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A workers’ rights group has alleged local apparel companies in the free trade zones (FTZs) are mistreating workers by forcing them to work extra hours and reducing allowances and bonuses, while the apparel sector employers have denied these allegations and claimed that the welfare of all workers (...)
Parents highlight difficulties which drive students to pick work over school
Children dropping out of school due to the impacts of the economic crisis seems to be a growing issue, with many parties claiming that parents find it difficult to bear the increased expenses of sending a child to (...)
Those who claimed that privatisation was the panacea for Sri Lanka’s economic ills had to present information about privatise institutions first, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake said on Wednesday at a conference on privatisation of state assets.
Dissanayake said (...)
We are a group of feminists writing to call urgent attention to the extra-constitutional attempts of the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) to suppress dissent. Lacking a popular mandate, hunting down student protestors and activists, including a LGBTIQ activist has become a central strategy of the (...)
A bill to amend sections 365 and 365A of the Penal Code with the aim of protecting the rights of the LGBTQ+ communities in Sri Lanka was handed over to President Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday (24) by MP and lawyer Premanath C. Dolawatte.
This bill to amend the Penal Code was submitted to (...)
Legal counsel for poet Ahnaf Jazeem who was included in the proscript list of individuals allegedly involved in terrorism and terrorism financing said that they condemn this undemocratic and arbitrary action of the authorities.
Speaking to The Morning, Attorney-at-Law Sanjaya Wilson Jayasekera (...)
Government’s plan to make Sri Lanka a zero poverty country, took the beating due to political and economical instability which led to the worst inflation in the island nation’s history
“When it comes to the mechanisms for relief, the current poverty alleviation program, namely Samurdhi, is used (...)
Public views on the aragalaya’s meteoric rise and contentious legacy, and how to move towards a more politically inclined beginning
The “RanilGoGama” (formerly “GotaGoGama”) protest site at the Galle Face Green, which was the face of the overall anti-Government and anti-President public movement (...)
Sri Lanka’s acute economic crisis and sovereign debt default, along with its people’s uprising in 2022, has drawn attention across the world. It is described as the ‘canary in the coal mine’, that is, a harbinger of the likely future for other global south countries. Eric Toussaint, spokesperson (...)
Protesters converged on Nugegoda yesterday heralding another wave in their campaign against the incumbent government which they say does not have a people’s mandate to rule.
This is expected to culminate in a countrywide protest in main cities and towns on August 9,
Unionists organised under (...)
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan protestors have rebuffed President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s suggestions for alternative agitation sites as the iconic GotaGoGama site is on track to be closed following a court order that came in the wake of the resignation of Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
Protestors say the (...)
Sri Lanka is continuing to spend a substantial amount of its earnings on interest payment on public debt this year, Finance Ministry data shows.
This will be a burden for the interim budget 2022 which will be presented in parliament next month in which the total expenditure is estimated to be (...)
A week has passed since schools reopened in Sri Lanka. However, the smooth running of schools is yet to be seen given a multitude of unsolved issues, mainly the lack of affordable transport services and the various socioeconomic crises that parents and school staff are facing.
Although the (...)
“If you don’t let us dream, I will not let you sleep”
– Placard written by a young person in Batticaloa
On 9 May 2022, the peaceful citizens’ protest in GotaGoGama in Galle Face was brutally attacked by mobs who came in buses, which was followed by the resignation of then Prime Minister Mahinda (...)
The removal of the Rajapaksa clan will not solve Sri Lanka’s deeply ingrained problem with corruption and the repression of dissent
I’m writing this on the morning of 22 July while watching footage from the early hours of this morning showing military and police assaulting protesters, (...)
Statement on the recent developments in Sri Lanka
Ranil Wickremesinghe, the discredited former Prime Minister hand-picked by the Rajapaksas, and now (s)elected as President by an illegitimate Parliament, has expectedly unleashed a brutal crackdown on the people’s movement of Sri Lanka. (...)
Sri Lanka is facing a severe political and financial crisis, with millions unable to afford food or medicine. Nationwide protests at the cost-of-living crisis culminated with the storming of the presidential palace in mid-July – and President Rajapaksa’s resignation. This is a crisis driven by (...)
How the #GoHomeGota movement was fueled through tech
Two years ago, COVID-19, first a pandemic, evolved into an infodemic with the involvement of technology. Likewise, this year, we see a series of protests become one big movement with technology at the heart of it all.
Be it downloading a (...)
Amid fuel and food shortages and fears of army raids, only a few ‘permanent protesters’ are holding fort at Colombo’s Galle Face. Since 13 July, there’s been no major protest.
Colombo: Less than a fortnight after massive protests drove former Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa from his palace (...)
Foreign capital flees poorer countries at the first sign of instability. The pandemic and Ukraine war ensure there is plenty of that around
This January, even before Sanjana Mudalige’s salary as a sales worker in a shopping mall in Colombo, Sri Lanka, was slashed in half, she had pawned her (...)
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