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Rising Representation, Rising Abuse: The Digital Battle Faced by Sri Lanka’s Women Politicians

Electoral Integrity CIR Web Editor -
By Shreen Abdul Saroor and Nabeela Iqbal The 2024 parliamentary and local authority elections in Sri Lanka marked a notable shift...

Warmer oceans, acidification endanger Sri Lanka’s maritime heritage

Environment & Climate Change CIR Web Editor -
By Malaka Rodrigo   Sri Lanka’s waters are home to over 200 shipwrecks, each holding a unique story of trade, war,...

Sweltering conditions put young lives and learning at risk

Environment & Climate Change CIR Web Editor -
By Malaka Rodrigo   Although the annual school sports events concluded without major incidents this year despite the rising heat, the...

The disastrous floods of Kalutara

Environment & Climate Change CIR Web Editor -
 BY Buddhika Samaraweera Climate change-related weather events prove to be an increasing challenge for most districts of Sri Lanka including...

How climate change impacts Sri Lanka’s dengue disease burden

Environment & Climate Change CIR Web Editor -
Three-year-old Nethmi Sehansa* from Dematagoda, a suburb of Colombo, succumbed to dengue in May 2023. Her parents and elder...

Rathugala adivasis struggle to preserve ‘bee honey harvesting’ amidst climate change

Environment & Climate Change CIR Web Editor -
By Kamanthi Wickramasinghe For Danigala Mahabandalage Suda Wannila Aththo, the incumbent leader of the Rathugala adivasi community, bee-honey harvesting is...

Civil society organizations urge president’s leadership to protect press freedom in Sri Lanka

Uncategorized CIR Web Editor -
In a joint letter to the president, 25 media rights-based organizations, media collectives and civil society organizations in Sri...

Sri Lanka requires policies to increase women’s representation in Parliament: Commissioner General of Elections

Events CIR Web Editor -
To increase women’s political representation at the parliamentary level, 51 % of the country’s population, several measures should be...

SERIES: Parliamentary Elections 2024 – Where have all the women gone?

Electoral Integrity CIR Web Editor -
As Sri Lanka prepares to elect parliament representatives, women candidates are conspicuous by their absence The main political parties in...

Holding Sri Lanka’s remand prisoners from voting  

Electoral Integrity CIR Web Editor -
By Sanuj Hathurusinghe Sri Lanka’s lack of an advance voting system will deprive over 20,000 remanded prisoners from voting in...

A Grave Matter Beyond a watery Meme

Electoral Integrity CIR Web Editor -
BY Buddhika Samaraweera Every monsoon season, the people of Ratnapura city and surrounding areas brace themselves for the inevitable: flooding....

Sri Lanka Presidential Elections 2024 – When over a million votes don’t count

Electoral Integrity CIR Web Editor -
By Pamodi Waravita COLOMBO – Seventeen million people are eligible to vote on September 21 to elect their next president....

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