath Fonseka's manifesto. The ...